those well-to-do people who are not interested in public activities or public life. We can only claim to have made a start to reach these people but a start has been made. The problem has been how to establish contact for there is a limit to what can be done by simply going to an office, a school or a factory just to pass the time of day.
38. We have concluded that one very fruitful way to make contact is to join in something that is happening or to stimulate some activity which will be of interest to some group, preferably of some direct use to us, but which involves a C.D.O. seeing a good deal of the group. So many approaches have been tried that I find it difficult to describe them without simply writing a catalogue. Action has sprung from the C.D.O.s' initiative without instruction or permission being required from headquarters.
39. Surveys, done by volunteers with C.D.O. guidance, of hawkers, multi-storey building management, old tenements, squatter living con- ditions etc. have been popular. Group visits to schools, factories, housing estates, hospitals, government departments, the University Open Day, various departmental open days are shorter-term but involve more people. Even more people are involved in organizing and joining in sports days, knock-out competitions, Christmas parties and entertain- ments. Over 53,000 people went to one or other of the C.D.O.s' Christmas parties and I expect Chinese New Year will see a repetition of this. More serious are the regular monthly meetings where the C.D.O. and rep- resentatives of departments often including Police, Education, Fire Services, Public Works, Social Welfare and Urban Services Departments meet kaifong leaders and others to discuss local affairs. Some of these attend regularly while others come when some special point concerned with their departments is discussed in depth. In general departments welcome the opportunites so presented but all are not able to take full advantage of them and one C.D.O. was disappointed when an office concerned with a recently published report of considerable public in- terest was unable to send anyone to a meeting to discuss it. The head of the office offered every help short of attendance but he did not have the manpower to undertake a large number of speaking engagements such as might well be involved once he went to one District meeting. Student conferences, the formation of a District Youth Council and joining in all sorts of regular lunch meetings of groups of business or professional men which go on all over the city also give an opportunity for more prolonged conversation. These contacts yield opinions either
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