Sessional_Paper_1939 — Page 136

DESCRIPTION.

132

Hong Kong.

Kowloon and New Territories.

Total.

Brought forward

223

381

604

Rubber Shoes

5

7

Sausages

1

Sandal Wood, Gypsum Powder, &c.

1

4

5

Sesamum Seeds

2

3

Shipbuilding and Repairing

4

7

11

Shirts and Garments

11

16

27

Simplex Gypsum Products

1

1

Shoe Makers

1

5

Soap Factory

3

3

T

Soy and Sauce

1

5

Stockings, Silk

17

17

Sugar Factories

2

4

Tea Packing

1

1

Telephones (Assembling)

1

1

Thread Factories

1

1

2

Timber Mills

10

6

16

Tin Can Making

Tobacco Factories

Tooth Brushes

Tooth Picks

9

3

12

CD

1

9

2

2

Torch Factories

13

9

22

Toy Works

1

1

Twine and Tape Makers

1

1

Umbrella Sticks and Frames

1

3

4

Vacuum Flasks

1

1

Vermilion and White Lead

2

6

Water Pipes

1

1

Water-proof Cloth

1

1

Weaving Factories

3

79

82

Total (February, 1939)

303-

554

857

116. The distribution of male and female workers in certain important industries is shown in the following table. The figures are approximate only as they fluctuate with business prosperity.

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