CO129-472 - Others - 1921 — Page 381

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GENERAL REPORT

SAMPAN BOATS (continued).

unless they have:-

(a)

A permit from the Harbour Master.

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(b) They are exempted persons".

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Under exempted persons" would be included wives and families of officers and men; passengers and their friends.

We understand that the water police would have to be strengthened but that in the opinion of the responsible authorities much might be done if the Colonial Government wished to limit the access of women to ships.

We recommend that a Committee be appointed by the Governor on which the Attorney General, the Harbour Master, the Chamber of Commerce and the Medical Department would be represented, to consider what practical steps could be taken to protect officers and crews of the mercantile marine from exposure to infection from women boarding ships.