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with local experts in their fields. Subjects covered included blood transfusion, chemistry, orthopaedics, industrial design, mathematics, medicine, technical and physical education, and librarianship. Among the visiting specialists were Dr F. Stratton, Director of the National Transfusion Service, Manchester Regional Hospital Board; Mr E. W. Somerville of Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; Mr K. C. Harrison, City Librarian, Westminster Public Libraries, and President of the Commonwealth Library Association; Professor Peter Strevens, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Language Centre, University of Essex.

On the arts side the council sponsored an exhibition of sculpture and reliefs by Mr Chan Ping-tim, a local artist, in July. Some 300 people attended the exhibition.

The two libraries at Gloucester Building in Central and Star House in Kowloon loaned more than 72,000 books to 8,200' members. These readers, mainly students, also made full use of the reading rooms for study, where they were provided with more than 200 British newspapers and magazines on a wide range of subjects.

The council again provided at Star House the venue for the English section of the Hong Kong schools music festival. Educational films from a library of locally held prints were lent to a large number of schools and other institutions. Feature films of artistic and literary interest, and specialist medical films were obtained from London and shown to schools, university departments, and hospital staff.

During 1974 there were two book exhibitions organised by the British Council— the first on business and industrial management, and the second on architecture, town planning and industrial design. The exhibitions were displayed at the two council libraries in March and in September respectively-and were attended by about 1,400 visitors, including lecturers, librarians, business managers, industrial executives, architects, book-sellers, teachers and students.

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The council continued to give advice and information to students leaving for higher studies in Britain. Close co-operation was maintained with the Education Department, and a large number of students were assisted and met by the British Council on arrival in London.

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