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CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT TELEGRAM FROM MINISTERS (AKROSPACE AND SHIPPING)
TO GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG
HONG KONG SHIPPING REGISTER
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While they
The visiting team has now reported back to me. believe it would be possible to establish a separate register with standards equivalent to those of the UK register, they consider it essential to make a significant change in the arrangements discussed earlier for certificating alien officers on fiong Kong ships.
2. The team found that no reliance could be placed on foreim certificates which have often been acquired other than by training and examination. Practical knowledge and experience can be reasonably well tested orally: about half the officers seen satisfied our tear in these respects on the basis of the somewhat limited interviews that the team conducted. But general education and knowledge of basic principles of navigation and engineering are very difficult to assess in this way and generally appeured to be deficient; basic knowledge can be vital in an emergency. We have reluctantly concluded that it would be most unsatisfactory to rely on an oral examination alono dex granting Hong Hong certificates and that written tests would be necessary to ensure maintenance of st ndarde.
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