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3. to encourage joint action on the part of the churches,
Christian crganizations and individuals in countering part-
icular social evils.

Work of this Committee during the year included the following:

A. Support of the mass education campaign against Drug-Addiction
Drug addiction has become a major social problem in Hong
Kong in the past few years and grows more serious every day.
The cost of this evil tr a ffic both in money and in human
life is enormous. Not only does it effect the addicts themselves
but it inevitably has tragic consequences for their fam ilies.
The whole society suffers economically, and morally, .and through
the loss of the constructive power of those whose lives have
been ruined by drugs.
In order to help Christians realize the dreadful Consequences
of taking drugs, w illing to accept and understand the addicts and
to help those unfortunate victims to build a new life of respon­
s ib ility and dignity, the Committee supported the work of the
Action Committee Against Narcotics, and sent pamphlets and study
materials to a ll loca l churches and Christian Organizations
urging them to support the anti-narcotics campaign' so as to
help to eradicate the malignant growth of drug-taking in Hong Kong.

B. Support of the Good Neighbourhood Movement:
The Committee supported the YWCA in organizing .an essays,
drawings .and posters contest in connection with the good neigh­
bourhood movement. The secretary of this Committee served as
one of the three judges for the essay contest. The opening
ceremony of the Exhibition of good neighbourhood movement Eaaays,
drawings and posters contest was held on Friday, 3rd March 1967
at 5:00 p.m. at the Exhibition Hall of City Hall. Thousands of
Citizens viewed the fine work done by hundreds of contest part­
icipants.

C. Protest to the i s suing of Bar l i c ences in Kowloon and Hong Kong
During the year, the Committee made a survey on the number
of bars being operated in Tsim Sha Tsui area and found that there
were more than 80 bars in a area of less than half a square mile
(Scattered from Salisbury Road to Jordon Road, Kowloon.) Members
of the Hong Kong Christian Council as well as many other Christ
ian Organizations and non Christian Agencies have expressed
their concern and opposition to this social evil because in
many cases, there bars are another form of prostitute houses.
This matter was brought up for discussion at the Council's Execut­
ive Committee February meeting and it was unanimously voted that
the Council should write a letter on behalf of the churches to
the Secretary of the Licencing Board registering our objection
to the issuing of bar licences to those blackedout bars expecially
in the Tsim Sha Tsui area.
At the invitation of the Licencing Board, the Chairman and
Secretary of the Christian Citizenship Movement Committee together
with Secretaries of related Christian Organizations in the Christ­
ian Centre attended a special meeting held on 13th' March, 1967 at
2:30 p.m. to present the reasons for our objection: a period of
question and answer followed. We were assured that the Licencing
Board would consider our views seriously and it seemed unlikely
that bar licences w ill be issued to those questionable bars.

3• Church Unity Committee
During the year Hong Kong was the scene of a number of important
Church Conferences and gatherings involving theologicans and delegates
from a ll Asian countries. The most important of these was the Asian
Faith and Order Conference. This brought together at the end of
October, over 125 representatives from Churches in Asia, Europe,and