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is always available when, as in recent years, conditions

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in China are unsettled. However, as mentioned above the

Governor has powers under the Trade Boards Ordinance to introduce

statutory regulations of wages for the industry and he

will no hesitate to use these powers if it seems to him

necessary or desirable to do so, the time right to considered And the pure it is furpose

appropriate to enquire from the fovernor whether in his new the

comparative absence of collective agrements in the textile industry

He wages paid, do not suggest that an exquery

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enquiry into the industry

with a new to the establishment of a trade board might now be

undertaken. at an engiory would

balah favourably sound

by the trade warious manth he widesca of a percard social probing,

The Report of the fort of Hong Kong for spil. Meg on the application of the

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International Labour Convention on Mincinum Wage Fixing suggested

liate board that the setting of 2 a

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loved be considered if new agreements in the cardusty were not forthcoming.

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