have a monthly attendance of about a hundred and twenty thousand. The six libraries run by the department itself in its community and social centres attract five thousand readers a day and about thirty thousand books are borrowed every month. The mobile library which was a donation from UNICEF and the Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce makes an average tour of about thirty-five miles a day, visits twenty-six 'stations' every week and reaches out to children from sixty schools in the New Territories. The gift of a trailer and visual aid equip- ment from UNICEF has made it possible for the Mobile Library team to show slides and organize film shows in New Territories' villages and such shows, at which four hundred or more people are usually present, are now both common and very popular.
26. The Children's Playground Association employs recreation leaders to introduce some form of organized recreation at both the Southorn and Macpherson indoor stadia for children and youths. The present daily attendance at each stadium is about three hundred and fifty.
27. The Hong Kong Sea School is a well-established and popular local establishment which trains boys, mainly chosen because of their needy circumstances, for a career at sea. Boys who have finished their training have at present no difficulty in finding employment, as the demand from shipping firms for properly trained young seamen remains high; about one hundred former pupils are now serving as ships' second and third mates. There were four hundred and fifty-six boys in residence at the school at the end of the year, the maximum capacity being five hundred.
28. The Social Welfare Department and various voluntary agencies working among young people once again organized a number of projects during the summer holidays for secondary and primary school students. This year over one hundred and ten thousand boys and girls received the benefit of these programmes, which covered as many as twenty-two activities ranging from interior decorating, oratory, dancing and drama to shooting, fishing and overnight expeditions. One hundred and fifty undertook a short course of training and subsequently gave a part of their holidays to helping in children's clubs and elsewhere, and others involved themselves in work-camps in the New Territories where living in the villages they carried out such tasks as building concrete paths and clearing playing fields for the benefit of the villagers, and inciden- tally for their own benefit and enjoyment in a variety of ways. Such
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