["'Wireless' Equipment", The Argus (Melbourne), Friday 10 September 1909, page 5]
"WIRELESS" EQUIPMENT.
NO COMPULSORY EQUIPMENT.
London, Sept. 8.
The uncertainty as to the fate of the Waratah has led to the suggestion that an act be passed requiring the owners of all passenger vessels to equip them with wireless installations. A question on that subject was asked of Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, in the House of Commons yesterday. The Minister, in reply, said that he did not think that the time had come when the provision of wireless telegraphy should be made obligatory on passenger vessels, though he would be glad if it were more widely used.
notes:
07 sep 1909: regarding mandatory wireless, Churchill says 'not yet'
