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SWANSEA TELEPHONES. MAJOR CARDEW'S REPORT. BEFORE COURT OF APPEAL. OPPOSITE VIEWS OF IT. nailv (Special Telegram to the D y Corpora- London, Wednesday.— aii^e ^—T(!- tion v. The National justices day this case came before b01 C Vjzeu'i .Yaughan Williams, Stirling fcg~iv *-on Hardy in the Court of Appea' -or 1:. v: in relerence to the report of •* Court dew, vvruo had been appointed J jnter-coni- to ascertain the requirement aQ(] con- .The report having been Nation and the Ditmication between the OorP° ^-waiis^a- company's telephone systems a t.oped side red their lordships said sitting, "to be able to give judgment >»lr, ii. Mr. Buckmaster, K.L. ° ora,uon) 6s J. Parker appeared for the clilhculty that they found themselves 111 60111 tliey could in dealiug with the report, u? ^ueStions aris- ask Major Cardew a series ot 1 made this ing out of the answers giv^n- rt might not statement in order that thc without think the Corporation pa £ ^~t0 what were comment. The question was a to be given the proper facilities t.J:1a\ we In his report ior inter-commuoication' 't was now Major Cardew stated that, uoniC circuits common practice that all te j a return wire, should consist of a "line' ,ar' rw customary in place of using, as was for ,etmg the cir- a single lino wire, and w'c had in his cuit by means of the eal\y'bmitted by the answers to the questions s ciion circuit, Court, used the term J {0 delude two ■which must be understood cjr,uecJtecl wires properly erected a11^^ follows — Answer 1 of the report laitl between "Junction circuits &houId anj the Cona- the Corporation's exchang -.Between Cor- pany's exchanges as foliov-^ and Com- poration exchange at ISVi one junction cir- pany's exchange at Skew. circuits; be- cuit, Gorsemon two luft n(re at Morrison tween Corporation's ex^ Clydach one and Company's eX j„vo one junction junction circuit, Pontai. ^sii be all circuit. These junction ^ed for calls 'one way junctions, ) 6Ubscribers to the from the Corporation s 6 TheY may be .company's subscribers. £ ets, 0r erected j either enclosed in cao -way, partly in ["overhead, or partly ia the other." vrnitted that it was Mr. Buckmaster suDI^ in that answer v quite clear the Edification in order •.•wanted considerable too<i. "that it might be und j> "Whether the The second quest^nf ^miction wires be- laying down of of the Corpora- 'tween the several ^a°espectively at (I) ;tion and the g, au<i (3) Mormton. bwansea, proper faculties for the will afford a ,/telephonic messages between transmission o tlw (Company's system and ;:persons usics, Corporation's system m persons llslf°FvChange area," The answer the Swansea ^wa8;L««No further f^ties t0-n ^qreauired to provide for what may S»oSbly> as »Si"ds interoom- ^Wtetta, in order that ,j such proper facilities as aforesaid should be afforded, it is necessary that there should be provided junction circuits to directly connect the Corporation principal exchange in Swansea with each of the fol- lowing exchanges of the Company, viz., Swansea, Blackpill, Fiorestiach, Pontardu- lais, Pontardawe, Sketty, ballav, Gorsemon, Ciydach and Llansamkt, or and any ot which œ such places?" The answer was "At present junction circuits should be pro- vided to directly connect the Corporation principal exchange in Swansea mtn eacji of the following exchanges oi the Company viz- • Sketty and Gorseinon; additional junction circuits to other exchanges may oe reouired later, when the traffic has sufficien^ ;.ty increased." Mr. Buckmaster said that he attached Vgreat importance to that answer, because ''the judgment appealed from involved the •very question as to coming back to the Court when the traffic had sufficiently increased f- require further communications, such as I those the learned Judge directed. In answer to the fourth question as to whether any, and what, additional or other -DS ought to be ta.ken to aliord all proper fad'Hies, Major Cardew reported:—(a) The Corporation should make such arrangements S at Morriston as will best provide for calls from their subscribers to Clydach and Pon- i'tar da we by the junction circuits to be pre vided and their ^xating junction circuits io [ Morriston. (b) The junction circuits to be provided may pass through the company's exchanges at Swansea and Morriston respec- tively, but should not be brought to the switchboard :n those exchanges for operating purposes, (c) Besides the junction circuits specified above, which should be laid at once, additional junction circuits should be provided as and when required by the traffic as follows:—When the number 01 calls in any one hour from subscribers on the Corporation's system to an exchange on the Company s system not at present to be connected directly with the Corporation's system, has exceeded five on three or more occasions in one month, a direct junction circuit should be provided from one Corpora- tion exchange to the Company's exchange, and by this circuit the calls should be trans- mitted from the Corporation's system to the Ccmpany's exchange, (d) Similarly when tii'i number cf calls in any cue hour from subscribers on the Compaxiy s system to nn exchange on the Corporation's system has «J"ceeded the same limit a direct junction cir- cuit should be provided from one of the Company's exchanges to the Corporation's Exchange, and by this circuit the call shou d be transroitted from the Company's system, t) this exchange of the Corporation. (e) FlOro and after the time when one or more junction circuits have been provided *or the purpose of transmitting calls from the Corporation's system to any exchange on the Company's system or from the Com panv's system to any exchange on the Cor poration's system, all such calls should be no transmitted, and these junction circuits should be added to as may be required, to provide adequately for this service." Major Cardew added that should the above answers appear in any way incomplete, or shou'd I further information be required, he was en- tirely at their Lordships' disposal. Mr. Buckmaster, proceeding, said it was m> part of his duty to re-argue the case, which had already been heard at great length. Taking the report in the most un- favourable manner to his contention, it yet did not defeat the position the Corporation took 1 up before .Mr. Justice Buckley, and which they had maintained in the Court of Appeal. The Company demanded that the Corporation should lay wires Irom the Cell- fcri! Exchange to all the Company's sur, exchanges with wh'ch inter-commumcatbn vas necessiry. The answer to that was: "No, our system ha-s been constructed so that when :nter-communication takes placs our system is efficient, and will take t.be Y/hele* of the extra traffic without furth-a wires bavuig to be laid down." The report of Major Cardew justified everything the Corporation had said. b Mr. Astbury, K.C., for the Company, said they took p.n entirely different view of the report, which, he submitted, completely affirmed the Company's views as to infcer- Ct-mnjunication. Major Cardew absolutely disagreed with the judgment of the Court below. Mr. DaDckwerts, K.C., followed on the came side, and said his views coincided with Major Cardew's report. Lord Justice Vaughan Williams: I think wo understand your arguments. We are anxious, if we can, to deliver judgment thit- sitting.

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