its members, except the Chairman, are private persons who serve in an individual capacity. Its terms of reference and membership are set out in Appendix 4. During the year the committee offered its advice to the government on a number of questions of policy, and also considered applications for subvention from forty-six voluntary organizations and recommended allocations totalling nearly seven million dollars for 1966- 67 (in 1958-59 the allocations were under $2.4 millions); it considered twenty-four applications for permission to hold flag days and advised which should be granted; and, in consequence of the funding of the proceeds of the Government Lotteries since they were started in 1962, it began to advise on allocation for capital or quasi-capital projects for welfare purposes. A list of the schemes so far approved appears at Appendix 24.
100 The Hong Kong Social Workers' Association had an active year and arranged study groups and film-shows of interest to social workers. The association continued to interpret and popularize social work as a career by organizing talks to senior students in forty-one secondary schools. Eleven sub-committees were formed to plan and carry out the association's programme, which included three 'work- shops' on casework with children and adolescents conducted by a visiting American psychiatric social worker from Seattle, Mr Tom B. COLEMAN.
101 Some of the most encouraging evidence of the willingness of the government and the voluntary agencies to work together lies in the response of the latter to the social work training programme which is reported in Chapter X. Their willingness to provide facilities for field work training of social work students and to participate in in-service training courses has also shown this.
102 The department sees its role as that of a partner with the voluntary agencies. Each has important tasks to perform, which will be carried out effectively in understanding and goodwill.
CHAPTER XI
CONCLUSION
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
103 In concluding this report it may be appropriate to mention those members of the Hong Kong public who in the past year were
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