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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

The main types of vegetables grown locally and imported are shown below together with average wholesale prices :

Locally-produced

Average Whole-

Piculs Tons

sale price in ¢

per catty

White Cabbage

273,903

16,304

12

Flowering Cabbage

90,996

5,416

21

Leaf Mustard Cabbage.

57,771

3,439

14

Turnips

50,218

2,989

09

Chinese Lettuce

49,352

2,938

11

Imported

Chinese Melon

15,831

942

12

Taros

15,355

914

15

Tientsin Cabbage

12,532

746

16

Hairy Squash

9,575

570

14

Turnips

7,701

458

08

CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

The first appointment of a Registrar of Co-operatives was made in May 1950, and the combined Co-operative and Marketing Department came into being in August of the same year. Since that date the Co-operative movement in Hong Kong has made rapid progress and is being accepted by an increasing number of persons, including peasant farmers and fishermen, as a sound and democratic method of improving their lot.

Inevitably, particularly among farmers and fishermen, the main weight of effort has been directed towards the physical formation of societies and towards ensuring that these are organizationally and economically sound. The next step, which can only be achieved over a period of years, will be the development of the existing societies into a fully effective co-operative movement.

An interesting development during the past two years has been the growth in the number of Co-operative Building Societies; these societies are at present formed exclusively