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Hong Kong Council of Social Service and of the voluntary agencies working in their field. A fourth Principal Social Welfare Officer is responsible for the supervision of the Kowloon District Office which is the largest of all the District Offices.

29. The Senior Principal Social Welfare Officers are themselves responsible to the Assistant Director for the direct administration of the whole field of professional services provided by their respective divisions; for advising the Assistant Director on professional matters and assisting in the formulation of policy; and for the constructive planning, devel- opment and improvement of services.

30. To co-ordinate the whole of the work of the divisions of the department and to carry out administration and planning the Directorate at the Headquarters of the Department is supported by the Senior Principal Social Welfare Officers and other administrative and profes- sional assistants together with secretarial, clerical, accounting, office and maintenance staff. Departmental Headquarters also provides the secretariat for the Social Welfare Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee on Social Work Training, the Social Work Training Fund Committee, the War Memorial Fund Committee and the Community Relief Trust Fund Committee, the composition and terms of reference of which are set out in Appendix 2. A summary of the senior staff and of the establishment is given by schedules of responsibility and by cate- gories at Appendices 3 and 4. The offices, institutions and units in which they work are separately charted in Appendix 5, and as will be seen they are scattered all over Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories.

CHAPTER II

GROUP AND COMMUNITY WORK DIVISION

31. The rapid growth of population and economy in the past two decades in Hong Kong has resulted in the creation of new towns, new housing estates and resettlement programmes to provide a healthier and safer physical environment for those who live in overcrowded housing conditions and squatter areas. In 1945, there were only 650,000 people in Hong Kong, and now the population approaches four million. Since 1954 the government resettlement programme has housed over one million people; and there are plans which, if realized, will bring the resettlement population to about 1.6 million by 1971.

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