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admit to their Guilds officers who were in
nomins ally the habit of signing onChinese vessels at Re standard rate of
very low wages and on unsatisfactory condit- tions of service. All the better class of ships' officers on the coast recognised their duties to carry out the Piracy Regulations,
and it was curious that the Guilds had been
stampeded into their attitude of opposition by a minority of officers of this unsatis- factory type.
Sir E. Stubbs did not feel that he
was in a position to suggest how the Merchant Shipping Regulations could be amended to
produce the desired effect. He thought this was a matter for the Board of Trade.
The representatives of the Board of Trade, however, did not see any prospect of the Merchant Shipping Regulations being
amended.
Captain Bate asked whether it would
be possible for a "black list" to be prepared, and for the shipping authorities in Hong
Kong to refuse to allow men on the black list
to be engaged.
Sir E.Stubbs thought that while in theory this might work, it would be very
difficult to carry out in practice. Conditions
in the East are so different from what they
are in this country. Every member of the comparatively small European community is
known to almost every other member. It
would be extremely difficult to get a man
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