133
INDUSTRIES.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Batteries. Dry
200
650
850
Breweries
52
48
100
Cement
428
10
433
Confectionery and Biscuits
575
815
1,390
Electric Torches
600
2,000
2,600
Electro-Plating
650
166
816
Engineering
674
4
678
Furniture
790
790
Glass and Mirrors
600
95
695
Hats, Cork and Felt
190
575
765
Joss-Sticks
108
663
771
Knitting Factories
1,710
5,035
6,745
Metal Wares
1,756
2,170
3,926
Newspapers
743
745
Oil Refineries
449
12
461
Peas, Green
26
570
596
Preserves
454
971
1,425
Printing Factories
3,664
703
4,367
Public Utilities
1,152
1,152
Rubber Factories
1,050
2,790
3,840
(outworkers)
1,760
1,760
Shipyards
10,890
36
10,426
Shirts and Garments
869
542
1,411.
Spinning and Weaving Factories
1,597
4,554
6,151
Stocking Factories
124
491
615
Sugar Refineries
871
81
952
Tobacco Factories
500
1,500
2,000
117. The great variety of factories will be observed, and the large number of knitting and weaving factories in which female labour predominates. The figures may be compared with those of Shanghai, including the International and French Concessions, where in the first half of 1937 there were 22,376 factories and workshops with about 600,000 workers.*
118. In pea-sorting and ginger preserving, which are purely seasonal trades, young persons are commonly employed. A register of such employees is kept.
119. There are four mines, a lead mine at Lin Ma Hang, a wolfram mine at Needle Hill, an iron mine at Ma On Shan with no underground workings except
* Chinese Labour Conditions in 1937 (in Chinese).