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(6) SO FUK CHOI, female, spinster, age 17, employed Lo Kwok Po weaving factory, 43 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Shamshuipo. Kowloon, (unregistered), lives 170 Nan Chang Street, 2nd floor, Shamshuipo, with elder sworn sister (i.e. friend) age 22 years, who does similar work in another factory; parents in Shatin, New Territories, working as farmers; came to Sha Tin seven or eight years ago; born and educated at Shiu Hing, near Canton, and can read and write; employed here for two years, working hand weaving machine; piecework, twenty to thirty cents a day.
Hours: 7 a.m.-10 a.m., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.. 6 p.m.-8 p.m., can occasionally have a holiday on private affairs, no pay, generally works seven days a week.
Shares a bedspace with sworn sister, formerly $2.30, now $2.40 a month; they buy and cook their own food. Food costs $4-$5 each per month. Sometimes buys clothes, sometimes receives them from mother who assists with one to two dollars a month. Never goes to pictures; sometimes saves a little to buy clothes. Paid twice a month. Has to pay for kerosene lamp in house. Not member of any union or guild.
(7) CHENG YAU LIN, female, married woman, age 31, employed at Wah Nam Battery Company, Pine Street, Taikoktsui, Kowloon.
Husband, unemployed seaman, three years unemployed, works occasionally, ten to fifteen days a month, as ship's painter and earns about ten dollars per month.
Three children, husband looks after children while wife works; while husband is also working eldest child, boy, age eleven, looks after the others and cooks the food.
Lives in cubicle at 128 Yee Kuk Street, Shamshuipo, Kowloon, for which they pay $3.60 per month.
Came to Hong Kong four years ago from Toi Shan, Kwangtung Province, as ship on which husband was employed frequently called at Hong Kong.
Work
sticks.
Wrapping paper round manganese batteries (electric torch) and carbon
Wages: 21 cents a day. Hours: 7 a.m.-12 noon, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., 6 p.m.-8 p.m.; works every day.
Cannot read or write. Is not a member of any union or guild.
(8) CHEUNG SIU, female, spinster, age 19, employed at Leung Wing Shing Joss Stick Company, 896 Kremer Street, Taikoktsui, Kowloon.
Came from San Wui, Kwangtung Province, four years ago to look for work; lives with elder sister in Ash Street, Taikoktsui, number unknown shares cubicle and pays one dollar per month rent.
Employed four years in joss stick factory, piecework.
Wages: 3 cents per thousand joss sticks rolled; earns about 30 cents a day. Hours: 7 a.m.-8 p.m. with intervals of about forty minutes off at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Is not a member of any guild.
(9) YAM SIU YING, female, spinster, aged 25, Moonlight Torch Factory, 11-27 Yen Chau Street, Shamshuipo, Kowloon.
Works machines (various) that stamp out parts of electric torch cases; in present employment two years.
Wages: 25 cents a day, paid fortnightly.
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