Telegrams: SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON. Telephone: WHITEHALL 5140.
MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,
M. 9807/38.
BOARD OF TRADE,
Y
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1
29th July, 1938.
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Dear Gent,
I am sorry I have not been able to send you an earlier
reply to your letter of the 9th June transmitting a copy
of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the
filling of the post of Deputy Shipping Master in the local
Mercantile Marine Office, but the delay has been due to
difficulty in tracing the previous correspondence relating
to the post and to our endeavours to ascertain what are the
duties of the officer appointed to it.
We have, however, now been furnished by your
on 33797/34 Department with a copy of the despatch from Hong Kong of
the 3rd April 1934 in regard to the appointment of a
Deputy Shipping Master in 1934, and I see that it was then
considered necessary, in view of the duties which were to be
thrown on the Deputy Shipping Master by the application to
the Colony of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Safety and Load
Line Conventions, that he should possess a Master Mariner's
Certificate.
We are not fully aware of the duties attaching to this
/post
G.E.C. Gent, Esq.,