§ MR. DOUGHTY (Great Grimsby)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether, seeing that Dover is now a wireless telegraph station under the coastguard, he will take steps to have the East Goodwin Light-vessel fitted up with the necessary apparatus for life-saving information, in view of the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Electrical Communication.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour). The Board of Trade are fully alive to the importance of this question, and they have made efforts to bring about an arrangement for the transmission of information by wireless telegraphy from the East Goodwin Lightship. Their efforts have not so far been successful, however, as the terms upon which the use of wireless telegraphy apparatus should be allowed have not yet been settled between His Majesty's Government and those interested in the invention.