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supervisory training centre, and these men then return to their parent organizations to run courses themselves for supervisors. The section also offers courses for supervisors for the benefit of organizations which do not wish to employ their own trainers. Support for the scheme is good. Within six months of its inaugura- tion over 100 supervisors were attending courses each month either on the employers' premises or at the supervisory training centre of the Labour Department. This rate has also been maintained.
The University of Hong Kong and the Labour Department to- gether organized a five days' study course in March on industrial relations, attended by representatives of local management. This experimental course, the second of its kind, was designed to show its participants the problems which exist in management, to suggest ways of dealing with them, and to encourage an exchange of views in the light of individual experiences.
In August, two professors of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration conducted an advanced management training programme, under the sponsorship of the Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce. The course was residential at the University of Hong Kong, and over ninety applications were received for the sixty places available. The programme was con- sidered successful and will probably be repeated in the following
years.
A need remains for a co-ordinating body to establish a balanced and integrated programme of training for management at all levels. It is to meet this need that the Federation of Hong Kong Industries has sponsored the formation of a Management Association.
HEAVY INDUSTRY
Shipbuilding and Repairing is the oldest of Hong Kong's indus- tries. Following naturally from its development as a trading port, the Colony has come to occupy the proud position of one of the finest building and repair centres in the East. The two largest vessels built during 1960 were a 141⁄2 knot 422 foot vessel for local owners and a 151⁄2 knot 429 foot vessel for Norwegian owners.
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A number of specialized craft has been built and delivered for local use or to the order of various Asian territories. The export trade in yachts, pleasure cruisers and other small craft continues to