GIRL GUIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 162, 10 July 1924, Page 15

GIRL GUIDES.

THE ANNUAL MEETING. Tie annual meeting of tlie Girl Guides' A-Oclation for New Zealand took place raSay afternoon in the lounge of the ffiSl Club, and there was a large atten_S« of friends and sympathisers with the Sent Lady Gunson occupied the ST and upon the platform as well as »h«rc nf the organisation were Bishop S and Canon James. The Dominion ciimissioner, Mrs. W. U. Wilson, explained tilt the movement was discussed at a ittdng called b * tUe Mayoress of Auckland In May, 10-3, when it was decided to hold . nubile meeting, and ask Sir Alfred Piekfoid to speak on the movement. This meetlit was held in the council room on June M 823, Lady Gunson being in the chair, sir Alfred not bt'injj -'ible to be present, _r Boswell and Mrs. Wilson were asked to'speak, explaining the aims of the movement At a meeting on August 30, the rqDowtns officers were elected : —President, .[idy Gunson; executive, Mesdumes Bush, Inglls, Ford, Ely, Fullerton, Lind Mttchell, Wilson, and Miss Statham ; secretary, Miss X.. Wilson. A board of gentlema was set up, consisting of Messrs. C. J. Tunks, G. H. Wilson, T. Macky, M. r_sghey, J. F. Ewen, J. S. Milne and J. W. Court-In March, 1924, Mrs. Wilson was tppolnted organising commissioner for the Dominion, and in the same month, on iccount of- requests from all over, the country, Mrs. Wilson, with her secretary, J[rs. Ely, toured the Dominion, visiting and holding meetings in most of the important centres. As a result, Guiding was started it Hamilton, Taumarunui, Havelock North. Kelson, Christchurch, Timaru, and Dunedin. Od interest started in other places. Eoblic meetings were held and companies enrolled, and the following officers were ippolnted:—Wellington had had the posi r tlon tilled of provincial commissioner in the able person of Lady Chaytor; Nelson, Mrs. -oncrielf -was made pro. cornm.; Canterbury, tne-Hon. Mrs. Ta.hu Rhodes, secretary Hiss Foster; Dunedin, Mrs. Crarnnlt Jones, secretary Mi3s Carpenter; Timaru Divi_oi_l Coram., Mrs. Herbert Elworthy; Hastings divisional comm, Miss Drenhan. District comm. in office: Dunedin, Miss Bejnolds; Auckland, Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Uiher, Miss Averill. At each place associations have been formed with executives to manage the affairs of the province. IThe presidents of these executives are as follow.:—Wellington, Lady Jellicoe; Nelson, Mrs. Tillyard; Canterbury, Mrs. J. F. Stoflholme, and Dunedin, Lady Ferguson. He organisation is affiliated with 35 other jodeties, and the Guides are represented on tie Women's Advisory Council of the League of Nations. The movement has.now spread in a form known as The Extension Lone ''Glides,- to asylums, reformatories, industrial homes, to hospitals and cripple homes, bringing new life and interest into the heart of the lonely and less fortunate girls. The work In Otago «wa_ reported upon by Miss Station] la o»e nbsence of the Commissioner, Mrs. Carmnlt Jones, and showed mat there were G guiders and 107 guides nth 7 brownies. Miss Saunders spoke of tie trork being done in 'Canterbury under Etta guidance of the Hon. Mrs. Tahu Khodes as commissioner, and said there Jtre 22 officers and 330 guides with IS mownles. In Wellington province, which is Jnoer Lady Chaytor as commissioner, with ™ Sybil Nathan.as secretary, there were -i officers and 200 guides, with 40 brownies, v Auckland, under the commissionership « llrs. W. E. Wilson, and with Mrs. Ely «s energetic secretary, when the orgnnisnnon started, they took over three Peace MOM companies which did not e-.-eed 80 w told. To-day there are 27 guide companies and 12 brownie packs, which repreM- i/ followtn s: —Officers 40, Rangers £. (.aides 532, Brownies 200. officers tiain">tli, making a total of 537 guides.