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that examinations for granting certificates of competency to Marine Engineers should be established at Shanghai,

to be conducted

Examiners

by appointed by

the Wongkong Government,

I have the honour to

inform Your Lordship that, while corres

correspondence

with Her Majesty's Consul General at Shanghai leads me to believe that persons sompetent to serve

as

examiners

examiners could be

found

at that Port, I am advised

that there are

legal

difficulties in the way of the proposed arrangement. The power of the

2

Governor to appoint

a

Board to examine Candidates

for the certificates in question, is conferred by local Ordinance (the Merchant Shipping

a

Consolidation Ordinance 1879), and in the opinion of both

Mr.