CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932 — Page 4

addition to the master.

Say that in the absence

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of fresh Imperial legislation the Secretary of State is not disposed to suggest to the Governor of Hong Kong any modification of the existing Hong Kong law on this point, and invite attention to the reply of H.M. Government to the questionnaire circulated by the International Labour Office at Geneva regarding "the minimum requirement of professional capacity on the part of masters, navigating officers and engineer officers on merchant ships" printed in Geneva in 1931 as Report IV of the International Labour Conference, and in particular to the statement that "His Majesty's Govern-

ment think it unnecessary and undesirable to require

that fully certificated officers should invariably be in

charge of a watch on deck or the engine room on all

vessels without exception."

How Jamerson

14.5.32

I should prefer to give the substance of

paray (1) of 5 & toray

that it is not profmed.

to amend the tt. legislation

this

VtCalder

17.5-32

& To

To officius & edurations

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4 MAY 1932