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Tobacco Workers (Cigarette makers) (European control).

Male skilled time-workers (average)

Unskilled coolies

$1.00 per nine-hour day.

.56

Unskilled boys

Female pieceworkers

Unskilled female time-workers

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.47

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.48

All workers are classified as permanent after 6 months' service.

Torches, Electric.

Only a few permanent workers.

(1) Daily-males

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-females

(2) Piecework, females

Transport Workers.

Tram Drivers

$.60 to $1.10, fitters and platers

&c.

$.25 to $.32, assembling.

$.40-.45 a day: 6-8 p.m., time

and third.

pay.

Conductors

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Chinese New Year Bonus.

Bus Drivers (Chinese Bus Co.)

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Working hours 9 per day. Free uniform.

Bus Drivers (European Bus Co.)

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Working hours-9 per day. Free uniform.

Transport Coolies

Coal coolies

Ricksha coolies

Weaving and Spinning.

Males, monthly

Females, piecework

$36-45 per month.

30-39

27-54

18-21

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Bonus at end of year-3 days'

$55 per month.

$22.50-35.00 per month. One month's salary bonus.

$0.60-$0.70 per day.

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$12-$50-board and lodging.

$.25-.60 a day: 6-8 p.m. time and

third.

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Housing.

180. The question of housing has already been referred to in connexion with the concentration of the population in the urban areas round the harbour, the high cost of accommodation for the working classes and the encroachment by factories upon property designed for housing purposes.

161. For many years the law relating to buildings was combined with the law relating to public health in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903. In 1935 these were separated into several Public Health Ordinances and the Buildings Ordinance No. 18 of 1935, which is described as an ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the construction of buildings. In a colony subject to violent typhoons buildings have to be substantial, and the law has concentrated on the question of construction rather than that of town planning.

162. A Town Planning Committee was appointed in 1922 but its labours do not appear to have borne much fruit.