to achieve this distinction, which is a real one. Measures such as these, with their emphasis on the outdoor life, are of special benefit to young people in the city. They provide a chance to pursue vigorous open-air activities, and help to counterbalance the cramping effects of crowded urban conditions.
23. The Boy Scouts Association continues to expand its work in training leaders, and creates opportunities for developing interests, discipline and service to others for eleven thousand boys aged 7 to 21. This year four members of the Association attended a Team Training Course in Malaysia, and another member was able, with a grant from the Sir Robert Black Trust Fund, to spend three months in Great Britain, visiting camp sites. A contingent of eight Scouters and Scouts attended the Eleventh World Jamboree in Greece in July.
24. The Girl Guides Association was able to recruit a Headquarters Commissioner; she was the first full-time, paid worker to be employed by the Guides in Hong Kong. Plans were also well advanced to build a New Territories headquarters. Two cadets attended the Asian Girl Guides Camp in Tokyo in July. During February Scouts and Guides turned out in full force (a total of thirteen thousand) to hold simultaneous farewell gatherings for His Excellency the Colony Chief Scout, and Lady BLACK the President of the Girl Guides Association.
25. A wide range of activities for older children is provided by a number of other organizations in the Colony, among which is the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association. As its own share of this work, the Youth Welfare Section of the Department tries to stimulate new and improved services. Typical of its efforts are its own groups at the Princess Alexandra, Tsan Yuk and Kwun Tong Community and Social Centres. The scope of these activities is shown by the following examples; at Tsan Yuk Social Centre, fifty youth group members organized a club during the summer holidays for two hundred and forty children aged 8 to 12; these members had raised over $1,000 by putting on a Chinese play to finance the entire project. Youth club members at the Kwun Tong Community Centre kept in close touch with the neighbouring Rehabilita- tion Centre, and staged plays and other programmes which the patients greatly enjoyed. A readers' club maintained similar contacts with the Princess Alexandra Children's Home.
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