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leave. Three local officers, who had been studying law with the aid of Colonial Development and Welfare scholarships, were called to the Bar in 1957 and have returned to the Colony. A sum of about $500,000 is spent annually on these
overseas courses.
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The Government also takes the fullest possible advantage of the seminars, study tours and other forms of training provided by the United Nations and the specialized agencies under both the United Nations Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance and the regular technical assistance programmes of individual agencies. During 1957 local par- ticipants, including both Government servants and non- officials, attended seminars concerning Rehabilitation (Indonesia), the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Japan), Civic Responsibilities and Increased Participation of Asian Women in Public Life (Thailand), Training for Community Development and Social Work (Pakistan), all under the auspices of the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration; a Unesco Seminar on the International Standardization of Educational Statistics (Thailand), and Symposium on the Phytochemistry of Tropical Plants in South-East Asia (Malaya); an Interna- tional Labour Office Seminar on the Training of Supervisors for Industry (Singapore); a Food and Agricultural Organiza- tion Study Tour on Agricutural Extension Work (Japan, India and the Philippines), and a Fisheries Training Centre (Australia). The World Health Organization supplied fellowships in Public Health (Singapore) and Mental Health (United Kingdom and U.S.A.), and accepted local par- ticipants for a Study Group on Social and Preventive Medicine (Philippines) and a Public Health Conference and Study Tour (Japan). The Colony was also represented at a Seminar on Engineering and Traffic Aspects of Highway Safety (Japan) organized by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. The World Meteorological Organization, under the Expanded Programme, provided a
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