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(3) am 53712/7/17
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desirable not only in recognition of the qualifications possessed
by most of them, but also in order to attract a good class of
candidate to fill these posts in the future. It is proposed therefore
that Marine Officers should have the status of senior officers and be
placed on comparable salary scales, with prospects of transfer within
the Colonial Service. You have already been informed in the Governor's
confidential savingram No.241 of 2nd May, 1947 that those officers who
had previously petitioned are considered suitable for transfer to posts
in other Colonies for which a Master's Certificate is required.
7.
Not all the officers are qualified professionally for senior
status and the present holders of the posts of Deputy Shipping Master,
Chief Inspector of Junks, and Boatswain, Yaumati, do not possess
Master's Certificates, but they are officers of long service and local
experience, the former two having been appointed in 1920, the latter in
1928. There are, I consider, adequate reasons for appointing these
officers also as Marine Officers. The advice of the Salaries Commission
will be sought as to the extent to which they should be allowed to
benefit by the re-grading.
8. The Engineering Superintendent (Yaumati Slipway) will be the
officer responsible to the Assistant Director of Marine (Port Control)
for the efficient operation of the repairs and maintenance organization
for Government craft of all descriptions. It is not proposed to create
a special post but to second one of the Ship Surveyors for these duties.
9. I shall be grateful to receive your early approval of these
proposals so that the Salaries Commission may know the basis upon which
they are to frame recommendations for the salaries for the various posts
in this important Department.
10. I should like to take this opportunity to advert to the
appointment of a substantive holder of the post of Deputy Harbour Master
which under the proposed reconstruction would become that of Assistant
Director of Marine (Port Control). You will already have received
Mr. MacDougall's telegram No.1218 relating to the proposed appointment
of Mr. R. G. Wood to this post. While I have no doubt that Mr. Wood is
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