CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2] — Page 340

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.botimi!,ynequaŭ nordagival montƐ zaidə-obal

„ƏDEL CRIMELE L. „Died

abert le breed

si malá sa loob lain 19ân sátir

“qid of sommé až 200

¦riedt me soʻ

Yacht

edt îs ausitninger nisimo

Jonnno I umsitu ligger salimitang

að brwegen si

betnoititma

at eind baseË THAT

asiquil

eKitzat.

laced at the bottom of the list of junior Officers.

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Very few of these juniors have their Masters cer- ▶tificates, and they most strenuously object to being debarred from utting in their seatime by reason of the Board of Trade insisting on hem ranking as Supernumerary, and it is for this reason we are having serious trouble with the men, who, owing to the shortage of officers, bsolutely refuse to be ranked as such, preferring rather to leave the ompany and seek work elsewhere.

I instanced above that in my opinion these Regula- tions had na raison d'etre, and I speak with the experience of 20 jears as a Shéçmas ter,

If it is with the idea of giving the men experience hold that whereas a men may possess the technical knowledge suffi- cient for him to pass for Master, he never has the experience until e has acted as such, that any number of years serving as 2nd, Mate vàm youð aukale zill not give him that experience, and therefore the younger he is in dang vizellik klu ossession of his Masters Certificate the better, in order that he

ny gain that experience.

At the present moment the warning of our Merchant

vit z sal on shet? do kuggarins is vital to the Empire, and I think to that and the Board of

trade would be inelined to mitigate any vexatious point, more parti cu- larly in the light of the Circular referred to earlier in this letter for although officers may be doing as good service by continuing to an British Steamers as by joining the Services, I question whether he Board of Trade extend to Merchant Service Officers remaining in erchant vessels, the same facilities for obtaining their certificates

they do their colleagues serving with His Majesty's Fleet.

a kas

bat 2 kuung nă

átod as „bait of dan i11ib să măd? to? nonser set Ino iðnaði VIIsoldawną si İsor vind? ham wa002120 gnię

MGİSHEger smed? Ya secanssprango adi

IAI OTOM OʻLA

si ynoquoɔ yna zaintoj no mom a tndt avoirdo si di

• Tanqan drigin twill de ondt guns |

I suggest that Commander C. T. Beckwith, R.N., Chief Shipping Officer of the Part be invited to give his views the subject, and that the matter then be referred through His Fellen the Governor to the Board of Trade, who be petitioned:-

To do away with the title of "Supernumerary".

That a ship may carry as many Second Mates as is

cessary, and provided they have sole charge of a watch, and are

1 possession of a let. Mate's Certificate, so far as the Board of

be on Iq

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