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students who frequent them. Circulation figures were over 85,000 issues annually, and on any one day of the year some 3,500 books were out on loan.
Book presentations to the value of $42,000 were made to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and smaller presentations were also made, on Youth Work to the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, on Management Studies to the Extra-Mural Department of Hong Kong University, as well as to various colleges and secondary schools.
Assistance was given to government departments, the Hong Kong Teacher's Association, the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, and the two universities, to enable staff to visit British universities and other institutions, and to attend specialist courses, or go on tour. Nine British Council scholarships (six for training in the Teaching of English as a Second Language), and two Sino-British Fellowship Trust scholarships, were awarded for post-graduate studies in the United Kingdom with a further two grants-in-aid. Various specialists visited the Colony under council auspicies for lecture engagements and consultations with govern- ment departments. Subjects covered included Librarianship (Science Information Work), Modern British Art, Youth and Community Service, VI Form Curriculum Development, Adult Education, Chippendale Furniture and the Chinese Influence, Local Govern- ment Studies, Drug Addiction, the British Cinema, Polymer Technology, Nursery Schools, Botany, and Higher Education.
On the arts side the council' arranged for the large Henry Moore exhibition of sculpture, assembled by the council for the British Week in Tokyo, and opened there by Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret, to come on to Hong Kong, as well as an important exhibition of British Prints, the work of up and coming artists of the younger generation. Both of these were held at the City Hall. Exhibitions of local Hong Kong artists were also sponsored at the council exhibition hall in Star House, notably those of Hon Chi Fun, and the Circle Group. The council also provided, at Star House, the venue for the English section of the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival.