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and drill at the end of it, and work on Sundays was a very

common occurrence, a number of these men were married and had

domestic duties and obligations to attend to on Sundays and

holidays. Moreover men who are no longer young were not fit to

undergo in the climate of Hongkong hard physical FXKKİER

exercise over the hilly country obtaining in the £* Colony.

As regards the young men in the office of

his firm, the difficulties in sparing them for the proposed

training were not so great as in the case of the skilled employ-

-oes in the Shipyard and Sugar Infixing Refinery of his Firm.

These employees especially in the Shipyard where they had 70

Europeans - all had their particular work to do. Their work did

not overlap, and if a certain number went away for training the

work they were required for might have to stand still. He

agreed with Mr. Keswick that the local condition of compulsory

service would render employment in Hongkong unpopular and thus

prejudice his Firm's interests.

Major Hart-Synnot pointed out that as regardó

physical unfitness, there was a provision in the scheme exempt-

-ing those pronounced to be physically unfit; and the Officer

Administering the Government added that some of the objections

mentioned by Mr. Robertson could be met by reducing the limit

of age (50 years) up to which service would be: required.

Mr. I. A* Kewett said that he had at first

ago

been in favour of a scheme of compulsory service, but that after

careful consideration of the matter he had come to the conclusi»

-on that it was impracticable to introduce such a scheme in

Hongkong. He agreed generally with the objections raised by Mr.

Keswick and Mr. Robertson,

Mr. R. Shewan said that he was in favour of

the scheme. He pointed out that Heads of Firms were in the

habit of giving their employees vacations during the year, and

he saw no reason why they should not spare them for the few days

training that were desired. Ke believed that the training ad-

-rocated

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