young workers and others from a still wider field. After a successful pilot experiment for girls, the Scheme has now been made available to all the girls in the Colony and over two hundred are already taking part. Various adult bodies are being pressed to take an interest in the Scheme in order that some of their members might become leaders or instructors for the participating boys and girls.
25. The Tsuen Wan Youth Recreation and Training Centre run by the Department continues to provide accommodation for groups of about fifty boys and girls who would like to stay out for a few days either at weekends or during the week-or even for a single night-and then to carry on with their expedition elsewhere. During the year nearly eighteen hundred young people from forty-one organizations and schools used the Centre. Trekking and hiking in the New Territories are also encouraged through a small group of village schools which the Education Department has equipped to accommodate up to ten young people each a night, on youth hostel lines. Canoeing has been another great success, in waters well suited for it. Measures such as these, with their emphasis on the outdoor life, are of special benefit to young people in the city. They provide a chance to pursue vigorous open-air activities, and help to counterbalance the cramping mental and physical effects of crowded urban conditions.
26. The Boy Scouts Association continues to expand its work in training leaders, and creates opportunities for developing interests, discipline and service to others among eleven thousand boys aged 7 to 21. Four members of the Association attended the Eleventh Far East "Train- ing-the-Team' Course in Thailand in November, and two were observer delegates at a series of international conferences sponsored by the Far East Office of the World Scout Bureau, held at Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in December. These participations have been made possible through the generous assistance of the Sir Robert Black Trust Fund and the Asia Foundation respectively. The Association is now building another camp at Ha Fa Shan in the New Territories.
27. The Girl Guides Association was delighted to be able to open its New Territories Headquarters in the Kin Sun Hut at Ping Shan, which will also be used for training purposes. A new camp site around the shoulder of the hill beyond Tai Mong Tsai at Sai Kung, as well as a new Headquarters, are being planned. The Association was much honoured to welcome Lady TRENCH as its new President and Chairman of the Council.
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