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engineer with the necessary assistants and a
Harbour Master without any extraneous duties.
It should not involve, on the whole, any
staff increase to the present Government
establishments, for, as the Trust would
merely be taking over duties now performed by
the Government, all that it should mean would
be a transfer of staff, which should not be a
real difficulty if the staff were guaranteed
no worse terms and conditions than they now
enjoy. The superannuation might present a
difficulty, but seeing that the staff entered
the Government service in the first instance,
it would only be fair for the Government to
assume the responsibility for the
superannuations.
(1) The Trust to regulate its own procedure, with the
proviso that a quorum at any meeting should be
four, but no Trustee to be allowed to vote on any
question directly affecting his own or his firm's
business.
(j)
Note.
This is common form.
The policy to be adopted by the Trust to be that of
seeing that adequate and proper facilities are
available in the Harbour for ships and their
cargoes, but to allow approved private
enterprise to provide these facilities, as far
as possible, and also let private enterprise do
its own "operating".
Note. I would strongly recommend this line of
policy, having regard to the conditions in
Hong Kong. It would mean that the leases of the existing piers would be renewed and new