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seventy-five cents for the former and forty to sixty cents for the latter per day. Hours of work vary in the different trades and occupations but are usually about nine hours with overtime up to another four hours. Apart from Government activities the bulk of the labour is employed in house-building, ship-building and engineering, transport, market gardening, fishing, domestic and quasi-municipal service, and in factories and workshops.
Two mines are operated in the New Territories and employ about 600 labourers. In the Lin Ma Hang Mine satisfactory accommodation has been provided for labourers, but this is not the case with a Wolfram Mine up to the present time. There are no estates or plantations similar to those found in Malaya, Ceylon, and similar eastern colonies and dependencies.
A small but valuable piece of legislation was introduced during the year under review in the form of Regulations under the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910.
This provided the Health Authorities in the New Territories with the power to require certain types of employers of labour to construct suitable housing accommodation for their labourers and to carry out anti-malarial measures in the area occupied by the proposed works. Owing to lack of liaison between the authorities concerned, works are not infrequently undertaken without any notification to the authorities and, hence, without satisfactory provision for the labourers employed.
It is unlikely that conditions of labour will show any marked improvement in Hong Kong until a Labour Code, possibly on the lines of that promulgated in the Federated Malay States several years ago, has been enacted laying down a minimum wage, adequate housing, and so on.
(V)-HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING.
Housing in the Colony is controlled under the Buildings Ordinance, No. 18 of 1935.
The vast majority of the houses occupied by the labouring classes are built back-to-back with narrow frontages (governed originally by the length of China fir used) and often with conservancy back-lanes six feet or more in width.
In many houses built prior to the Public Health & Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903, the open space provided within the plot boundaries is often less than 100 square feet in extent.
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seventy-five cents for the former and forty to sixty cents for the latter per day. Hours of work vary in the different trades and occupations but are usually about nine hours with overtime up to another four hours. Apart from Government activities the bulk of the labour is employed in house-building, ship- building and engineering, transport, market gardening, fishing, domestic and quasi-municipal service, and in factories and workshops.
Two mines are operated in the New Territories and employ about 600 labourers. In the Lin Ma Hang Mine satisfactory accommodation has been provided for labourers, but this is not the case with a Wolfram Mine up to the present time. There are no estates or plantations similar to those found in Malaya, Ceylon, and similar eastern colonies and dependencies.
A small but valuable piece of legislation was introduced during the year under review in the form of Regulations under the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910.
This provided the Health Authorities in the New Territories with the power to require certain types of employers of labour to construct suitable housing accommodation for their labourers and to carry out anti-malarial measures in the area occupied by the proposed works. Owing to lack of liaison between the authorities concerned, works are not infrequently undertaken without any notification to the authorities and, hence, without satisfactory provision for the labourers employed.
It is unlikely that conditions of labour will show any marked improvement in Hong Kong until a Labour Code, possibly on the lines of that promulgated in the Federated Malay States several years ago, has been enacted laying down a minimum wage, adequate housing, and so on.
(V)-HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING.
Housing in the Colony is controlled under the Buildings Ordinance, No. 18 of 1935.
The vast majority of the houses occupied by the labouring classes are built back-to-back with narrow frontages (governed originally by the length of China fir used) and often with con- servancy back-lanes six feet or more in width.
In many houses built prior to the Public Health & Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903, the open space provided within the plot boundaries is often less than 100 square feet in extent.
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