Saving.
54337/48.
From the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
To he Officer Administering the Government of....HONG KONG.
13
January, 1949.
35
No..
Saving.
Your savingram No.543.
Harbour craft.
1. In the course of discussion the Ministry of Transport have pointed out that in addition to the craft included in the list accompanying your despatch No.19 of the 30th January 1948, for which the Ministry of Transport are the disposal authority, there are also in use by the Hong Kong Government certain other craft belonging to, or at one time belonging to, the Admiralty and the war office.
2. These other craft were included (as well as Ministry of Transport craft) in lists submitted by the Director of Marine (then Harbour Master) Hong Kong to the Ministry of Transport in 1947. The total valuations for the craft given by the Director of Marine on those lists
were:-
Ministry of Transport
Admiralty
War Office
£143,950
£180,850
£52,400
3. It appears that, as a result of correspondence with the Ministry of Transport, one vessel (VIC 41) was transferred from the Admiralty list to the Ministry of Transport list and six vessels (MINTOON D.P. Nos. 6 and 10 and MINHOP Nos. 2, 3, 10 and 17) were transferred from
the