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The launch now under construc. tion is intended to augment the transport facilities of Surveyors
SERVICE NEWS.
employed on ship work and the Recent Appointments
new launch asked for in the 1930 Budget for the G.M.S. Department is intended for the use of the two Nautical Surveyors
The launches allocated to the Boarding Office and Junk Office are fully employed and cannot be spared for work with the G.M.S Office.
New Launch for Carriage of
Stores and Relief.
At present when stores arrive out from England there is no Government launch available for landing such stores and it becomes necessary to hire a launch for this purpose.
Government have normally a fleet of 38 craft each one of which is allocated for special duty, and in addition one launch is under I construction.
When certain of these launches become due for overhaul or should they break down it becomes neces- sary to hire launches to take their place.
It is considered more economical to build a Government Launch for these purposes of landing P.W.D. Stores and of Relief work, than to continue the hiring of outside -unches at an average tariff of $25 per diem, Coal oil and Stores, being provided by Government.
The Kau Sing.
It has been suggested by the Hon. Senior Unofficial Member that the "Kausing" could perform, this duty. This would be most uneconomical. To keep the "Kau- sing" under steam at half ani hour's notice during non-typhoon weather would cost approximately an additional $30,000 per annum. . If she was employed three days a
week it would cost yet another! $20,000, or $50,000 per annum in all. The estimated initial cost of the new launch asked for is $40, 000 and it is estimated that her fuel and stores, etc., will cost approximately $5,000 per annum, so that the total cost for the first year would be $45,000. From this Hon. Members will see that to to run the "Kausing" for this duty would cost more in one year than :the initial cost of the proposed new launch plus one year's ex- penses for fuel and stores.
and Orders.
THE EAST INDIES.
Fuller-
Rear-Admiral Eric J. A. ton, C.B., D.S.O., M.A., whose selection to be Commander-in- Chief, East Indies Station, was announced in The Times on May take up his appointment in the s.s. 25 last, will proceed to Colombo to Mooltan, in which he will embark at Marseilles on November 22. He succeeds Vice-Admiral Bertram S. Thesiger, C.B., C.M.G., on board the Effingham. Rear-Admiral Ful- lerton is at present Naval Secretary to the First Lord, in which post he will be relieved on September 16 by Rear-Admiral G. K. Chetwode, C.B., C.B.E., promoted last year.
New Navy List Distinction. In October, 1925, reduced rates of pay for new entrants into the Royal Navy and Royal Marines were introduced. For the purpose of enabling accountant officers to distinguish readily officers entitled to the old rates of pay from those entitled to the new, it has been decided to insert in the seniority lists in the Navy List a distinguish- ing symbol against the names of officers who are eligible to receive pay under the old scale. The ranks in question are:-Midshipmen, act- ing and confirmed sub-lieutenants, lieutenants, midshipmen (E), acting and confirmed sub-lieutenants (E) and lieutenants (E), paymaster sub-lieutenants, paymaster lieuten- ants, chaplains, instructor lieuten- ants, temporary instructor lieu- tenants, and lieutenants R.M. The symbol will remain against rank or seniority for and beyond officers' names until they reach which no new rates of pay are laid down. For example, the symbol against the names of acting sub- lieutenants will remain during the whole of their service as lieutenant, but will cease to be shown when the rank of lieutenant-commander is reached.
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Pay of Navy Writers. Current Fleet Orders record the decision to establish the new rat- ings of writer probationer
and The Hon. Senior Unofficial Mem- supply probationer, R.N., which ber stated in his speech:-"In-
was approved by an Order cidentally we are informed that Council on June 8 and announced the staff of the G.M.S. Department in The Times on June 24. The new has grown to such dimensions that grades have the relative rank of it seems doubtful whether there ordinary seaman and pay
at the is sufficient Shipbuilding and ship rate of 2s. 6d. a day. Future en- repair work now going on in the tries in the writer and supply Colony to keep them all fully em-branches, other than those entered ¡ployed."
from Greenwich Hospital School as
In 1927 at the instance of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., and other local firms, in or-
This Vote will not be annually recurrent and will cease as soon as the training of the present Staff has been completed.
New Candidates to fill vacancies caused by resignations, etc., how- ever will require to be trained from time to time before coming out to the Colony.
Allowances to 17 Diesel Engineers at $120 each.
It has been found from practical experience since semi-Diesel engines were introduced into Government launches that as soon as an engineer had been trained into the working of these Engines he became dis- satisfied with the Government rates of pay. Several such Engineers have already resigned from Gov-; ernment service in order to take up employment with private firms on higher rates of pay. The allowance as set forth is designed as an in- ducement to such Engineers to remain in Government Service.
S.D.3.
After the sinking of S.D.3. Government appointed a Com- mittee consisting of the Treasurer, the Harbour Master, and the Colonial Auditor to consider what steps should be taken in order to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.
The recommendations of this Committee have been embodied in a General Order which it is hoped will have the desired effect. (Applause.)
LAW MATTERS.
Factory Legislation Under Consideration.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
The Hon. said:
Attorney General
The Hon. Mr. Shenton referred in his speech last Thursday to the subject of factory legislation. This question has for some time been under consideration by the Govern- ment. A bill to amend the Indus- trial Employment of Children Ordinance, 1922, Ordinance No. 22 of 1922, so as to extend its scope to women and young persons, and certain regulations proposed to be made under the Ordinance as so amended, have already been draft- ed, and are now under consideration! by the Governor in Council. This t proposed legislation is intended to! be a further step in the improve- ment of factory conditions in the Colony. Such improvement must of necessity be slow and gradual, and it is very difficult in such matters to travel far ahead of neighbouring countries. It is in- tended to follow up this legislation. with other measures.
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