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the voluntary agencies which play such a very large part in providing schooling and welfare facilities of all kinds in every part of the Colony. In the cottage areas it has been possible for the Resettlement Depart- ment to issue permits at a nominal fee for schools and welfare centres, and many voluntary agencies are doing most valuable work in these areas in buildings which they have had constructed on the sites made available by the Department.

100. On 31st October, 1957, Lady Grantham opened the Lock Tao Maternity Home in Ho Man Tin. On an adjoining site the twelve- classroom Franciscan Missionaries' Hoi Sing School was completed in March, 1958. During the year other new projects completed were: the Assemblies of God Youth Club at Chai Wan, the Church of Christ in China Chuen Yuen School at Tai Wo Hau, the Catholic Mission Clinic at Tai Wo Ping, the Maryknoll Fathers Welfare Centre on Dragon Hill in the Ngau Tau Kok Cottage Resettlement Area, and the Healthy Village School.

101. By the end of the year the fourteen cottage areas had schools with places for a total of 10,685 children, three Boys' and Girls' Clubs, twelve welfare centres and nine clinics. Plans were also well advanced for the building next year of a Salvation Army Nursery at Tai Wo Hau, a Maryknoll clinic and nursery in Ho Man Tin, and a Kaifong Welfare Association School at Chai Wan which will provide eight classrooms.

102. There are nine Kaifong Welfare Associations working under the guidance of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, in Chai Wan, So Kon Po, Mt. Davis, Ho Man Tin, King's Park, Lai Chi Kok, Ngau Tau Kok, Chuk Yuen and Tai Hang Sai.

103. In the multi-storey estates the Resettlement Department has no sites to offer to voluntary agencies, and a different policy has had to be evolved. The open roofs of multi-storey buildings with penthouses at either end have been designed for recreation and welfare purposes and this fact has been made known by the Department of Social Welfare to all voluntary agencies, several of whom have started boys' and girls' clubs on these rooftops, for which no rent is charged. Voluntary agencies may also rent other rooms, either on ground or upper floors, for wel- fare purposes approved by the Department of Social Welfare. The urgent need for schools however was not being met by these measures and for this reason the Education Department agreed in 1957 that the rooftops of resettlement buildings could also be used for primary school purposes, the penthouses at either end being enclosed and converted

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