early evening news bulletin from the B.B.C. was followed by 'Commentary' which dealt with a wide range of current news topics.
98. Local news coverage was improved during the year, and more local news items were included in the bulletins prepared by the Public Relations Office.
Local news actuality returned with 'This Week' which came back on the air in February, and brought an average of four news items per week. The programme is built up around inter- views and actuality descriptions. News items of sufficient topical interest are occasionally broadcast on the day of their happening.
Sport.
99. The centre of the week's sports broadcasting was 'Sports Cavalcade', the Saturday magazine which brings together sports- men of every kind to talk and discuss, gives the latest results of sporting matches and included brief commentaries on the high- lights of events not covered in full. As with the Chinese section, soccer occupies the position of honour in sports com- mentaries, but cricket, boxing, and rugby also feature.
Commentaries on soccer matches in Hong Kong included those in which Hong Kong played Israel, the Indian and United States Olympic teams, South Korea and Malaya. John Wallace's most difficult task was a commentary on the exhibition game of American football between two United States Air Force teams.
Brig Young, who had been the mainstay of sports broadcast- ing for many years, left the Colony during the year for Kuala Lumpur and his place as sports editor with John Wallace was taken by Ted Thomas.
100. The cross-harbour swimming race was covered by recorded commentaries, and fuller coverage than before was given to the Macau Grand Prix, again the result of close liaison between the staff of Radio Hong Kong and Radio Vila Verde.
101. From outside Hong Kong, the sporting event of the year was the 1956 Olympic Games held in Melbourne. Daily reports on the games were relayed from the B.B.C. and from Radio Australia, who also provided some useful introductory broadcasts in recorded form before the Games began.
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