CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892 — Page 126

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sir,

RECO

C. O.

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The only

Board of Trade,

REG 22 FEB 32

(Marine Department),

London,S.W.

20th.February, 1892.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the

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receipt of your letters of the 15th.ultimo and 8th.instant

transmitting respectively an Ordinance passed by the Legis-

lature of Hong Kong to consolidate and amend the laws relat-

ing to Merchant Shipping in that Colony, and a telegram

inquiring whether Table A Class III, Rule (d), of the Life-

saving Appliances Rules was essential.

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In reply, I am to state for the information of Lord

Knutsford that the Board are hardly in a position to judge

what modification can properly be made in the Life-saving

Appliances Rules issued by the Board of Trade in order to

make them suitable to the peculiar conditions of Hong Kong and

that they have no objection to offer to the Ordinance being

allowed to come into operation in its present form.

I am, however, at the same time, to observe that it

seems doubtful whether when the Ordinance was drawn up the

Governor was provided with the latest editions of the Life-

saving Appliances Rules and of the Board of Trade Regulations

as

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.