WIRELESS FOR PRISONS
THE total amount so far subsclibed to the fund which The Spectator is raising for the.supply of wireless receiving sets to various convict and other prisons is a little over £130, and a beginning has now been made with the provision of the sets. A few prisons already have sets, the result in most cases of private gifts, and in them the value of such an installation has been abundantly demonstrated. During the past week orders have been placed with Pye Limited, of Cambridge, for the supply of QPB and QP.AC sets (according to whether electricity is available for the all-main set), and sets are in process of dispatch to the following prisons in England : Bristol, Durham, Liverpool, Manchester, Holloway and Parkhurst, and to Peterhead, Barlinnie and Saughton in Scotland.
This is, of course, only a first list. As to the number of further installatiOns, that will depend on the extent to which readers of The Spectator are prepared to co-operate financially in the scheme. There are still a considerable number of prisons where a wireless installation would be warmly wel- comed. The following subscriptions have to be acknow- ledged in addition to those mentioned in last week's Spectator : £5 : John Grubb.
£2 2s. each : Miss Delia Ashworth, Derek Verschoyle, Miss Mary Chick.
Li is. each - L. A. Benham, the Rev. W. Aden Wright, Dudley W. A. Sommer, the Rev. A. L. Watt (second donation), Miss F. 0. Vaughan, Anonymous.
£i each : Mr. and Mrs. Porter, Miss Molly Challoner, Miss Carver, Miss M. K. Callender, Anonymous (Westmorland).
los. each : Miss I. H. M. Butler, H. M. Stack, the Misses Gilfillon. Sums less than zos. : Miss Pratt, Mrs. W. H. Best, Miss E. Constance Priestman, H. S. B., John S. Craig, Anonymous, the Rev. H.
Kennedy, K. H., Miss K. M. Wilson.
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