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distributed over 100,000 diets supplied by the Social Welfare Office to deserving cases in Kowloon. The efficiency of these mass distributions by Kaifong voluntary workers is most worthy of mention. Apart from their main activities which have been enumerated above, the Kaifong Association in- terest themselves in all matters which can be of concern or benefit to their own district. They join in propaganda to save water, to obey traffic regulations, to observe fire precautions and, more recently, to prohibit the use of pin-ball machines. They also make representations or requests to Government on such varied matters as street lighting, road repairs, public latrines, markets, hawkers, and so on.
Everything that has been done and is being planned for the future has one aim only, and that is to improve the welfare of each Kaifong's own district, so that eventually the residents of that district will develop a proper pride in belonging to it and will each have a personal interestin developing the physical, mental and moral well-being of their own community.
The three recently formed Women's Welfare Clubs con- tinue to make encouraging progress. Sewing, cooking, and domestic science classes and informal night schools are run by all three clubs, whilst the Women's Welfare Club, Hong Kong Island East, has recently opened a day-nursery at North Point which will help to meet the urgent need for such facilities which exists among many of the working-class women in this Colony.
During 1956 a start was made by the Community Develop- ment Section in visiting the numerous clansmen and district associations throughout the Colony, with the intention of developing a closer liaison with them. Up to the present very little has been known about the activities of these numerous welfare organizations.
Public Assistance. Steadily developing local industries have continued to absorb only partially the Colony's over-