REPAIRING CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 8

REPAIRING CABLES

STEAMER'S DIFFICL'LTIES.

‘ HAMPERED BY GILES. TWO SEAMEN INJURED. (Ry Telegraph—Press Association.) .\I'CKLAND. Tuesday. The cable steamer Recorder. formerly the Iris. returned to Auckland this morning. “'hen Ishe left here on December 3 she went to Newcastle for coal and later to Sydney where she signed on a crew 01‘ Malay seamen and Chinese stokers. sailing on January 9 to repair a break in .\O. '2 Tas—man cable, which touches the shore at Muriwai Beach, Auckland. Three weeks‘ cruising in the Vicin—ity of the supposed line of cable, often in rough weather. failed to reveal the “hereabouts and the Recorder returned to .\‘ewcam'tle for roal and then repaired the Perm—Adelaide cable near Fremantle. returning to Sydney and sailing on March 30 in an efiort again to pick up the Tasman rable. Gale alter gale interrupted the operations hut m‘entuall)~ the cable. was located seven miles north of where it had been laid. '

mu, ...”. Mm. Four times srapnels seized the cable but each tune Hwy broke away. Aflm' neariy a umnlh at 56a, having had unly seven working days. the cable is

still unrepaired and the Recorder had to return to Sydney owingvto an acci—dent in which mo oi' the Malay crew were injured when a cable sprang suddenly taut. and struck them across lhe face, hurling them backwards to the deck. The). are suffering from «severe- head injuries. Captain Foy proceeded at full speed and arrived at Sydney next day. One patient had by then practically recovered and the other was admitted to hospital with severe head and facial injuries. Later he will be repatriated to Singapore. The Recorder is expected to sail at thefiveek—end for .\‘oriolk Island to repair the-Pacific cable and later will repair the Cook Strait cable.