CO129-502-2 Recognition of passenger certificates- loan of a Marine Surveyor from the Board of Trade to... 6-1-1927 - 25-11-1927 — Page 72

TELEGRAMS: SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON, TELEPHONE: VICTORIA 8740.

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MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

20, GREAT SMITH STREET,

WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.

15th March 1927.

Dear Beckett,

In reply to your letter of the 14th March, with

regard to our official letter M.16165, with reference to

the Hong Kong survey staff, I may say, at the outset, that

cur reference to "ccndit icns regarding increment arose

out of the fact that, as the Treasury will not allow the

service of a Board of Trade Surveyor under the Hong Kong

Government to count towards superannuation, it is equally

impossible that it should count towards increment The

result is that the surveyors who considered the post were

alarmed at the prospect of being one increment,

i.e. £20

behind annually, owing to service in Hong Kong, apart from

the year not counting towards pension.

Dealing with the main point in your letter, I may

say I have consulted our technical officers, and find that

they consider the training and experience of Mr. B.H.Church

to be such as to make him a very suitable candidate for

training and appointment as Ship Surveyor at Hong Kong.

H. Beckett. Esq.,

I think it would be advisable now for him to

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