Phone cable laid across strait

The new inter-island telephone cable is hauled ashore at Lyall Bay, Wellington from Government steamship Tutanekai. — Otago Witness, Issue 3760, 6 April 1926, Page 42 Wellington, March 26: At 9 o'clock this morning the final touches were put to the splicing of the new Cook Strait telephone cable and at a point a little distance from Blind River the last loop of the joined-up line was dropped over the bows of the Tutanekai, the government cable-laying steamer. As it disappeared in the sea cameras clicked and the weary, but happy, cable-laying staff heaved sighs of relief that the biggest job yet attempted by the New Zealand Telegraph Department had been carried through without a hitch.

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