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of fire safety in industry. The working party on

the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance is continuing

its review, and will draw up recommendations soon. I

shall leave the Commissioner for Labour to give details

of these.

38 Our compliance with International Labour Conventions

continued to improve. 40 Conventions have been applied in

full or with modifications. This represents an increase

of 11 since 1974 and we hope to be able to improve our

declarations in respect of a further six by 1980. In this

respect Hong Kong compares very favourably with other

countries in this region.

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Turning to industrial training the newly established

clothing industry and construction industry training

centres proved to be popular and successful. The Hong

Kong Training Council has therefore recommended a number

of additional training schemes in other industries to be

financed by a general levy, and administered by a

statutory training council. These recommendations are

now being considered by the Government.

Also on

the recommendation of the Training Council, a further

eight trades have been designed under the Apprenticeship

Ordinance during the year.

40 I intend soon to appoint further training boards