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This Colony is frequently visited, at

this season, by typhoons of great severity, as witness the year 1923 when there were six in seven weeks, culminating in the one of August 18th, in which were many fatalities and much loss of property. This matter also has received much attention by the present

Officer.

The professional head of the Department which deals with these matters is, naturally, the Harbour Master, and, for the efficient discharge of his very important duties, it is of the first importance that he should possess every available atom of local experience, have a perfect knowledge of all the available means, permanent, emergency, tentative and even half formed ideas of others, to enable him to devise, on the spur of the moment, the most efficacious means of checking the one and minimising the

effects of the other.

We submit with the utmost deference and

deepest conviction that Lieutenant Commander W.Conway Hake,R.D.,R.N.R., F.R.G.S., the present Acting Harbour Master possesses these qualities in a very marked degree, and the following extract from Hong Kong

1923

Government Civil Service List will serve to make the

contention more evident:-

HAKE, Walter Conway, R.D.,

Lt.Commander, R..R., F.R.G.S.,

Younger Brother of Trinity House..

Assistant Harbour Master, £700 to £900 by £20.

£550 1920

June 1st Acting Assistant Harbour str Aug.29th Assistant Harbour Master. 1921 Feb.10th Acting Harbour Master.

£575

Aug.29th

+1

Dec.13th Resumed duty as Assistant £720 1922 Apl.20th to Nov.26th Half Pay Leave

Harbour Master

(commuted)

£740

Aug.29th

£760 1923 Aug.29th

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