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School of Business Administration and from the Urwick Manage- ment Centre to conduct short courses for top level managers.
The Hong Kong Technical College includes management studies in its full-time diploma courses in building and engineering, and also provides evening courses in management subjects and work study. The Technical College also offers short courses of three or four weeks each on productivity, dealing with such matters as plant layout, the handling of materials, production planning and control, quality control, work study and allied subjects. The courses are intended for persons at middle management level, particularly those engaged in actual production work. The super- visory training section of the Labour Department also offers train- ing in supervisory techniques free of charge to staff of industrial and commercial concerns and to civil servants. The four basic courses offered comprise the internationally recognized programme of training within industry. Firms are invited to nominate mem- bers of their staff for instruction as trainers at the supervisory training centre, and these then return to their own organizations to run courses themselves. The section also offers courses for supervisors of those organizations which do not wish to employ trainers of their own. The scheme is well supported and to date 3,500 persons have been trained in the four programmes either on the employers' premises or at the supervisory training centre of the Labour Department.
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Shipbuilding and repairing is the oldest of Hong Kong's in- dustries. Following naturally from its development as a trading port, the Colony has become one of the finest ship building and repair centres in the East. Hong Kong shipyards can build ocean- going vessels of over 6,000 tons dead-weight and also construct and install their engines. At the other end of the scale, pleasure craft and utility vessels of all kinds including ocean-going yachts, vehicle and passenger ferries, sloops, cruisers, speed boats of wood and fibre glass, tugs, yawls and steel lighters are regularly produced for local use and for export. The traditional Chinese junk, slightly modified from the basic design in use for many centuries, has also found acceptance abroad as a comfortable and stable pleasure craft.