From the South China Morning Post this week in 1959
The Salaries Commission said it was unable to formulate any principle to support equal pay for women and recommended that they should receive 75 per cent of the revised total pay for male grades.
Among its other recommendations was the abolition of cost of living allowances except for labourers and artisans. Its overall recommendation was for government pay to go up by about 10 per cent, backdated to July 1.
A New Zealand MP, Warren Freer, suggested that the commerce ministers of New Zealand, Australia and Canada should meet in Hong Kong to discuss establishing industries to give jobs to refugees from China.
He said the three Commonwealth countries should take some of the burden for the refugees off Britain.
The American government prohibited Hong Kong businessman Stanley Ho Hung-sun from handling any US exports following allegations that he illegally shipped American goods from West Germany to China. The US Commerce Department's order also applied to Mr Ho's Macau export-import firm, Agencia Comercial Progresso.