Telegrams " SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON."
Tel
pne-WHITEHALL 5140.
Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to :—
The Assistant Secretary,
Mercantile Marine Department (address as opposite)
nd the following number quoted :-
M. 15676/38.
Sir,
Aglands.
MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
13
LONDON, S.W.1.
June, 1939.
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With reference to your letter of the 24th May (No. 53712/5/38) regarding
the case of Chueng Kwai Wan (deceased) ex s. s. "Thorpeness", I am directed
by the Board of Trade to state for the information of Mr. Secretary MacDonald
ate, f
that they communicated with the owners of the vessel in the sense of the
dispatch from the Governor of Hong Kong dated 5th May
enclosed with your letter.
copy of which was
The owners have now replied to the Board enclosing a copy of a letter
dated 7th June addressed to them by their assessors, Messrs. E.R. Lloyd
and Company, from which it will be seen that they are not prepared to
increase the offer of an ex gratia payment of £25 to the dependants of the
Copy of this correspondence is enclosed for transmission
deceased seaman.
to the Governor.
A copy of a Notice No.M.85 on the application of the Workmen's
Compensation Act to those serving in the Mercantile Marine is enclosed for
your information, and I am to explain that any question of a claim for
payment under the Workmen's Compensation Act is one for settlement between
/the
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
S. W. 1.