uan 3,500 club members by the prize winners. Club children were taken on regular outings to factories and Government Departments such as the Fire Brigade. 1,159 girls and 2,070 boys from poor families and Homes spent a week's holiday at the camp at Silvermine Bay on Lantao Island which is managed by the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations. Most of these children were members of boys' and girls' clubs and many had the first chance in their lives of spending a week's holiday in the country. The Y.M.C.A. Lions Club Camp at Junk Bay started during the summer. It is proposed to organize the camp on the cottage system to accommodate between 150 and 200 children during each camping period.
32. A record number of children and young persons used the children's Libraries set up by the Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce and run by the Children's Playground Association at the Queen Elizabeth II Youth Centre in Kowloon and the War Welfare Memorial Centre in Wan Chai during the year; attendances totalled 211,630. Libraries run by the Department in Clubs were also well patronized. The Mobile Library presented to the Department by the Junior Chamber of Commerce served children who could not find places in schools, both in the New Territories and in the Resettlement Estates.
33. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Scouting in Hong Kong, the first Jamborette was held at Kam Tin in October 1957. 1,400 Scouts spent four busy and very happy days under canvas, They included a number of Scouts from clubs, special schools and institutions. Hong Kong Scouts were represented by nine Scouts and three Scouters at the Jubilee Jamboree held in England in July 1957. The Girl Guides Association also sent contingents to the Regional World Camps held in the Philippines and in England. Both the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides Association have extended their scope to include physically handicapped, blind and deaf children.
34. The acute need for low cost hostel accommodation for young workers has been met in some degree by two hostels housing a total of 100 factory girls run by the Y.W.C.A., three hostels for a total of 500 young people run by the Y.M.C.A. and the Thomson Memorial Hostel run by the Salvation Army for nearly eighty young apprentices. The Y.W.C.A. Maurine Grantham Centre (see paragraph 18) will, when completed in 1958, accommodate about 150 working girls and young
women.
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