CO129-611-5 Development Secretariat- appointment of registrar of Co-operatives 10-3-1947 - 10-3-1948 — Page 73

No: 43

STAFF.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

10th

March, 1947.

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Sir,

I have the honour to address you on the subject of the

appointment of a Registrar of Co-operatives within the framework

of the Development Secretariat.

2.

Since the war attention has been directed in Hong Kong

Consideration was first

to the formation of co-operative societies.

paid to the formation of producer co-operatives in the local fisheries

and to the initiation of a co-operative movement in agriculture. The

present position is briefly summarised below:-

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(a)

Fisheries. The entire fishing community, numbering

now over 56,000 persons, has become co-ordinated in one Fisheries

Co-operative under the supervision and guidance of the Fisheries

X Department. The officer responsible for this work will be appointed,

in addition to his other duties, Assistant Registrar of Co-operatives

in order that he may be empowered to administer co-operative legis-

lation, now in preparation, for the fishing community.

A Chinese member of the Fisheries staff is at present in

Britain studying the co-operative movement with special reference to

the fishing industry, under the guidance of Miss Margaret Digby.

Before returning to Hong Kong this officer will probably visit Norway

and perhaps Iceland, He will return to his former position of organiser

of the district syndicates in which his new experience will be invalu-

able.

In addition to the all-embracing fisheries co-operative,

small co-operatives are being formed by the fishermen themselves in

each of the fishing villages; some are to replace the small laans"

which before the war organised the collection of the fish from the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

A. CREECH JONES, P.C., M.P.

RECEIVED 21 MAR 1947

6. O. REGY