HC Deb 02 July 1928 vol 219 c965
32. Sir ROBERT HAMILTON

asked the Postmaster-General the yearly cost of maintaining the wireless communication between Sanday and North Ronaldshay, in Orkney, and the estimated cost of installing a similar service between Lerwick and the Skerries, in Shetland.

Viscount WOLMER

The exact cost of maintaining the wireless installation between North Rondaldshay and Sanday cannot be stated without further inquiry, but is probably in the neighbourhood of £120 per annum. The apparatus is of an old type, and a similar system would not now be installed elsewhere. I will have inquiry made as to the cost of establishing a wireless service between Lerwick and the Skerries by means of modern apparatus, and will communicate the result to the hon. Member.