WIRELESS LICENCES
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am writing to inform you that I have given notice that I intend to ask the Postmaster-General whether he will consider the possibility of allowing wireless licences to be paid for in four quarterly instalments of 2s. 6d. each in the case of families where the wage earner-is unemployed. In the enforced idleness that is the unhappy lot of so many unemployed, the wireless set has become a great boon, and in a huge and scattered 'constituency like my own (Wrekin, Shropshire) where other facilities for entertainment are few this matter is,
believe, of considerable importance.
The payment of 10s. in a lump sum is almost beyond the reach of many, and some such arrangement as the above would not only be of real advantage to the unemployed but would I believe, also have a good effect from the revenue point of view in counteracting the evasions that are likely to become more widespread.—I am, Sir. &c.,
House of Commons. M.P., Wrekin.
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