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they would naturally have been concerned ly
with cargo ships whereas the staff at
Hong Kong has to deal with large passenger
carrying vessels. In that case such men
some
would, however, probably require a much
shorter period of training in this country
but probably to a much shorte's time than is recessary under the Board than would be required by
completely untrained candidates.
I have explained fully to Hole
the Colonial Office attitude as regards
retrenchees. He was inclined to think
that Engineers who had been employed
Nigeria
in the Marine for any considerable length
of time would have got out of touch with
developments and have become rusty. Such
men, he thought, would probably be less
acceptable to the Board of Trade for
training and less likely to turn out
first class Engineer Surveyors than
youngsters with no previous service who
.
have not, as it were, got beyond the
#1
school" age and are well up to date
in the come of
in