§ MR. SOARES (Devonshire, Barnstaple)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he has yet received a reply from the Postmaster General, as to the advisability of connecting Braunton Lighthouse, in North Devon, with the telephone.
(Answer.) I have received a reply from the Postmaster General to the effect that the connection by telephone of Braunton Lighthouse with Braunton Post Office seems to him primâ facie desirable, and that the matter will be submitted to the Committee on Electrical Communications with Lighthouse Stations for their consideration. It appears, however, that the work cannot, in any case, be curried out immediately, as the whole of the funds provided by the Post Office for extensions of coast communication during the current financial year have already been allotted.—(Board of Trade.)