BROADCAST AND BEAM

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1928, Page 12

BROADCAST AND BEAM

—— / QUESTIONS IN COMMONS SERVICE' TO DOMINIONS (A.P.A. -and "Sun/) (Received Bth March, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 7th March. In the House of Commons, Mr. Baldwin, in answer to questions, said that after a. consultation of party leaders in 1926, it was concluded that there •was a preponderating opinion against broadcasting Parliamentary proceedings. He did not believe that this opinion had substantially changed, and therefore he did not propose to appoint a committee of inquiry into the subject. " » . i .: The Postmaster-General, Sir William Mitchell Thomson, in answer to a question, said that the beam wireless stations in /Britain had been constructed by Marconi's under an" agreement providing for the payment by tho Government of a lump sum, and also a royalty of 6J per cent, on all receipts so long as the stations contained valid Marconi patents. ■ , . The messages sent or received via tho beam for the week ended 26th February numbered: To India, 15,182; to South Africa, 8516; to Australia, 7130; ■ to Canada 46.86. Statistics of traffic over the cable routes were unavailable, but it was evident that the total of cable and wireless traffic with the Dominions was now considerably greater than prior to the beam services.