MARINE ENGINEERS.
DEPUTATION TO THE PRIME MINISTER. By Telegraph—Press Association. % Wellington, Last Night. • A deputation from the Marine Engineers' Institute and Amalgamated Society of Engineers- waited on the Minister for Marine to-day with regard to matters affecting their calling. The Minister said that the Department was prepared to hold examinations every two months, instead of every four months a* at present. The deputation also urged that some of the smaller boats required more supervision. Officers and engineers had to eat and sleep in the same place, and cargo was stowed in an unsafe manner. The Minister promised an 1 quiry, and added that the Department had no objection to amending the Act so as to make it perfectly clear thai the technical school course of two years and the shop service of three yearg should not run concurrently.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 110, 25 September 1912, Page 5
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138MARINE ENGINEERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 110, 25 September 1912, Page 5
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