CO129-573-1 Vacancy for Deputy Shipping Master in Mercantile Marine office of the Harbour Department 13-4-1938 - 18-1-1939 — Page 16

No.716.

تميم

mp Bojhela

يسمر

Sir,

16

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

23rd September, 1938.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your despatch No.262 of 17th August, 1938, regarding

a forthcoming vacancy in the post of Deputy Shipping

Master in the Mercantile Marine Office of the Harbour

Department.

2.

The duties of the Deputy Shipping Master do not include such duties as inquiring into casualties, which are dealt with by the Harbour Master himself sitting in

a Marine Court. Nor has the Deputy Shipping Master any responsibilities for determining what course was followed

by a vessel on a voyage: such work would fall to the

Chief Boarding Officer.

The duties of the Deputy

Shipping Master may be enumerated as follows:

(i) To see that Ship's Articles are opened and

closed correctly.

(ii) To take charge of and administer deceased

seamen's effects.

(iii) To deal with distressed British seamen.

(iv) To keep the Board of Trade accounts and render

them quarterly.

(v) To deal with accounts regarding national

health and pension insurance.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M. P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.