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the Bill's application to individual companies; and banking, insurance and shipping firms are exempted from some of the Bill's requirements on reporting. See Hong Kong Govern- ment Gazette, Legal Supplement No. 3, 21st June 1973, and FEER, July 1, 1974, p. 61. Ivan Fallon, "The British "Hongs' Push Harder in the Scramble for Eastern Wealth”, The Director, May 1974; the Times, March 13, 1973.
Information on Jardines from Allan T. Demaree, "The Old China Hands Who Know to Live with the New Asia?", Fortune, November 1971. Interesting information on Jardines and on the Keswick brothers who control the conglomerate in Paul Ferris, The City, (London, 1964), chapter on the Bank Rate Tribunal. Cited in Demaree, "The Old China Hands Who Know...” The Times, December 13, 1973.
Halliday, "Hong Kong: The Economy", pp. 39ff.
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Inter alia, this is in line with Japan's current policy of trying to export high-polluting industries to neighbouring countries; it also, of course, helps make it appear that Japan's trade imbalance is less acute than it otherwise would be.
Information below from England, "Industrial Relations".
Hansard (Commons), March 20, 1974, Cols. 99-104; cf. Appendix IV.
Robin Porter, Child Labour in Hong Kong in the 1970's and Related Problems: a brief review (MS, April 1974), is an outstanding article on the relationship between the lack of social services, governmental protection and exploitation. It may also be noted that in the late 1960s Hong Kong quite likely had the highest TB rate in the world, with an es- timated 2% of the population needing treatment (Portia Ho, "The Struggle for Air", in Jarvie and Agassi, eds., Hong Kong, p. 317).
Information here and immediately below from England, "Industrial Relations”, p. 208; the 1971 Census showed that 174,439 workers were working at least 75 hours per week, and 13,792 of these were working at least 105 hours per week (Hong Kong Census 1971; Population and Housing, Main Report, Table 31, p. 132, cited by Porter, Child Labour in Hong Kong, p. 18.).
K. Cheval, "Social Conditions", in AREAS, Hong Kong, p. 70.
This and information below from Porter, Child Labour in Hong Kong, pp. 12-15, 26. England, "Industrial Relations”, p. 251; of the 9,002 factories that were known in the Colony at the end of 1965, only 5,560 were registered under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance - i.e. only about 60%.
TKP, November 23, 1972, p. 12. The letter is reproduced in full on p. 27.
Cited in Porter, Child Labour in Hong Kong, p. 7; information immediately below from Porter, ibid, p. 5.
Owen, "Economic Policy" in Hopkins, ed., Hong Kong, pp. 189-190 and 202-206. Owen, ibid., p. 187.
Porter, Child Labour in Hong Kong, pp. 15-18, is an extremely valuable discussion of the relationship between wages and the cost of living. Government estimates consistently underweight the importance of rent and transportation costs, particularly.
Report by the Inter-Departmental Working Party to Consider Certain Aspects of Social Security (Hong Kong, 1967), pp. 28, 99, cited in Porter, Child Labour in Hong Kong, p. 19. Hong Kong 1974, p. 186.
The squatter population probably increased from about 400,000 in 1969 to some 500,000 in September 1971 (Cheval, "Social Conditions", p. 65; the Times, 10 September 1971, Supplement on Hong Kong, p.8).
South China Morning Post, 9 December 1971.
Judith Agassi, "Housing the Needy", in Jarvie and Agassi, eds., Hong Kong, p. 248. Cheval, "Social Conditions”, p. 69. It should also be noted that the Government's pro- gramme of building resettlement estates started after a big squatter fire in 1953 which made 50,000 people homeless in a single day; the resettlement programme worked out much cheaper than welfare programmes for squatters; by removing squatters the Govern- ment released large tracts of land for industrial and commercial use on which it made a hefty profit; squatter fires carried a high risk of political disorder, and the resettlement estates have been built to facilitate control by police in case of upheavals. See Cheval, "Social Conditions", and Keith Hopkins, Public Housing Policy in Hong Kong, (Univer- sity of Hong Kong, Centre of Asian Studies Reprint Series No. 7, May 1969), especially, pp. 2-3.
South China Morning Post, 27 April 1972.
In the New Territories, which are leased (free) from China, the Government sublets, the leases running up to the expiry date in 1997. Nor has the Government done much to
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