Pacific Cable Link Well Advanced
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Pacific territories are welcome to join in the Commonwealth roundthe-world telephone cable link, according to Mr. C. Housley, a member of the Australian Overseas Telecommunications Commission.
Mr. Housley, who visited Suva in February, is convenor of management committee of the project. The other partners are Cable and Wireless (England), the New Zealand Post Office and the Canadian OTC.
Mr. Housley said that when the project was completed Suva would
have a continuous service with the rest of the world. Pacific territories could link into the system at Suva, The Pacific section of the project, from Sydney to Auckland and then on to Vancouver, via Suva and Hon olulu, is due for completion by the end of 1963. The cost will be round about the £5tg.30,000,000 mark. The first section, between Sydney and Auckland will be open in June or July. Meanwhile cable-laying ships are working between Suva and Auck land and north of Suva.