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they would naturally have been concerned ly

with cargo ships whereas the staff at

Hong Kong has to deal with large passenger

carrying vessels. In that case such men

some

would, however, probably require a much

shorter period of training in this country

but probably to a much shorte's time than is recessary under the Board than would be required by

completely untrained candidates.

I have explained fully to Hole

the Colonial Office attitude as regards

retrenchees. He was inclined to think

that Engineers who had been employed

Nigeria

in the Marine for any considerable length

of time would have got out of touch with

developments and have become rusty. Such

men, he thought, would probably be less

acceptable to the Board of Trade for

training and less likely to turn out

first class Engineer Surveyors than

youngsters with no previous service who

.

have not, as it were, got beyond the

#1

school" age and are well up to date

in the come of

in