APPENDIX PUT IN BY DR. MUIRHEAD.
AUTOMATIC CURB TRANSMISSION.
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PACIFIC CABLE COMMITTEE :
300 Knots of 500 cu.
890 Q.P.
No. 8.
Put in by Mr. Preece.
DETAILS OF SUBMARINE CABLES.
Capacities.
Ret" 12-5
43 letters per miu.
Weight of Core.
Capacity.
Ret" 12.5
Cable.
Manufacturer.
Gutta-percha.
Copper.
Fer Knot.
Specific.
50 letters per min.
Lowestoft-Borkum
Bacton-Borkum
Telegraph Conn.
140
107
-2933
286.0
Siemens
150
107
-2982
299-2
New Zealand
Siemens
150
107
-3490
350-2
G. P. Q. 8 core -
Siemena
150
107
-3172
318.2
Norwegian
Silvertown
150
107
•2988
299.8
Ret". 12.5
G. P. Ö. 4 core -
Henleys
150
107
-3330
334.1
Year.
International.
Outward
Mesanger (not inclu- ding Prem
Massage), Number.
No, 9.
Put in by Mr. Reeves.
NEW ZEALAND.
Press Messages,
International and Intercolonial.
57 letters per min.
Reta 12.5
66 letters per min.
Ret. 12-6
76 letters per min.
Value,
Outward Messages, Value. Massagen,
Number.
Inward
Value.
Number.
Ordinary Messages.
Value.
Intercolonial,
Outward Messages (not inclu- ding Press
Messages),
Number.
£
£
£
£
Reta 12.5
1888
1969
1890
4,422
98,099
16,806
10,878
1,044
1,460
1891 -
3,538
16,391
15,787
11,836
837
933
2,828
2,789
1992 -
9,930
11,880
15,758
11,577
791
898
2,884
9,796
83 letters per min.
1895
6,114
20,934
18,298
7,754
796
504
2.803
1,541
1894 -
5,968
91,481
28,750
7,584
994
699
8,083
1,180
1695 -
7,185
97,484
31,801
8,201
1,168
454
3,926
1,783
The decrease in number of International messages, 1891 and Y 1899, is no doubt due to messages being “packed" to Mel- bourne or Sydney, for onward transmission, in order to secure their lower rates,
N.B. The Intercolonial Cable Press Rate was reduced from Bd. to Id. per word on 1st April 1893,
No. 10.
Statement put in by Mr. W. H. Mercer.
The arrangements made between the Société Française des Télégraphes Sous-Marins on the one hand and the New South Wales and Queensland Governments on the other, are contained in the agreements quoted on the following pages.
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Ret. 12.5
90 letters per min.
Ordinary method of transmission 46.4 letters per minute.
3561 Knots 2% faster.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
C.O. 885
Reference :-
I.D.,W.O., No. 1203 b
Heliozincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1896.
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