APPENDIX 2-Contd.

List 'A'

(Made on recommendation of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee)

Salvation Army:

Brought Forward

***

***

**

(a) Castle Peak Boys' Home (b) King's Park Orphanage (c) Kwai Chung Girls' Home (d) Discharged Prisoners Aid Shanghai Street Children's Centre Silvermine Bay Holiday Camp ... Society for the Relief of Disabled Children Society of St. Vincent de Paul ..... St. Christopher's Home ...

...

4

Actual Expenditure

1956/57

1957/58

$1,232,451

$3,099,349

175,000

164,000

235,208

80,000

51,851

54,000

15,000

15,000

25,000

33,000

20,000

20,000

10,000

10,000

10,000

42,904

45,000

$1,807,414

$3,530,349

Sub-total

List 'B*

(Subventions under other Departments)

Aberdeen Trade School ...

Hong Kong War Memorial Fund Committee

Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund

44

Po Leung Kuk

Port Welfare Committee

Sub-total

TOTAL

* 1

$

47,500 $ 47,500

18,000

18,000

20,000

20,000

35,250

35,250

90,000

90,000

$ 210,750

$ 210,750

$2,018,164

$3,741,099

APPENDIX 3

CHILD WELFARE SECTION

THE ADOPTION ORDINANCE No. 22 of 1956

(date of commencement: 12th October, 1956)

STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1ST APRIL, 1957 to 31st March, 1958

(See Paragraph 23)

Applications for adoption pending on 1st April, 1957

60

Applications received during the year ...

138

198

Adoption Orders made by the Supreme Court during the year Interim Orders made by Court

53

1

Applications refused by Court

3

Applications withdrawn or cancelled

46

Total of cases disposed of during the year

:

103

Applications pending on 31st March, 1958

95

31

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