TNAG-0087-FCO40-123-Conditions-of-employment-for-Hong-Kong-Chinese-working-in-th-1969 — Page 110

Telephone:

XMBXSSADORX 2694

Telegraphic Address

HONGCHIN, LONDON, WX S.W.1.

LIAISON OFFICER:- H. T. Woo

Our Ref

2

HONG KONG CHINESE LIAISON OFFICE

12X KANCASTER GATEX-

LONDONIXW.

(6) Meeting Places:

a. Restaurant operatives: Gambling clubs, recreation clubs

and reading rooms (mostly pro- communist), and missionary

recreation or service centres.

b. Students: Hong Kong House in London, university or college

unions and missionary recreation centres.

c. Seamen: As in (a) plus seamen's mission centres.

d. Others: As in (a).

No known evidence of off-duty activities on actual business premises. Games of Mah-jong and the like are played in dormitories above business premises especially in the provinces. (8) While the fact that majority of the immigrants came in the late

fifties and the early sixties must be borne in mind, typical ages of Hong Kong Chinese are 15, 25, 35, and 45. Mostly married but unaccompanied and intend to stay until either their children have come and established here, earned enough money to return for a comfortable retirement or too old to work. Most manage to go home for a holiday once every five years.

(9) Newspapers Read:

a. Restaurant operatives: U.K. editions of Wah Kiu Yat Po, Wen

Wei Pao and Ta Kung Pao.

b. Students: National and local English papers.

papers in Hong Kong House.

Hong Kong

c. Seamen: As in (a).

d. Others: All those mentioned above.

/System of distribution.