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HEAD 81 - COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE SCHEMES.
Estimate 1960/61 ...
Revised estimate 1959/60
Approved estimate 1959/60
Actual expenditure 1958/59
$ 60,000
1,688,000
1,844,700
2,457,768
Final payments for development schemes in the New Territories (Scheme D. 2539) were made during 1959/60.
HEAD 82 · WORLD REFUGEE YEAR SCHEMES
Estimate 1960/61
Revised estimate 1959/60
Approved estimate 1959/60
$3,770,600
650,000
Actual expenditure 1958/59
The World Refugee Year Grants received have enabled certain projects catering mainly for refugees living in resettlement areas to be put in hand immediately.
The two Community Centres are intended to serve as the focal point for the development of a community spirit. They are being built on the standard plan for a 24-classroom school slightly modified. Voluntary welfare organizations and the Social Welfare Department will provide services such as family casework, nursery and playcentre, vocational training for young people and for the physically handicapped, library, courses for the training of social workers and group activities of various kinds.
The Junior Secondary School will be a 30-classroom school for children who have passed the Joint Primary VI Examination, but at a level insufficiently high to ensure admission to a full secondary course. The junior secondary course proposed will be of 3 years' duration and will have a strong practical bias to take account of the employment prospects of the pupils.
The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation aims to train physically handicapped people in trades which they will be able to follow as ordinary members of the community, and the grant of $512,325 from the United States Government will enable a Rehabilitation Centre for 80 patients to be built. A recurrent subvention to the Society is provided under Head 74.
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