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RESTRICTED
SAVING DESPATCH
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London S.W.1
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HKK 5/3
From the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
To the Governor, HONG KONG
17 June, 1969
No. 295
Affairs
Your Saving Despatch No. 241 of 5 March, and our Despatch No. 285 of 12 June.
Employment of Women at Night
in Industrial Establishments
Further to our Despatch No. 285 of 12 June we have now obtained a limited amount of information about the nature of the work for which special exemption orders are granted in the UK textile industry. The table below gives the figures for March 1969, and shows the number of women aged 18 years or over and the number of girls between 16 and 18, covered by exemption orders.
Category of exemption
Hosiery & Knitted
Goods
Cotton, Linen
& Lace
Wool & Worsted
Other Textiles Women Girls 16-18 Women Girls 16-18 Women Girls 16-18 Women Girls 16-18
Extended
1128
135
472
61
3090
436
1528
350
hours
Double
179
28
7266
day shifts
615
706
95
3829
416
Long spells
141
18
1406
169
102
Night shifts
14
305
175
56
Part-time
12
587
1332
314
work
Sunday
afternoon
64
10
14
6
work
Sunday
95
1
138
27
36
3
88
8
work
Miscella-
17
1
26
5
8
177
4
neous
Totals
1650
191
8794
708
6753
703
6108
784
LAST
REF.
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NEX)
REF.
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