GIRL GUIDES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 9

GIRL GUIDES

PEACETIME ACTIVITY

IMPORTANCE STRESSED

The high ideals of guide training were conducive to good citizenship, and guides could play an important part in peace and encourage others to take up unselfish community work, said the Mayor, Mr. Allum, when presiding at the annual meeting of the Auckland Provincial Girl Guides' Association. The award of the Silver Fish, the highest award in the guiding world, had been made to Mies Mona Burgin, commissioner for guide training in the province, it was announced. The provincial commissioner, Mrs. W. J. Rutherford, congratulated Miss Burgin.

The provincial Court of Honour, which replaces the provincial executive, had been tried for the year, as suggested by Dominion headquarters, and had proved successful. The Mayoress, Mrs. Alluni, had consented, to become first president of the new council. At the next Court of Honour, a suggestion made at a recent commissioners' conference at Waitomo, that the guide council scheme now used in England should be tried throughout New Zealand, will be discussed.

An increase in membership was reported, there being now 1603 guides, 651 brownies, 152 guiders, 92 rangers, 71 lone guides, 17 commissioners, 15 secretaries, 14 searangers, and six posts. Camping had been well attended. Other speakers were Mrs. Alan Donald, Miss Burgin, and 'Miss Noble.