§ MR. ASCROFT (Oldham)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he has received any information respecting the collision between the steamship "R. F. Matthews" and the East Goodwin Light Vessel; and whether, seeing that the men on the latter owe their rescue to their being able to send a message through Marconi's wireless telegraph system with which the lightship was fitted, the advisability of supplying all lighthouses and light vessels with a similar apparatus is being considered by the Board of Trade?
§ MR. RITCHIE (Croydon)said, I have not yet received on official report as to the collision between the steamship "R. F. Matthews" and the East Goodwin light vessel. As intimated in my reply to the honourable Baronet the Member for Cambridge on April 13, the possibility of adapting the wireless system of telegraphy to lighthouses and light-vessels is receiving careful consideration by the Board of Trade and other Departments interested.