THE GIRL SCOUTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 2

THE GIRL SCOUTS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Having read in your columns Archbishop Gait's Giiticism on the Girl Scbiit raevernent, I should not like your readers to misjudge the New Zealand Girl Peace Scout movement, which is a Splendidly organised association throughout the Dominion. laeut.Golonel CoSsgrove, of Chrisbchureh, who was Dominion Chief Scout for boys, seeing the good resulting from that movement, adopted and altered the scheme to suit the requirements for girls. He wrote the hook, "Peace Scouting for Girls," outlining a splendid scheme to promote the moral, mental and physical development of girls and young women, and mould their characters in teaching thiiri to be useful and loyal citizens. In every district in which the movement Uin force there fa a council of influential ladies, Whose duties are to appoint trustworthy and reliable women who are able to control and keep the girU well disciplined. A girl who has given cause for the question of her dismissal ha 3 her case placed before the council, and should the council agree to dismiss the girl, that girl is never allowed to join the scouts or wear the badge again. The girl peace scouts are in no way connected with the boye except that s6me of the games and exeTciees in scouting for boys have been adopted in the girls' scheme. The movement does not require that the girls should camp out beyond the annual o&inping at a Sea resort, where they are given the opportunities of learning swimming and life-saving. The parents of the girls are invited, as well as oil the ladies of the council. The meeting afe held in the district to which the troop belong, and therefore does not ■necessitate the girls being far from home.—l am, etc., F. E. HAYSON, District Secretary.