§ 56. Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTEasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that it is of importance to firms having private telephone exchanges to ensure that confidential communications are not overhead by tapping at the switch-board; why he will only allow firms to employ a device for preventing tapping at the switch-board on one of their lines; and whether he will relax this rule in future?
§ Viscount WOLMEROwing to technical difficulties, it has hitherto been necessary to restrict the arrangement for cutting out the private exchange to one extension instrument. A new arrangement, which will allow of secrecy on all lines at the private exchange, is, however, under consideration.