§ Flight-Lieutenant Beswickasked the Assistant Postmaster-General if he is now able to return the radio transmitters taken from amateur operators at the beginning of the war for security reasons.
§ Mr. Collinsasked the Assistant Postmaster-General when he proposes to issue 744W licences for amateur radio transmission; and when, and under what conditions, he proposes to return transmission sets and instruments to the 60,000 owners who surrendered them in 1939.
§ Mr. BurkeIt is intended to begin returning amateur wireless transmitting equipment in about a fortnight's time; this will, however, involve a considerable amount of work and may take some weeks. The military authorities hope to be able to release within the next two or three weeks a limited number of frequencies for amateur working; the conditions under which these sets may be operated is under consideration and licences will be issued as soon as possible after frequencies have been released.