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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT
The following table shows the fluctuations which occurred in the officially published Retail Price Index during the year:
January February
March ...
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
:
:
:
:
:
:
113
118
116
114
115
+
115
115
117
120
120
118
118
The Retail Price Index covers a wide range of commodities and is weighted according to a budgetary survey carried out in 1948. The base of 100 is for March 1947, and although the expenditure pattern used for weighting is that of the artisan and white collar worker, the Index gives a fair reflection of general changes in the cost of living.
LABOUR ADMINISTRATION
The Government's responsibilities in labour matters are dealt with by the Labour Department and the Registry of Trade Unions. Labour Department. The Commissioner of Labour is the principal adviser to the Government on all matters connected with labour and industrial relations. He is ex-officio Chairman of the Labour Advisory Board, on which both employers and employed are represented, and which is consulted on all legislative matters affecting labour. The Commissioner is also Chairman of the Standing Committee on Technical Education and Vocational Training, an ex-officio member of the Port Committee and a member of the Kwun Tong Advisory Committee concerned with the provision of industrial sites. Concurrently he is Commissioner of Mines. The registration of trade unions, formerly a function of the Labour Department, has been undertaken by the Registrar of Trade Unions since December 1954, when a separate depart- ment was set up for this purpose.
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