§ MR. LODER (Brighton)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade what light vessels have been or are being connected with the land by telegraph or telephone; whether all the shore, island, and pile lighthouses recommended by the Royal Commission on Electrical Communication have been so connected; and whether the experiment of connecting the Fastnet lighthouse with Crookhaven by a non-continuous cable has yet been carried out?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe work of connecting the Kentish Knock light vessel with the shore by telephone is now in progress. Lundy Island has been connected. Either the Tuskar or Gunfleet lighthouse will be put in hand at once, and my right hon. Friend the 457 Chancellor of the Exchequer has also authorised the connection of the Goodwin (North Sand Head) light vessel; all the shore lighthouses recommended except that at the Needles, which is now in hand, have been already telephonically connected with the land. The experiment of connecting the Fastnet lighthouse with Crookhaven by a non-continuous cable has not yet been carried out.