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this department by Medical and Health Department during 1960/61. The Stores and equipment vote shows an increase of $37,000 to meet the anticipated increase of tools and stores, etc. to be purchased. Other notable increases are: $20,000 under Fuel, light and power: $10,000 under Uniforms and $10,000 under Casual labour. There are two new subheads: $500 under Subsistence allowances for married officers who are required to live and work in Cheung Chau and $2,000 under Health education for improvement of hygiene standards in New Territories.

Under Special Expenditure $150,000 is required for Public Amenities, Parks and Playgrounds; $6,000 for the purchase of 1 catamaran; $2,000 for litter bins; $2,400 for 6 loudhailers for health work; $26,000 for motor vehicles ($20,000 for 2 utility vans and $6,000 for 2 motor cycles); $28,000 for 2 rafts; $207,000 for refuse collecting vehicles ($201,000 for 3 prime movers and 9 trailers and $6,000 for 12 ramps); $3,500 for 5 rocking resuscitation stretchers for beaches and $42,000 for 1 street washing vehicle.

HEAD 81 - COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE SCHEMES

Estimate 1961/62

Revised estimate 1960/61

Approved estimate 1960/61 ..

Actual expenditure 1959/60 ..

$ 658,300

36,000

60,000

1,540,656

The site development work at So Uk has been completed, but the final accounts cannot be settled pending arbitration proceedings which have become necessary because the original contractor did not fulfil his contract.

The aeronautical telecommunication scheme provides for the setting up of two very high frequency omni-range stations at Tathong Point and Stonecutters Island, respectively, to provide track guidance for aircraft using either approach to the new runway.

HEAD 82- - WORLD REFUGEE YEAR SCHEMES

Estimate 1961/62

Revised estimate 1960/61

Approved estimate 1960/61

$6,825,700

2,196,000

3,770,600

623,633

Actual expenditure 1959/60

The World Refugee Year Grants received have enabled certain projects catering mainly for refugees living in resettlement areas to be put in hand immediately. Details of the sources of these grants are set out in the footnotes to this Head.

The Post-Secondary Colleges provide mainly for students who have come from China and who, before 1949, would have sought their higher education there. The proposed improvements will assist in the proper development of these colleges which, it is hoped, will in time bring them up to University standard. Other grants to these colleges are provided under Head 75.

The Secondary Modern 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 Community Centres are intended to serve as focal points for the development of a com- munity spirit. They are being built on the standard plan for a 24-classroom school slightly modified. Volun- tary 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 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. A Rehabilitation Centre for 80 patients is being built. A recurrent subvention to the Society is provided under Head 74.