CO129-602-6 Harbour Department- proposed reorganisation 17-10-1946 - 8-1-1948 — Page 15

other miscellaneous offices will be grouped under

a separate head, also directly responsible to

the Harbour Master. The close liaison between the

two branches which has existed hitherto will

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cape maintained.

Under the new organization the Harbour

Master will be termed the Director of Marine,

and he will have

(a) one Assistant Director of Marine (Port Control), who will combine the duties of the posts formerly carried out by the Deputy and Assistant Harbour Masters, and

(b) one Assistant Director of Marine (Surveys), hitherto known as Principal Surveyor of Ships.

Either of these officers will be in a position

to act as Director of Marine in the absence of

the substantive office holder, and both can

legitimately aspire to promotion to

Director of Marine, if they hold the requisite

qualifications and are otherwise suitable for

The nomenclature and organization of the

Ship Surveyor's Office will remain unchanged.

it will be except that/the_normal rule that the sector

surveyors will be drawn, one from among the

Shi and Nautical Surveyors, and one from

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the Surveyors (Begineer and Shi).

More radical alterations are envisaged→

in the staffing of the Port Control Branch and

in order to raise the status of the officers

employed it has been decided to regrade the

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Fats. The titles of the Deputy Shipping

Master, Assistant Shipping Master, Chief

Boarding