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private development projects is recruited locally, providing employ- ment for numbers of villagers and market town-dwellers. The number of New Territories' residents employed in Government service has also increased considerably.
Certain traditional industries have always been carried on in a small way in the New Territories. Examples are the operation of salt pans; the preparation of salt-fish, fish-paste, beancurd, soya sauce and preserved fruits; the burning of coral and sea-shells for lime; brick manufacture; boat building and repairing; and stone quarrying. There is an old-established match factory at Peng Chau Island for which villagers on neighbouring islands make match boxes by hand as a sideline occupation.
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Major industry did not come to the New Territories to any extent until 1952, but since then it has spread on an increasingly large scale. This is particularly so in the Tsuen Wan area, which has developed from a group of old-fashioned villages into a large industrial town mainly occupied in the manufacture of textiles. The Colony's brewery is situated at Sham Tseng. Large-scale industries have also appeared at Castle Peak, where there are cotton, plastics and carpet mills; Tai Po, where carpets are manu- factured; and Sha Tin, where a dyeing and finishing factory opened in 1959. Mining and prospecting provide employment in a number of places, particularly at Ma On Shan, where there is a large iron mine.
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