nursery in the Lady Trench Training Centre which is being planned. This centre, which will provide for the training not only of people for work in child care centres and institutions, but also for youth leaders and recreation workers, is under active planning. Discussions with the voluntary field on course content etc. have been in progress, and architec- tural planning has made headway during the year.
128. The Social Work Training Fund received no further capital con- tribution during the year but still succeeds in meeting all its immediate commitments from income, the capital remaining intact at $3,488,933. The grants during the year were used mainly to continue the support of the academic courses at the two universities and to assist social workers from voluntary agencies and Government in obtaining professional training at universities in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States of America. The Fund also financed the attendance of two delegates from the two universities at the Seminar on Relationship of Social Work Education to Developmental Needs and Problems in ECAFE Region in Bangkok, Thailand. Disbursement from the Fund amounted to $272,755.57 as against $401,504.05 in the previous year. The functions and membership of the Funds committee are set out at Appendix 2; more detailed information is contained in a separate report by the Trustee of the Fund.
129. The Government continued to provide bursaries for students at the University of Hong Kong, both for the diploma and the certificate courses, as well as for students taking the arts degree with the ultimate intention of proceeding afterwards to the diploma course. Bursaries were also provided to students of the Chinese University taking social work courses at Chung Chi and United Colleges. The total value of bursaries awarded during 1967-68 was $79,200.00 held by three diploma students at the Hong Kong University and thirty-three social work students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
130. In 1967-68 the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation presented a total of $50,000 for scholarships in social work to ten students, five in the University of Hong Kong to take the diploma course and five in the Chinese University of Hong Kong to take the degree course. The American Women's Association also presented $5,000 to provide scholarships for five social work students in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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