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which had grown to over 30,000 at the end of the year. Two-thirds of them are in Chinese.
The Colonial Secretariat library houses 9,292 volumes. These include many government publications, books written specially about Hong Kong-including publications by local authors— reference books on such subjects as public administration, sociology, economics and political science, and standard works on the history of the Commonwealth and the countries of South-East Asia. Apart from being a departmental reference library, it is a useful source for research workers in matters concerning Hong Kong and is available to members of the public.
BRITISH COUNCIL
The British Council continued to make a valuable contribution to the cultural life of the Colony during 1965. In January the New Shakespeare Company visited Hong Kong on a Council-sponsored Far East tour, and Emlyn Williams also visited the Colony under the Council's auspices. Special matinee performances for 1,500 school students were arranged on each occasion. In co-operation with the City Hall art gallery two fine arts exhibitions were shown, and a full-size cast of Henry Moore's 'Three Standing Figures' was presented to the City Hall by the Council. Assistance was given to government departments and to the two universities to enable senior staff members to visit British universities and other institutions, and to attend specialist courses in a wide variety of subjects. Ten British Council and Sino-British Fellowship Trust scholarships were awarded for post-graduate study in the United Kingdom. In the reverse direction, a number of specialists in various fields, from sport to science, visited the Colony from Britain at the invitation or with the assistance of the Council, the most eminent being Professor Dorothy Hodgkin, OM.
Membership of the two British Council libraries in Hong Kong includes approximately 2,000 full-time students, most of whom are in post-secondary institutions. Over 80,000 books were borrowed from the libraries during the year and the reading rooms, which contain some 190 British periodicals, continued to be extremely well used by students and the general public. Some 1,500 British films on medical, scientific, technological and general subjects were