AnnualReport-1937 — Page 28

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The price of rice varied between 20% and 33% above the corresponding figures for 1936, but in 1937 the peak price for the year was reached in August as opposed to December in 1936. The sharp rise in price which occurred in the latter half of 1936 proved largely permanent. The absolute variation during the year (25%) was about the same as in 1936 (23%) but, as in 1937 the interval between the two was two months as compared with eleven months in 1936 (the minimum being prior in both cases), the change was more keenly felt. Figures are:

Per 100 catties. (average of 4 grades).

1937 June August Variation. $ 7.31 $ 9.16 25% 1936 February December $ 5.90 $ 7.27 23%

AVERAGE RATES OF WAGES FOR LABOUR.

Building Trade:-

Locomotive Drivers $1.30 to $1.80 per day. Carpenters 0.80 1.30 Bricklayers. 0.80 1.30 Painters 0.80 1.30 Plasterers (including Shanghai Plasterers) 1.00 1.50 Scaffolders 1.00 1.50 Labourers (male) 0.60 0.80 (female) 0.40 0.50

Working hours 9 per day. Time and a half paid for over-time. Free temporary sleeping quarters provided on the building site and communal messing at cheap rates.

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25 The price of rice varied between 20% and 33% above the corresponding figures for 1936, but in 1937 the peak price for the year was reached in August as opposed to December in 1936. The sharp rise in price which occurred in the latter half of 1936 proved largely permanent. The absolute variation during the year (25%) was about the same as in 1936 (23%) but, as in 1937 the interval between the two was two months as compared with eleven months in 1936 (the minimum being prior in both cases), the change was more keenly felt. Figures are: Per 100 catties. (average of 4 grades). 1937 June August Variation. $ 7.31 $ 9.16 25% 1936 February December $ 5.90 $ 7.27 23% AVERAGE RATES OF WAGES FOR LABOUR. Building Trade:- Locomotive Drivers $1.30 to $1.80 per day. Carpenters 0.80 1.30 Bricklayers. 0.80 1.30 Painters 0.80 1.30 Plasterers (including Shanghai Plasterers) 1.00 1.50 Scaffolders 1.00 1.50 Labourers (male) 0.60 0.80 (female) 0.40 0.50 Working hours 9 per day. Time and a half paid for over-time. Free temporary sleeping quarters provided on the building site and communal messing at cheap rates.
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25 The price of rice varied between 20% and 33% above the corresponding figures for 1936, but in 1937 the peak price for the year was reached in August as opposed to December in 1936. The sharp rise in price which occurred in the latter half of 1936 proved largely permanent. The absolute variation during the year (25%) was about the same as in 1936 (23%) but, as in 1937 the interval between the two was two months as compared with eleven months in 1936 (the minimum being prior in both cases), the change was more keenly felt. Figures are: Per 100 catties. (average of 4 grades). 1937 June August Variation. $ 7.31 $ 9.16 25% 1936 February December $ 5.90 $ 7.27 23% AVERAGE RATES OF WAGES FOR LABOUR. Building Trade:- Locomotive Drivers $1.30 to $1.80 per day. Carpenters 0.80 1.30 jj 75 Bricklayers. 0.80 1.30 "" "1 Painters 0.80 1.30 "} 1 J" Plasterers (including Shanghai Plasterers) 1.00 1.50 77 Scaffolders 1.00 1.50 "} 21 "2 Labourers (male) 0.60 0.80 "} ,, 21 31 (female) 0.40 0.50 7) "J Working hours 9 per day. Time and a half paid for over- time. Free temporary sleeping quarters provided on the build- ing site and communal messing at cheap rates.
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The price of rice varied between 20% and 33% above the corresponding figures for 1936, but in 1937 the peak price for the year was reached in August as opposed to December in 1936. The sharp rise in price which occurred in the latter half of 1936 proved largely permanent. The absolute variation during the year (25%) was about the same as in 1936 (23%) but, as in 1937 the interval between the two was two months as compared with eleven months in 1936 (the minimum being prior in both cases), the change was more keenly felt. Figures

are:

Per 100 catties. (average of 4 grades).

1937

June

August

Variation.

$ 7.31

$ 9.16

25%

1936

February

December

$ 5.90

$ 7.27

23%

AVERAGE RATES OF WAGES FOR LABOUR.

Building Trade:-

Locomotive Drivers

$1.30 to $1.80 per day.

Carpenters

0.80

1.30 jj

75

Bricklayers.

0.80

1.30

""

"1

Painters

0.80

1.30

"}

1

J"

Plasterers (including Shanghai

Plasterers)

1.00

1.50

77

Scaffolders

1.00

1.50

"}

21

"2

Labourers (male)

0.60

0.80

"}

,,

21

31

(female)

0.40

0.50

7)

"J

Working hours 9 per day. Time and a half paid for over- time. Free temporary sleeping quarters provided on the build- ing site and communal messing at cheap rates.

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