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Friday, August 14, 1970
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FFWER FACTORIES EMPLOY CHILD LABOUR
Latest Campaign Results Encouraging
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Pl.P.A.
1/28/2/20.
Only one Hong Kong factory in 15 is now employing child labour according to results of the latest intensive inspection campaign carried
out by the Labour Department.
Three months ago a similar campaign revealed that about ten por
cent of factories inspected were employing children.
Announcing this today, Assistant Commissioner of Labour, Mr. H.
Williams said: "I must emphasise that this encouragingly low level of abuse
was found in areas specially selected because of a suspected high rate of
child employment and at a time during the school holidays when more childron
tend to work."
Mr. Williams added that there was evidence to suggest that
increasingly heavy fines imposed by the Courts were having a deterrent effect.
The campaign, carried out on July 23 and 24 involved the inspection
of 1,186 factories and 108 children were found working in 78 premises.
Proprietors in 153 of the factories visited had previously been
convicted for employing children.
in contravention of the law.
Sixteen of them were found still to be
In Tai Kok Tsui, where several proprietors had been heavily fined
following a campaign there in February, only two of the 42 factorios visited
were found to be employing children.
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