When were the first telephone cables laid in PNG?

Trevor
06/10/2016

In 1907 the first cable was laid on Woodlark Island in Milne Bay Province connecting Bonagi and Kulumadau. In the same year the German administration laid cable between Rabaul and Herbertshoe (now Kokopo) in East New Britain. During the Second World War the Australian Army installed a 152 mile single line telephone cable from Port Moresby to Kokoda along the Kokoda Trail / Track.

 

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