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Friday, May 25, 1973

ELECTRONICS FACTORY SETS EXAMPLE BY TAKING ON DISABLED WORKERS

One factory in Hong Kong is setting an example for industry by

employing a large number of disabled workers.

With 19 blind workers already on its work force, the factory,

Rover Electronics Limited, took on another 16 blind men and women in April.

They were given jobs as assemblers or packers. The factory now

employs a total of 35 blind workers, the highest number to be given jobs

by a single factory.

"By employing these blind workers the factory management has

demonstrated its sympathetic attitude towards the disabled in Hong Kong," said

Mr. Chan Shiu-wing, officer-in-charge of the Social Welfare Department's Job

Placement Unit.

"In fact, Mr. Victor Tam, the Managing Director of the Company has

said he intends to employ several more blind workers this month,"

Mr. Chan said that apart from being employed in factories, many

blind workers also held jobs as telephone operators in hospitals, voluntary

agencies, government departments, commercial firms and factories.

"They have all been highly praised by their employers as being

trustworthy, reliable, and steady workers," he said.

He explained that the blind workers, before being placed in jobs

as telephone operators, undergo a course of training in the Rotary Training

Centre of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind.

/Mr. Chan