CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 310

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20 AW 1920.

JUVENILE EMPLOYMENT,

HONG KONG.

Winter

young persons under 13 in factories and workshops in any occupation which might

be injurious to life, health, or limb, was

Mr. CAPE saked the Under-Secretary thrown out by the Legislative Council of of State for the Colonies whether he is the colony and whether this matter can aware that A Resolution carried he reconsidered?

unanimously at a meeting of the Sani'

Lieut.-Colonel AMERY: I am aware of tary Board in Hong Kong in May, 1919, the Resolution referred to, which has calling for bye-laws prohibiting the em

ployment of children under the age of 14 been under the consideration of the Colonial Government. The Governor is in factories or workshops for more than

10 hours in any one day, except with the being asked to state what incomes, if special permission of the board, and pro- any, are in contemplation and to report hibiting the employment of children and generally on the question.

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