DUTCH GUIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 10

DUTCH GUIDES.

GIFT TO PRINCESS.

Girl guides of the Netherlands made a special present for the Princess Juliana on the occasion of her wedding to Prince Bernard zur Lippe Biesterfeld. It was a fine linen table cloth, with doyleys to match. In the centre of the cloth the world guide flag was exquisitely embroidered by the most skilled needlewomen which the movement had to offer, and the rest was divided into 70 squares, each worked bv one of the 70 localities in the country where guiding is established, and bearing the Dutch trefoil and the name of the locality. Guides also shared in the present-giving by the whole country, but they felt anxious to give some s"pecial present, because the Dutch Crown Princess had, not long before her engagement was announced, promised" to become patroness of the Dutch Girl Guides. After this a joint delegation of guides and scouts went together to offer her flowers, as a token of their appreciation, and the guide correspondent in the Netherlands, Miss Ter Meuten, described how, not only did the Princess shake hands' with each of them—the left hand, of course—but took them to her rooms to show them the beautiful flowers she had there. The guide posy was verv original. The president handed her a hat filled with lovely carnations. On one side a little blue flag with a tenpointed star—the guide emblem—and on the other a small world flag with the golden trefoil were attached. On the brim the two badges of hostess and housekeeper were shown.