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And to place a surcharge on delayed payment of workmen's com-

pensation, and to extend the time limit for application,

Consultation is taking place with the Labour Advisory Board and

with both sides of industry on whether the wage ceiling in the

Employment Ordinance should be raised or removed to extend protection

to more non-manual employees.

In recent years we have been making very rapid progress

in widening the scope of our labour legislation both in the social

and technical fields. The Commissioner will be proposing a furtier

smaller but useful package for this session along the lines I have

indicated. But it has become apparent that the pace of legislation

has outrun the administrative and enforcement capacity of the department."

The staff of the department are of high calibre, but there are too few

of them. It is therefore important that in the coming year the department

should consolidate and build up its resources.

/Housing