..ich are approved by the International Headquarters of Scouter Training, whilst two Guiders, one of them a member of the Youth Welfare Section of the Department, went to Australia in December for an intensive five weeks training in guiding and camping. On their return, one of the guiders opened a Chinese-speaking junior cadet company and the other organized training for Brownie Guiders.
14. In the field of Moral Welfare, a member of the Women's and Girls' Section of the Department was sent to take the one year course at Josephine Butler Memorial House, Liverpool. Also in the United Kingdom is an officer from the Special Welfare Services Section who is studying social survey methods at the London School of Economics. The second prize in the Teachers of the Blind Course in the United Kingdom was won by a teacher from the Canossa Home for the Blind in Hong Kong.
15. Lectures given at the London School of Economics on services for handicapped persons and the aged were attended by the Assistant Director (Special Welfare Services) during her leave, when she also represented Hong Kong at the Seventh World Congress of the Inter- national Society for Welfare of Cripples in London. Accompanied by the Commissioner of Prisons, the Assistant Director (Probation) attended as a delegate of the Hong Kong Government the Second United Nations Seminar on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders for Asia and the Far East, which was held in Tokyo from 25th November to 7th December, 1957.
16. A ten day Seminar on 'Social Group Work among Youth', the first international conference in any field of social work to be held in Hong Kong, was organized by the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations and took place between 27th November and 6th Decem- ber, 1957. Nineteen participants from Brunei, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore and Sarawak attended, in addition to representatives of twelve of the member organizations of the Standing Conference and two local observers. Papers on 'Practical Social Group Work', 'Group Work with Children and Youth', 'Training for Group Work', etc. were read and discussed and participants visited a series of specialized institutions in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was represented by Miss Dorothy Lee, Assistant Director (Youth Welfare), at the United Nations Seminar on 'Training for Social Work' held in Lahore in December, 1957.
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