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-20- ganerai oi rilatagc has recommanded that under tha circumstances obtaining at orasent in the said district it would be in the interests of navigation and of the public generally that the said pilotage district be abolished’^ , This drastic step appears to have teen taken in answer to the pilots» dissatisfaction with tlie remaining recommend- atiors of the Robb Commission which v/ere incorporated in a by-law late in 1919 and which covered compulsory retirement age, temporary licences, disciplinary matters, collection of pilotage dues by the 'collector of Oustoms and a fixed maximum monthly remuneration for pilots of $325.00, inter alia, and was the overture to several years of chaotic development in the pilotage service of B,C. durinc^ which no less than three pilot groups existed and pilots were not required to hold licences to carry out their duties.^ Further Royal Commiissions were set up to study the problem in 192^ and 1963 and today the pilotage is a Crown Corporation under the Federal Government with the Vancouver- based Pacific Pilotage Authority being responsible for the entire B.C. coast and employing eighty eight pilots, forty-five of whom 2 work out of Vancouver• 1. Royal Commission on Pilotage, 1963, op.cit. P. 17. 2. Captain V.R. Covin^n, Conversation with the Author, May 1976.