PRH 7 4000091
香港政府
GIS新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
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Thursday, November 9, 1972
FURTHER INCREASE IN INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT
The Commissioner of Labour, Mr. Paul Tsui, said today (Thursday)
industrial employment in the third quarter of this year had shown a moderate
increase over the previous two quarters.
He was disclosing the results of the quarterly employment statistical
survey conducted by the Labour Department in September this year.
Compared with the previous quarter, Mr. Tsui said, the number of
industrial undertakings has increased by 546 to 20,954, and the number of
employees by 8,003 to 616,724.
"Employment continued to expand in the garments, electronics and
metal products industries," he said.
However, he added, employment in the wig industry continued to drop
for the nineth successive quarter from its peak figure of June, 1970.
According to the survey, the more significant changes in employment
over the previous quarter were increases of 5,410, 4,659 and 1,568 employees
in the garments, electronics and metal products industries respectively, and
decreases of 3,892, 784 and 532 employees in the wigs, plastic toys and ship-
yards industries respectively.
The survey
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