NOTES AND JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES AND JOTTINGS.

A VERY KINDLY GIFT. FAREWELL TO CHIEF COMMISSIONER. The Auckland Guides and Guiders are now tlie bappv possessors of a lovely camp home up in the Titirangi Ranges. This was a gift of our Chief Commissioner, Mrs. W. R. Wilson, and will be much appreciated by campers. Last week-end tha Rangers availed themselves of this splendid opportunity for camping, and jiad a wonderful time. This is the first time in New Zealand that Rangers have had a special camp, so the event is quite an important one in our history. • • • • Mrs. Wilson, as I suppose many of you know, has left New Zealand for a trip to America. The Guiders, as a small fift, presented her with a basket of fruit, which we hope helped to make the Main Trunk journey a little less disagreeable than it usually is. • • • • Last Monday evening Guiders had the pleasure of seeing and hearing Miss Behrens again. The usual training class became quite a social gathering—not that it is usually unsocial, very much to the contrary—and finished up with supper (of course we all had to pay for it!). During the evening Mr. R. A. Falla, from the Training College, gave a most instructive and enjoyable talk on New Zealand birds

A church parade is to be held in the Town Hall on Sunday, 12th, at 3 o'clock, and it is hoped that all Companies and Guides and Otiiders will do their best to attend. All others interested are invited to attend. • • • • PROGRESS OF GUIDING (Concluded). Towards the end of 1916 the old headquarters were burnt, and the new onea were set up at 76, Victoria Street. The first Commissioner's Conference for all England fras held at Matlock in October, 1918. About 25 were present, and there Lady Baden-Powell was unanimously chosen to become Chief Commissioner. A shop for Guide equipment was set up, and became the main support for headquarters. In 15)18 Lady Baden-Powell was officially made Chief fJuide by "the vote of the whole movement, and in the same year 7000 Guides paraded in Hyde Park before Queen Alexandra. Raliies, ferenccs, camps of all kinds followed in quiefc siKt-ession. and in November, 1019, a l>i<r rally was held in the Albert Hall, where Princess Mary first appeared in uniform. From this rally the idea of the observance of one minute's silence on Armistice Day was adopted, and has since been kept throughout the British Empire.