tegrated and productive community. Two years ago, clothed in blue, the report gave prominence to what was being done by way of training, and last year a sober grey suit dressed an opening discussion and survey of what exactly social work was and what it meant for Hong Kong. It is not easy to pick out a single theme which deserves the focus of attention for 1964-65, a year which has been crowded and various. A selection of the highlights follows, any one of which might well have been built up into a small chapter of its own.
3. In November a White Paper entitled 'Aims and Policy for Social Welfare in Hong Kong' was tabled in the Legislative Council. This document aroused greater interest and comment from the press, organized bodies, leaders of opinion and private individuals than any other single event in the welfare field for some years. This widespread and widely varied comment, much of it critical, was welcome. The Colonial Secretary said in tabling the paper that it was published for study by the public and voluntary welfare agencies who, it was hoped, would give it thoughtful and constructive attention; and as promised, the views expressed were carefully and sympathetically examined in the following months. A debate was expected in the Legislative Council early in the next financial year. The policy statement, once settled, will provide the initial frame- work for a development plan for the near future (probably five years in the first instance) which the Department is to embark upon next, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Indeed the keynote of the policy paper is the value of co-ordination and co-operation between official and unofficial agencies in sharing the offensive against need. Later paragraphs of this report emphasize the extent to which this is already present practice, without pretending to report on all the activities of non-governmental social welfare work.
4. On 7 February 1965 the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation announced that it proposed to mark its Centenary by presenting an endowment to the Universities to provide scholarships for their social work training courses. This fine gift should serve to enhance the prestige of the social work profession and to attract some of the best of those entering the two Universities into a career as social workers. An important step taken by each of the Universities during the year and a further recognition of the importance to the community of formal training for social work was the creation of professorial Chairs in Social Studies or Social Work.
5. Juvenile delinquency again became a popular topic for editors, letter-writers and commentators last year, as did drug addiction. Both
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