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REVISED IMPORTS AND EXPORTS CLASSIFICATION LIST

The Hong Kong Imports and Exports Classification List (Revised

Edition January 1961) will be on sale, at $3 a copy at the Government

Publications Counter on the ground floor of the General Post Office Building

as from Tuesday, January 3, 1961.

This revised Classification List incorporates the amendments published

in Government Gazette Notification No. 1934 on Friday, December 16, 1960 and

must be followed when completing import, export and re-export declaration formIS.

The Director of Commerce & Industry again urges importers and exporters

to ensure that their employees, who are responsible for completing these

declaration forms, are fully conversant with this revised Classification List,

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HONG KONG HAS 3.204 REGISTERED FACTORIES

Factories and industrial undertakings registered by the Labour

Department at the end of last month numbered 3,204, according to statistics

published in the Government Gazette today.

During the month of November, 69 applications for registration were

received, and nine applications were withdrawn, while 16 registration

certificates were surrendered for cancellation and 58 registration certificates

were issued,

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K.C.R. CARRIED 592,360 PASSENGERS LAST MONTH

Nearly 592,360 passengers travelled on trains in the British Section

of the Kowloon-Canton Railway in November, 1960.

Of this total, 288,075 made the upward journey to Shun Chun and

293,620 the downward journey to Yau Ma Tei and Tsim Sha Tsui,

A total of 919,280 kilograms of goods were married on the upward

services and 34,173,550 kilograms on the downward services during November,

Revenue for the month totalled $701,084,

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