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reserved to the Government Marine Surveyor to examine a launch
at any time should he have grounds for considering this to be
necessary. Also Government might at its discretion grant
recognition to certificates issued by firms of private
surveyors in respect of launch surveys.
12. The Commissioners were struck by the inadequate scale
of the fees charged for ship surveys of various kinds. Whilst
they do not consider that it should be the policy of Government
to make a profit out of the Government Marine Surveyors'
department, they do consider that the fees charged should bear
some relation to the cost of running the department. With
this recommendation it is understood the Harbour Mastor
agrees. To do this it will be necessary to price cost the
department, this the Harbour Master should undertake under
expert Treasury supervision,
fix the fees proportionately.
and the Government should then
Where work is done for far eign
non local firms the fees should be sufficiently high to
ensure that the cost of the services rendered will be more
than covered.
13. It may be that the Yaumati Slipway constitutes an
econany;
the Commissioners considered the point at length,
but in the absence of any comprehensible figures were unable
to come to a conclusion.
Office should be price costed, and then a decision arrived at,
as to whether (a) the slipway hould not indeed be enlarged
to take all Government launches, and to undertake machine
repairs, or alternatively, (b), be closed entirely except
for such accommodation as is needed for stores. It cannot
be economic to play at repair work. Either all Government
launches should be wholly repaired at the slipway or no
repairs be undertaken at all.
This sub-division of the Harbour