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MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,
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28th March 1927.
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Dear Mr. Paskin,
As soon as I received your letter of the 18th March
with regard to the possibility of the Hong Kong Government
paying full salary for the voyage to a Board of Trade
Surveyor lent to their Marine Survey Department, I took
steps to find out whether this would make the temporary
post more attractive to the ship surveyors we consulted
as to willingness to go to Hong Kong. I considered, too,
whether we could get over the difficulty about loss of
increment, and loss of qualifying time for pension, by
limiting the period of loan to six months, and arranging
with the Hong Kong Government that the surveyor lent would
be paid from our Vote, the amount to be refunded by the
Hong Kong Government. I think a period of six months in
Hong Kong would be sufficient to enable a good ship surveyor
to organise the work there, and if Mr. Church is recruited
and trained here, there would only be a short interval between
the return of our officer and the arrival of Mr. Church as
a trained man.
J. Paskin, Esq.,
We have put the question to the Treasury, having
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