welfare associations are playing a most important part. During the year the number of schools operated by voluntary associa- tions in resettlement areas rose from eight to eleven; a children's recreation centre was erected in the Chuk Yuen area by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. A centre was opened in Homantin by the Society for the Protection of Children, and the day nursery built in the same area by the Church World Service organization was described by the Social Welfare Officer at the opening ceremony as a model of its kind. In the Chai Wan area a welfare centre was opened by the Catholic Welfare Committee and in the Tai Hang Sai area a children's centre was established by the Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. In Ngau Tau Kok the Maryknoll Mission set up a Practical Training Centre with an extensive training programme designed to cover weaving, motor mechanics, shoe-making, tailor- ing and perhaps other handicrafts. By the end of the year kaifong welfare associations were operating in eight resettlement areas and estates.
80. Most of the above developments took place in the temporary resettlement areas and it is generally true to say that welfare projects for the newly constructed multi-storey estates did not progress beyond the planning stage during the year under review. But a good deal of planning was done and the Urban Council's intention was that welfare activities in the estates should be mainly centred round the roof playgrounds which have already been described. Each building, being shaped like an H, has two separate roof playgrounds, for the centre piece of the H has to be fenced off. The Council's tentative view was that the roof of one of the long arms of the H design should be permanently open to all settlers and that the other should be reserved for welfare agencies and their organized activities. At the end of the year three applications from voluntary agencies for the allocation of these roof-tops were under favourable consideration and the Social Welfare Office was about to set up experimental Boys & Girls Clubs on one of the roofs in the Tai Hang Tung Estate.
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