§ Mr. Thorntonasked the Minister of Labour how many factory inspectors have been trained by his Department for the Government of Hong Kong for each of the years 1956 to 1959; how many applications from Hong Kong have been accepted for training and how many rejected, respectively, in each of the last three complete half-years; and what are the comparable figures for the three similar half-years of 1957 and 1958.
§ Mr. P. ThomasMy Department provided training for the following numbers of factory inspectors from Hong Kong from 1956——x2013;1959.
1956 … … … … Nil 1957 … … … … 2 1958 … … … … 2 1959 … … … … 1 In the current year two further inspectors have been trained.
No application has been refused. Applications were accepted as follows in the half-years in question.
January-June 1960 … … 1 July-December 1959 … … 1 January-June 1959 … … 1 January-June 1958 … … Nil July-December 1957 … … 1 January-June 1957 … … 1 Two applications made in 1960 are still under consideration.