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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT
The main types of vegetables grown locally and imported are shown below together with average wholesale prices :
Locally-produced
Average Whole-
Piculs Tons
sale price in ¢
per catty
White Cabbage
273,903
16,304
12
Flowering Cabbage
90,996
5,416
21
Leaf Mustard Cabbage.
57,771
3,439
14
Turnips
50,218
2,989
09
Chinese Lettuce
49,352
2,938
11
Imported
Chinese Melon
15,831
942
12
Taros
15,355
914
15
Tientsin Cabbage
12,532
746
16
Hairy Squash
9,575
570
14
Turnips
7,701
458
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CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES
The first appointment of a Registrar of Co-operatives was made in May 1950, and the combined Co-operative and Marketing Department came into being in August of the same year. Since that date the Co-operative movement in Hong Kong has made rapid progress and is being accepted by an increasing number of persons, including peasant farmers and fishermen, as a sound and democratic method of improving their lot.
Inevitably, particularly among farmers and fishermen, the main weight of effort has been directed towards the physical formation of societies and towards ensuring that these are organizationally and economically sound. The next step, which can only be achieved over a period of years, will be the development of the existing societies into a fully effective co-operative movement.
An interesting development during the past two years has been the growth in the number of Co-operative Building Societies; these societies are at present formed exclusively