CO129-573-1 Vacancy for Deputy Shipping Master in Mercantile Marine office of the Harbour Department 13-4-1938 - 18-1-1939 — Page 2

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occur in Port of Deputy Shipping Master. Regste approval to appoint w. R. Hillyer.

The Governor proposes to appoint to the

post of Deputy Shipping Master an officer whose

confidential reports are extremely satisfactory

but who does not possess a Master Mariner's

Certificate. The China Coast Officers Guild have

submitted that the holder of this post should have

had experience in the Merchant Service and should

hold this certificate of competency.

There appears to be some force in the

Guild's view, but I am unaware of the qualifications

normally required for a post of this kind and I

suggest that in the first place we should send the

duplicate of the despatch and enclosures to the

Board of Trade and ask, with reference to para. 4

of the despatch, whether it is correct to say that

posts of this nature are not usually filled by

possessors of a Master Mariner's Certificate.

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? So proceed.

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