addition to the master.
Say that in the absence
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of fresh Imperial legislation the Secretary of State is not disposed to suggest to the Governor of Hong Kong any modification of the existing Hong Kong law on this point, and invite attention to the reply of H.M. Government to the questionnaire circulated by the International Labour Office at Geneva regarding "the minimum requirement of professional capacity on the part of masters, navigating officers and engineer officers on merchant ships" printed in Geneva in 1931 as Report IV of the International Labour Conference, and in particular to the statement that "His Majesty's Govern-
ment think it unnecessary and undesirable to require
that fully certificated officers should invariably be in
charge of a watch on deck or the engine room on all
vessels without exception."
How Jamerson
14.5.32
I should prefer to give the substance of
paray (1) of 5 & toray
that it is not profmed.
to amend the tt. legislation
this
VtCalder
17.5-32
& To
To officius & edurations
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4 MAY 1932