Description
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.
This picture shows the workmen, who have just laid the cable a prepared ditch in the sand which leads to the cable room on the beach, and from there to the terminal building at Paddington.