and football teams, which played a total of 556 games providing free entertainment for thousands of spectators, and they equipped several playgrounds furnishing facilities for youth and adults such as miniature football pitches, basket-ball courts, a badminton and volley ball court and swings, see-saws etc. for children. The Kowloon City Kaifong sponsored for residents in their area a basket-ball goal-scoring contest and organized a swimming match in which 100 competitors participated: whilst in September, 1954, the Hunghom Kaifong erected a Public Bathing Shed with a capacity of approximately 1,500 persons. The cultural side of recreation was not neglected and the latter Association also built a Public Library at a cost of over HK$100,000.
88. In striving to promote positive health, the various Kaifongs continually encouraged residents in their districts to co-operate with the medical authorities in prophylactic measures such as vaccinations and anti-diphtheria inoculations and through the spreading of other health propaganda as in the child health contest on 16.10.54 for 500 children sponsored by the Wanchai Kaifong. Other examples of their civic spirit were to be found in their co-operation with the mobile team of the Registration of Persons Office in its task of registering the residents of various districts, in the part they played in making known to Government public opinion on such matters as con- cubinage, hawkers, street-lighting, etc. and in their assistance in spreading propaganda on preventing wastage of water, blood-donation, etc. Kaifong leaders were eager to learn from other people ways in which they might improve their own work, and in August, 1954 they sent a goodwill mission of 10 representatives to Singapore and Malaya to study the welfare work in those territories.
89. The Women's Section of the Kaifong Associations, in addition to running domestic science, baby-care, and literacy classes for some four hundred women in their districts, and providing free maternity care for needy expectant mothers, assisted in the formation of women's welfare clubs. Two such clubs have recently been established in the eastern and western
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