IMMIGRATION FROM HONG KONG TO THE U.K.
October, 1966
September, 1967
(Figures reproduced in the half-yearly reports of the Labour
Department of Hong Kong)
Under the Commonwealth Immigrants Act
A Vouchers
B Vouchers
172
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Total of Commonwealth citizens holding employment vouchers who actually left for the U.K. during the year. 146
Aliens
Aliens from Hong Kong holding U.K. Ministry of Labour permits who left for employment in the course of the
year
of these, 130 were nurses,
463 restaurant workers,
28 domestic servants, 16 trainees,
16 miscellaneous.
653
The Contracts for Overseas Employment Ordinance did not apply to all of these. The number of contracts attested during the year in respect of aliens to take up employment (or to be re-engaged for employment) in the U.K. was
....
Of these, 510 were hotel and restaurant workers,
25 domestic servants,
7 launderers,
4 shop assistants,
2 tailors,
2 leather workers (shoes),
2 barbers,
1 secretary.
553
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In the same period, the total number of persons leaving Hong Kong for employment elsewhere, coming under the Contracts for Overseas Employment Ordinance, i.e. excluding those to whom the Commonwealth Immigrants Act applies,
was
2,251