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Tuesday, April 10, 1973

Mr. Au-Yeung said: "The first survey showed that a total of 28,446

workers were employed on a total of 464 construction sites.

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"In March 1973, however, the number of construction sites both

Government and private recorded by the Public Works Department had increased

to 1,380.

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"In view of the substantial increase in the number of sites

inevitably in the number of workers employed the committee has decided to

conduct a second survey to obtain up-to-date information on new manpower and

training requirements in this field."

The information which employers will be asked to supply will include:

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the number of workers at present employed;

the number of workers at present under training; and

the number of existing vacancies.

Mr. Au-Yeung stressed that the information collected would be

handled in strict confidence and would only be published in the form of

statistical summaries, without reference to individual sites or contracting

firms.

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He urged employers to co-operate by providing accurate answers to

the questionnaire forms. Any queries about the questionnaire should be

directed to the Industrial Training Unit of the Labour Department by ringing

5-282523 Ext. 85 and 88 during office hours.

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