R.N.'S AUXILIARY RADIO

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 19

R.N.'S AUXILIARY RADIO

RESERVE

.... Though the.Boyal Naval Wireless Auxiliary Reserve has been in existence but little mote than a year, it has already established itself as a service of great national importance, says the London' <( Daily! Telegteph.'' It was organiI Bed for the purpose of providing a reserve .of competent wireless operators 1 vrho would, be. available in an emergency tojteinforce Wie,Navy's wireless staff. . , '"■'}. Thic 'E:ljr.WvA;E.> costs the . country practicallyio'thiug. Its members do not ree'eiye ahy-;pay or allowances, nor do they wear: uniform. They are simply .^roless.- enthusiasta .who ask nothing . better, than to place their technical skill . at the disposal of thqir-'country. Drawn from almost every walk in. life, they incl'Ade SCP.s| biis condu'etors, coalmincrs, solicitors,-, -bank;;'and- insurance clerks, mechanics, cinema operators, arid at least one clergyman. The only mark ■pf distinction is, a badge;-ivorn in the lapel, bcaring.a;wireless sign on a white ground'with a blue centre, On enroll--1 f.iiig in'the Wireless Reserve they have ,to_ sign ;.the following undertaking:— :.'■'Whenever I: receive .tlie\ mobilisation order I will join H.M.V Royal Navy at I the place and .-time ordered ... . and will : "serve in H.:M.\Navy:.;-for; -f.tli'e period of ' hostilities';in such rating -\of the tcle- | graphist branch-for which- I may be i fpand. suitable.--I undet'sjtantl that I I" shall- then become; subject/to the Naval \ Discipline Act."' i , The announcement -that a naval wire- ■ less reserve was being formed evoked an > immediate response. Ninety people volI unteered in the first batch, and the pre- , sent total is 310. Every district of ' Great Britain and Northern Ireland is \ represented. The whole question of the . -B.N.W.A'.K. 's future is to be- reviewed L -by the- Admiralty this month. I The training schedule in each case is | made sufficiently clastic to suit the eon- ' venience of the members,, who, as proI fessional or working men, have only | limited leisure. In the, event of mobilisation members I would be drafted to H.M. ships or wheI loss stations on shore, cither to'supple- . ment or to replace telegraphists of the I regular NVivy. I 'The existing IYA-masts in KarangaI nape JJoad, which have been a pioininj cnt landmark for a number of years, i will be dismantled, and the fransmitI ting^ plant will be reconditioned for use \ elsewhere in" the' Dominion; ',