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conditions etc. have been popular. Group visits to schools, factories, housing estates, hospitals, government departments, the University Open Day, various departmental open days are shorter-term but involve more people. Even more people are involved in organising and joining in sports days, knock-out competitions, Christmas parties and entertainments. Over 53,000 people went to one or other of the C.D.0.s' Christmas parties and I expect Chinese New Year will see a repetition of this. More serious are the regular monthly meetings where the C.D.O. and representatives of departments often including Police, Education, Fire Services, Public Works,
Social Welfare and Urban Services Departments meet kaifong leaders and others to discuss local affairs. Some of these attend regularly while others come when some special point concerned with their departuents is discussed in depth. C.D.O. was, however, dismayed that an office concerned with a recently published report
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of considerable public interest declined to send anyone to a meeting to discuss it. The head of the office offered every help short of
attendance but he did not have the man power to undertake a large number of speaking engagements such as might well be involved once he went to one District meeting. Student conferences, the formation of a District Youth Council and joining in all sorts of regular lunch meetings of groups of business or professional men which go on all over the city also give an opportunity for more prolonged conversation. These contacts yield opinions either spontaneously or after question- ing. Often, of course, nobody is the least interested in public affairs and questions are
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