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education. (Singapore, incidentally, seems to make somewhat similar educational provision but the Government there have a goal of ten years education for all in due course.)
36. Above all there is a prima facie case for a
review of working conditions in the Colony. Average take-home pay, according to ILO statistics, is the second highest in Asia (after Japan) and in the application of ILO Conventions governing working conditions and industrial relations generally, Hong Kong compares favourably with her neighbours. Furthermore, according to a recent American study, the industrial relations record is outstandingly good if measured in terms of days lost through strikes (32 per 1,000 workers in 1973 as compared with 1,036 in the United Kingdom and 238 in Japan).
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