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340 SEAL NO.

501/1968 GUYANA COMMISSION ... A COMMISSION TIONS ON THE WATERFRONT IN THE PORT OF GEORGETOWN.

TO INQUIRE INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THE OPERA­ .. By His Excellency SIR DAVID JAMES GARDINER ROSE, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distingu�hed Order of Saint Michael in the Royal Victorian Excellent General and Saint George, Order, Member of the Most Empire, of Guyana.

and Commander-in-Chief Order of the British Commander Governor­ • () D.J.

G. ROSE, Governor-General.
WHEREAS it is p1ovided Chapter 59, thai it shall be lawful deeim it advisable and authorising to inquire, be for the public .. welfare; to issue a commission such Commissioners inter alia, into any matter in which an inquiry would, or any quorum of them therein mentioned in his opinion, .. by the Commissions whenever for the Governor-General of Inquiry he shall Ordinance, appointing two or more Commissioners AND WHEREAS I am of opinion .. be held into all aspects that it would be for t1he public of the operatiooo on the waterfront welfare that an inquiry in the Port of Georgetown; should • of the powers conferred I do hereby issue this A. BISHOP, ESQUiRE.
DR. H. LUTCHMAN, S. J.

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OPPEN­ NOW THEREORE by virtue and of all powers enabling and appoint HEIMER, ESQUIRE, P. PARKER, ESQUIRE, ALPHONSO McLEAN, ESQUIRE, the said Commissioners to be commissioners under the said Ordinance by the said Ordinance Commission and I hereby authorise me in that behalf, - ( 1)to inquire into all aspects of the operations with a view to an improvement on the waterfront in its efficiency in the but Port of Georgetown more particularly, with reference to - ' .
(a)the system of employment of dock labour and the need or of a National for tlhe establishment otherwise Board to be responsib1e of all dock workers of the present for the regulation to the merits sch�me; port labour registration having regard Dock Labour of the em'.ployme.nt or otherwise, .. (b)the method of cargo-handling and other conditions of work on ships and on wharves; ( c)the effect of the introduction productivity and on the employment of Labour saving devices on having of dock labour, 341 regard to the need operations in the country; for an efficienit on the waterfront system of and competitive and the unemployment · situation (d)the system in operation in connection with wharfage in respect of services engaged and other agencies provided and port­ • by the Shipping Indus­ in the Shipping erage charges Companies try; (e)the handling of timber; ( f)the levy stabilization fund; (g)the adequacy or otherwise, of the exfoting machinery for deal­ ing with industrial relations matters; (h)what consideration, if any should accrue to t!he waterfront workers of the handling the foss of :.
!mployment of sugar by the Demerara through the transfer Suga:r Terminal; following • (i)the method and adequacy or otherwise of remuneration of the employees; and to make recommendations.

(2)to furnish the Governor-General and of the reasons a full statement leading of the proceedings to the conclusion/s of so the Commission reported.
I DIRECT that A. BISHOP, ESQUIRE, shall be the Chairman of the Com­ • missioners: AND I FURTHER DIRECT that the C11!lirrnan and any two Commis­ sioners shall com,titute a quorum under the said Ordinance: AND I FURTHER DIRECT that the inquiry shall be held at Georgetown may from time to time be adjourned and any other place to which the inquiry by the Commi!'sioners.

Given Uiilder my hand and the Public Guyana House.

Georgetown, December, Majesty's Reign.


Guyana this 18th day of year of Her 1968, and in the seventeenth Seal of Guyana at By His ExceUency's Command.

Secretai-y to the Office of the Governor-General.

R. A. CHEONG,