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2.
vacancies in the Association caused by the retirement
of three of the senior pilots.
4.
Article 60 of the Regulations for the Shanghai
Pilotage Service provides that the number of pilots on
the active list shall be not more than forty and not
less than thirty-five, and although, with a reduced volume of shipping to be dealt with, thirty-seven pilots
could adequately cope with the work, the Japanese urged
that the three vacancies should be filled forthwith,
and that they should be filled by Japanese nationals. For reasons connected with their internal working, and
into which I need not enter here, the Pilots' Association
were also anxious that their numbers should be brought
up to full strength.
5.
The manner in which vacancies in the Shanghai
Pilotage Service should be filled was the subject of
much controversy and negotiation during the years 1934- 1936, and the question has still not been settled to
the satisfaction of all concerned. On the 29th pril,
1935, the Senior Consul informed the Inspector-General
of Customs that, in the opinion of the Consular Body,
future vacancies should be filled on the basis of the
pilotage fees paid by the respective countries over a period of five years, e.g. if a vacancy ccurred when there were only ten British pilots, and the records of
the ssociation showed that the British shipping
companies had contributed 26 or over of the total
pilotage fees paid during the past five years, the
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