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REGISTRY No.51
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BULLETIN
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Friday, July 3, 1970
25,000 VACANCIES IN FACTORIES
Labour Department Advice To Young Job-Seekers
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Mr. I.R. Price, Assistant Commissioner of Labour, today urged
young job-seekers to take advantage of the 25,000 factory vacancies reported
by industrial managements and to heed the criticism of a famous Chinese
saying "Not qualified for high posts, too proud to accept lowlier ones."
Speaking at a speech day for evening students at the Kwun Tong
Vocational Training Centre run by the Lutheran World Federation, he said
in contrast there were only 2,500 similar vacancies in a very limited sector
of commercial employment.
It was sometimes argued that those leaving school placed too much
importance on academic learning, and gave too little attention to vocational
training. He thought this could not apply to students at the Centre, but
he advised them to face reality by accepting that "most employment opportunities
in Hong Kong arose from industrial expansion,"
To illustrate, he said in March, 1960, there were only 229,000
employees in registered and recorded factories, but by March, 1970, the
figure had risen to 569,000
an increase of 340,000 in ten years.
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