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C.S Retriver (4,000 tons) laid the shoe-end section of the Auckland/Sydney and Auckland/Suva sections of the Commonwealth Pacific Cable, which stretches from Vancouver in Canada to Sydney in Australia via Suva and Auckland in NZ.
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Engineers from the Plymouth Area THQ Marine Branch landing a shore-end at Porthcurno (Cornwall) from the cable ship Monarch.

C S RETRIVEVER (4000 tons) laid the shore end sections of the Aukland - Sydney and Sydney - Suva sections of the Commonwealth Pacific cable, which stretches from Vancouver to Sydney via Suva and Aukland.
Seen off Muriwai beach.

Britains Ocean Telegraph Cables fan out into the Atlantic from the sandy beach of Porthcurno, a Cornish cove near Land's End. These cables, which are linked with the 155,000-mile network owned by Cable & Wireless Ltd., are operated from the company's…

Cable & Wireless buildings in Porthcurno, with corn in the field in the background.

CABLE AND WIRELESS BUILDINGS

PRINT OF PART OF SCAPE 8.062

Butter Market Princes Street opposite the Masonic Hall Penzance slide scratched. Butter and Vegetable Market built 1844 and demolished for site of the Telephone Exchange

Market for Butter Eggs Meat & Poultry

Butter Market,Princess street, Penzance.
now demolished