hopes to lay greater emphasis on education on both services in future years. A series of 'Cantonese by Radio' programmes for beginners attracted considerable interest and at the end of the year work was in hand for the production of an intermediate and advanced series. Mean- while two series of programmes for Form 1 students, teaching English and Chinese literature were in preparation. Through the courtesy of E.M.I. (H.K.) Ltd., Radio Hong Kong was able to offer the Education Department a demonstration of educational television in September 1962. The Company made available an educational television studio unit, consisting of a camera, set lighting, film and slide projection equipment and display monitors. This was installed in the Keswick Hall of the Technical College at Hung Hom. The Education Department provided teachers and programme material, and Radio Hong Kong the production staff. A series of eleven demonstration programmes were produced, and shown to over two thousand teachers and educationalists during the week 15th - 22nd September. Designed as they were to illustrate some of the many uses to which television could be put in education the programmes provided valuable information for both educationalists and broadcasters.
10. In August 1962, the Colony was represented for the first time at an international broadcasting conference when the Director of Broad- casting attended the 4th Asian Broadcasters Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Twenty-two countries took part in the Conference, which discussed a wide range of programme, engineering and legal problems. The major decision taken at this meeting was to form an Asian Broad- casting Union on similar lines to the European Broadcasting Union. A working group of six nations later met in Tokyo in December to draft the constitution of the Union, which is to be presented for con- sideration of countries attending the 5th Asian Broadcasters Conference in Seoul in October 1963. As a dependent territory, Hong Kong will not be eligible for full membership of the Union, but will be eligible for associate membership, which provides for all rights other than voting at the Union's Council meetings.
CHINESE SERVICE
11. The Chinese Service of Radio Hong Kong is broadcast principal- ly in Cantonese, the major dialect of the Colony, although there are also daily bulletins of news and special announcements in Kuoyu (Mandarin) Chiu Chow and Hakka.
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