HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954
Establishments Males Females Total
1950
1,752
57,596 34,390 91,896
1951
1,961
62,192
33,015
95,207
1952
2,088
63,093
35,033
98,216
1953
2,208
65,047
35,729
100,766
1954
2,494
72,011
43,442 115,453
In addition to workers in registered and recorded fac- tories and workshops, it is estimated that there are about 100,000 persons engaged in small unregistrable concerns, cottage industries, and as outworkers.
Approximate figures for other major sources of employment are:
Agriculture
Building Construction
Fishing
Government Service
Public Transport
200,000
200,000
50,000
29,000
25,000
Applications from employers to recruit local work- men for work overseas were slightly higher than in previous years. A total of 1,554 manual labourers went abroad during the year and contracts drawn up to International Labour Organization specifications were read and explained to all of them before embarkation. The majority went to Brunei, North Borneo and Sarawak for work in the oil fields or in the building trade, while others went to the phosphate mines on Nauru, Ocean Island and Christmas Island. A number of skilled textile workers went to the Argentine. Other factory workers left for Indonesia and there was a demand from Singapore for fishermen.
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