undesirable influences. Further, most primary schools run two sessions, so that there remains the question of employing the leisure time of children attending these schools for half the day, when there is a chronic shortage of playgrounds in most areas.
84. 210 boys' and girls' clubs run by, or affiliated to, the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association (including six operated by the Youth Welfare Section of the Department) provide the mainstay of club work, while other group activities are run by such organizations as the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A., the Salvation Army, etc. At present, for some 13,700 children between the ages of 8 and 14 years, most of whom do not go to school, such club and group activities are the only outlet. Newly opened recreation clubs on the ground floors or on the rooftops of resettlement estates and at the Wong Tai Sin Community Centre also help to meet this need, as do the expanding Scout and Guide movements, now with memberships of 7,200 and 2,300 respectively.
85. In December, the Scouts celebrated their golden jubilee with a Jamborette in which nearly 3,000 scouts and scouters participated, including 140 from 11 oversea contingents. The Girl Guides Associa- tion's Training Team was greatly encouraged when two of its members gained the Guiders' Training Diploma, the highest training qualification in the British Commonwealth. The intensive training given to enable the two Guiders to gain this higher qualification was made possible by a three month visit of an expert Trainer from England, following on a previous visit in 1960. Three other Guiders gained Training Certificates. The local team is now one of the strongest and best qualified in overseas territories. Guide literature continued to be translated into Chinese and two new publications were nearly ready at the end of the year.
86. During the year some 4,000 children from crowded slum tene- ments, resettlement estates and squatter areas were able to have a week's holiday by the sea at the Silvermine Bay Holiday Camp operated by the Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations or at the Junk Bay Camp run by the Y.M.C.A. Two more permanent holiday camps for poor children were being planned, one by the Hong Kong Conference with funds allocated by the United Kingdom World Refugee Year Committee and the other by 'Caritas', the social welfare bureau of the Roman Catholic Church.
87. Children's libraries continued to be very popular. The pioneer service organization in this field, the Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce, equipped and stocked two more libraries, at Kwun Tong
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