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Thursday, February 19, 1970.

In addition, the Commissioner of Labour may impose special

conditions on individual factories to ensure that material condition,

including lighting, ventilation, and cleanliness, are up to satisfactory

standards.

Night work for women is permitted, in various circumstances,

in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore,

Malaysia, and many other countries.

It was recently authorized in the United Kingdom in two large

motor plants to relieve a labour shortage following agreeement that

women should be paid the same rates as men if they worked at night.

In Hong Kong, it is a general practice to make no distinction

between the piece rates paid to male and female workers employed during

the day.

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TWO MPS VISITING HONG KONG

Arriving Ja Saturday On Four-Day Stopover

Two Members of Parliament, Mr Patrick Jenkin, Conservative

Member for Wanstead and Woodford, and Mr. Eric Moorman, Labour Member

Wanst

nstead

for Billericay, are arriving this Saturday for a four-day stopover on

their return to Britain at the end of a visit to Japan.

During their stay, they will call on the Governor, and members

of the executive, legislative and urban councils.

/They will

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