27
Female Workers in Factories:~
Cigarette making $0.20 to $0.70 per day.
Knitting factories 0.20 0.45
Perfumery 0.20 0.40 3.9
Confectionery 0.20 0.40 17
Electric hand torch factories 0.20 0.30 ?? 3?
Electric hand torch battery 0.15,, 0.35 39 factories
Working hours from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. One hour off at mid-day. Overtime from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at day rates.
Domestic Servants:-
Employed by Chinese $7.00 to $20.00 per month.
Employed by Europeans...... 15.00 40.00
Gardeners 15.00 30.00 31
With free lodging, and, with Chinese employers, generally free board.
NOTE: The rates of pay of Government employees are much the same as those of a similar category in private employ.
Transport coolies $0.60 to $0.70 per day.
Coal coolies 0.55 37
Ricksha coolies 0.60,, 0.70 17
Chapter IX.
EDUCATION AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
These are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, seventeen in number, are known as "English" schools, the latter, of which there are four, as "vernacular" schools.
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27
Female Workers in Factories:~
Cigarette making
$0.20 to $0.70 per day.
Knitting factories
0.20
0.45
Perfumery
0.20
0.40 3.9
""
Confectionery
0.20
0.40 17
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"}
Electric hand torch factories
0.20
0.30 ??
3?
Electric hand torch battery
0.15,, 0.35
39
factories
Working hours from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. One hour off at mid- day. Overtime from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at day rates.
Domestic Servants:-
Employed by Chinese
$7.00 to $20.00 per month.
Employed by Europeans...... 15.00 40.00
Gardeners
15.00
30.00
31
With free lodging, and, with Chinese employers, generally free board.
NOTE: The rates of pay of Government employees are much the same as those of a similar category in private
employ.
Transport coolies
$0.60 to $0.70 per day.
Coal coolies
Ricksha coolies
0.55
37
0.60,, 0.70
17
Chapter IX.
EDUCATION AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
These are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, seventeen in number, are known as "English" schools, the latter, of which there are four, as "vernacular" schools.
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