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Merchant Shipping Ordinance of 1899, the existing
provisions of which are considered out of date and
totally inadequate to the requirements of present day local
shipping circumstances. My Committees suggest that the
provision therein defined be modernised by re-drafting
such in line with those not ed by the attached as mutually
agreed upon by shipowners and officers representatives at
Home.
Such progressive response by Government will
introduce a long overdue and much needed measure of reform
which will ensure a greater security for life and property
at sea where the foreign-going shipping of this Colony is
concerned.
I have, etc.,
(SD.) ". . KIRBY,
F.
Secretary.
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Extract from South China Morning Post, Thursday, October 8, 1936.
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DECK OFFICERS.
Agreement Reached at The English Conference.
IN MERCHANT VESSELS.
Negotiations between the ship-owners' and officers'
representatives on the Navigating Officers' Panel of the
National Maritime Board with regard to the number of
navigating officers to be carried on British foreign-going
merchant vessels have been completed.
An agreement was reached which will come into force
in the case of ships' articles opened on or after October 1. It requires two certificated navigating officers in addition to the master to be carried on foreign-going vessels exceeding 700 tons gross but not over 2,500 tons gross, and three certificated navigating officers in addition to the master on foreign-going vessels exceeding 2,500 tons gross. It was agreed that there should be further early negotiations in this country with regard to conditions of employment both on vessels covered by the new agreement
and on home trade vessels.
The officers' representatives made it clear that in accepting an agreement which fell short of their own proposals it must be understood that they were keeping themselves free to make whatever proposals they thought desirable at the Geneva Maritime Conference this month. As regards the part of the agreement permitting a minimum of two officers to be carried on certain vessels the officers' representatives stated that they were accepting
this
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