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REC REG 9 FEB 95

Starbour Master to Act. Col. Secretary.

Sir,

Starbour Department,

Hong Kong 7th January, 1895.

In reply to

your letter-

N. 25 of 5th January forwarding

extract from a

tary of

State

despatch of the Secre. for my report thereon,

I have the honour to

report

Cort that the

duties of the Assistant Government Marine Surveyor require a qualified Marine Engineer to perform them, Ky do principally in

consisting

bo

the Survey of Steam ships, and their Engines

ines and Boilers, and that as

these qualifications are not possessed

iin a

sufficient degree by the Assist.

aut Harbour Master the duties could

nos

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not be efficiently performed by him.

I have &c.

( s ? ) R. Murray Rumsey,

Harbour Master.

Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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