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refresher courses for teachers. He also took part in the School Certificate examination committees. A special section on English language teaching was opened at the Council's library.
The Council arranged programmes for several academic visitors from the United Kingdom. The former Assistant Under-Secretary at the Home Office, responsible for prisons, (Mr R. D. Fairn), spent a week in the Colony. Sir Sidney Caine (a member of the Council's Executive Committee) spent two weeks here and lectured on University Education.
The annual gift of books was made to the Chinese University for its libraries. The rate of loans from the Council's own libraries continued at a very satisfactory level. Approximately 82,000 books were issued. The two libraries are concentrating more on books for students and less for the general public in view of the develop- ment of the two civic libraries.
The Council's film library and collections of music and speech records were again used extensively, mainly by schools, throughout the year.
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