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and district, provide not only a convenient means of assuring such co-operation, but also a stimulus to public spirited members of the community to take their part in these fundamer

mportant activitiea.

5. Part 4 of the Colonial Office Report on Welfare (Misc.504) should be used for guidance on certain important aspects of social welfare work which are not the special interest or concern of other Departments of Government such as Education, Medical etc. 6. The Colonial Office Memorandun, C.M. No.2, regarding the

United Nations Food Conference and Colonial Nutrition Policy, and the Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration

prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as

they are applicable to local conditions.

The legislation relating to the Protection of Women and

Girls and Mui Tsai should be fully enforced at the earliest possible

stage.

II. Town Planning

As soon as practicable after the liberation of the

territory Town Planning Schemes should be prepared.

2. A Town Planning Department should be set up and should be represented on the Social Welfare Advisory Committee.

The Colonial, Office Memorandum on housing, C. M. No.1, should be used for guidance in so far as it is applicable to

local conditions.

III. Soulal Security

Social Security policy should be framed in the light of the Colonial Office Memorandum on Social Security for Colonial Territories, C.M. No. 5. June, 1944.

IV. Census

2.2

As soon as practicable after reatoration of the Civil Government a population census should be taken, but in less retail, as regards length of residence and degree of education, than was

required in the 1931 census.

Colonial office,

8th October, 1945.

REDCRE

OFFICE