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10. The Probation Officers are mainly engaged in making enquiries about boys on remand, and in visiting boys on probation. The Probation Officers make their reports personally to the Magistrates in charge of the Juvenile Courts.
11. During the year, 1,381 boys were received into the Home, as compared with 1,864 for 1935. This reduction is accounted for by the opening of the special cell at Yaumati Police Station for the temporary detention of juvenile offenders in Kowloon, pending their appearance before the Magistrate.
12. The Police Magistrates have been very helpful in preventing adults from getting into the Home by understating their age, and it is due to this, that there was no trouble with the boys during the year.