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Tuesday, April 10, 1973
SECOND MANPOWER SURVEY
Of Building And Civil Engineering Industry
A major survey of Hong Kong's building and civil engineering
industries will be carried out between April 24 and 26.
It will cover some 1,400 construction sites and 600 contracting
firms in the three-day period.
The survey
the second of its kind
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will be conducted by the
Building Trades Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory
Committee, with the assistance of the Labour Department and the Public Works
Department.
Questionnaire forms and explanatory letters in both English and
Chinese were sent today to construction sites and contracting firms.
About 200 students from the Hong Kong Polytechnic and the Morrison
Hill Technical Institute will assist in the survey by visiting sites and firms
to help employers complete the questionnaire.
The Secretary of the Committee, Mr. Au-Yeung Man-tak, said that in
the first manpower survey, made in August 1968, almost all construction sites
and contracting firms approached had co-operated fully.
he said.
"I am confident that this month's survey will meet with equal success,
The information obtained in 1968 was compiled and analysed by the
Committee and the findings and recommendations were subsequently published.
Many of the recommendations made to both the industries and Government have now
been implemented.
Air. Au-Yeung