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Late in 1950 Miss Wilson, a former Guide Commis- sioner for Scotland, paid a sixteen weeks' visit in order to advise the local Girl Guides Association on training and organization. During the visits of Miss Wilson and Mr. Dahl the Social Wel- fare Office kept in the closest touch with them, and was able to be of service to them in a number of ways.
In December, 1950 the Girl Guides' Association agreed to invite the Social Welfare Office's Principal Youth Welfare Officer to attend their Council meetings so that the Social Welfare Office would be better informed on the ways in which he could be of help to the Association.
In November, 1952 Mr. Hudson arrived in Hong Kong to take up the post of Organizing Commissioner to the local Boy Scouts Association. This appointment resulted from the 1951 Dahl Report.
29. Before 1949 there was no machinery either for co- ordinating the youth services in Hong Kong, or for enabling interested organizations to exchange their ideas and share some of their limited resources. During 1949 the Rt Rev. Bishop Hall invited the representatives of some of these organizations, and of the Social Welfare Office, to meet and discuss their problems informally. Out of this, with the help and backing of the Social Welfare Office, arose the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations, which was set up on 19th December, 1949. The powers of this Conference were consultative and advisory, whilst all executive decisions remained in the hands of the individual member organizations. The Social Welfare Officer and the Director of Education were full members of the Conference, the other members being the Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association, Boy Scouts' Association, Children's Playgrounds Association, Chinese Young Men's Christian Association, Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre, Chinese Young Women's Christian Association, Salvation Army, and the Social Service Group, Hong Kong University.
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