CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4] — Page 139

According to the Harbour Master's unfort

(when the question of pilots was first mooted, in 1903, it was decided that licences should be issued only to Europeans, as has

again been suggested. After a trial lasting for

a year or two, it was found that the pilots were barely able to make a living with the fees as laid down in the regulations, and the Chamber

of Commerce complained that the fees were too high tating that they wished the Chinese pilots to return. Chinese were then allowed to present Hemselves for exan, as pilots, provided that

they were British subjects, and, as more Chinese pazzZZNÉZZEKRİXRA

passed and received their licences, they gradually

ousted the Europeans who charged the legal fees,

by underselling then. The last of the uropean pitatzZSŻKAPpZAKO

pilots disappeared last year, and now there

none but Chinese.

4. The Harbour M.ster sees no reason to

suppose that history will not repeat itself should a European pilot service again be established, as the pilots will not be able to

earn a livelihood, especially with the increased

cost of living now prevailing, unless the pilotage fees

are largely angiented; and should the fees be raised,

there we at once be an outcry, and the Chaaber

of Commerce again advocate the retum of Chinese,

5. In these circumstances the S. of S. Lees

Lo reason to take any action in the matter.

(Signed) G. CRINEL

Gor. Pliables

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