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Wages amount to about forty five dollars a month, paid monthly. Wife does no work except house work-no servants. Not member of any union or guild. Food for family about eighteen dollars per month. Remits seven to ten dollars per month to mother in country. Can read and write Chinese: learned in country when boy. No savings.
(15) CHAN PUI, male, 48 years, plater, Taikoo Dockyard:
Married: two sons, four daughters eldest aged 22, 48 Saiwanho Street ground floor. Principal tenant paying $11.50 per month, four sub-tenants from whom he collects from $8 to $9, retains one cubicle and bedspace, no servants. Two daughters work at Fung Keong Rubber Factory, earning thirty to sixty cents a day each which they hand over to him; he provides them with house, food and clothing.
Came to Hong Kong, aged 29, from Toi Shan, Kwangtung Province, as no work in country, learned trade for three years at Bailey's Shipyard at forty cents a day-then in Kowloon Docks from two to three years-fifteen years at Taikoo Dock, employed through a contractor, time work.
Hours: 7 a.m.-12 noon, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Wages $1.50 a day. Overtime- time and half, Sundays-time and half.
Sent remittance to country monthly when mother was alive. Can read and write Chinese. Not member of any union. private school-fees thirteen dollars a year. for family forty dollars per month.
Eldest son, aged fourteen, goes to Only eldest girl went to school. Food
(16) CHAN YIN, male, 60, coolie in coppersmiths shop, Taikoo Dockyard:
About thirty years in Hong Kong, came from Ching Yuen, Kwangtung Province, to look for work. Formerly employed as ship's painter, Taikoo Dock, but work too hard and dangerous, so became coolie. Employed as such for last seventeen years, wife dead. Resides with son, aged 17 years, apprentice in machine shop at fifteen cents a day, in Dockyard Quarters paying $1.50 per month for one bunk. Son resided with wife in country until three years ago.
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Wages: 9 cents an hour-81 cents a day.
Hours: 7 a.m.-12 noon, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Overtime and Sunday work-time and
Can read and write a little. Son can read and write as he went to school in country. Son now studying English at night school. When a painter was member of painters' guild. Was not skilled worker. Food for self and son $17 per month. Used to remit money to parents when alive. Saves four to five dollars per month which he spends on relatives who borrow but never repay,
(17) WONG SIK PO, male; 26, foki of Sheung Chit Fat rice and oil shop, 158 Tam Kung Road, Kowloon City.
Came from Chiu Chow, Kwangtung Province this month as no work in country owing to war. Left wife and daughter, aged two, in Chiu Chow. Master of shop, also from Chiu Chow, pays him six dollars a month, free food; sleeps on premises.
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Hours: 7 a.m.-9 p.m. with half hour off for meals at 8 a.m., 12 noon, and 7
Can read and write a little. Not member of any guild or union. Remits four dollars per month home.
(18) LEUNG SAM, female, 40, (found shovelling sand at house being erected along Customs Pass Road, eight miles beyond Kowloon City).
Widow, came from Hoi Ping nine months ago to make living in Hong Kong leaving son aged 18 and daughter aged 15 with mother-in-law in country. When in