INTER-ISLAND 'PHONE.
AUC'KLAND-DUNEDIN CONNECTION. SCHEME TO COST £IOO,OOO. ay Telegraph.—Press Assoclntlol Dunedin, Last Night. Mr. E. A. Shrimpton, Chief of the Telegraph Department, leaves for London shortly, and part of his business will he to make final arrangements for the purchase of a submarine cable and apparatus to connect the North and South Island by telephone.
It will thus be possible for South Island centres to communicate with Wellington or Auckland by telephone, or vice versa. Mr. Shrimpton explains that this work is n large and costly one. The cable will weigh some fifteen tons per nautical mile, and the cost will not he less than £IOOO a mile. As the distance is about sixty miles, the total capital east, including the apparatus and the cost of laving, will easily absorb the bust unit of £ 100.000
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1920, Page 5
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136INTER-ISLAND 'PHONE. Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1920, Page 5
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