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that examinations for granting certificates of competency to Marine Engineers should be established at Shanghai,
to be conducted
Examiners
by appointed by
the Wongkong Government,
I have the honour to
inform Your Lordship that, while corres
correspondence
with Her Majesty's Consul General at Shanghai leads me to believe that persons sompetent to serve
as
examiners
examiners could be
found
at that Port, I am advised
that there are
legal
difficulties in the way of the proposed arrangement. The power of the
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Governor to appoint
a
Board to examine Candidates
for the certificates in question, is conferred by local Ordinance (the Merchant Shipping
a
Consolidation Ordinance 1879), and in the opinion of both
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