GIRL GUIDES' ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18202, 13 October 1924, Page 10

GIRL GUIDES' ASSOCIATION.

MEETING OF LOCAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. A meeting of.tlie Executive Committee of the Girl Guides' Association (Christchurch Branch) was held on Friday. There were present: Mrs Hen-derson-Begg (in the chair), the Provincial Commissioner, the District Commissioner, the Organising Secretary, Mesdames Francis, Irving, Beckett, Flesher, Hennali, Jellett, Thacker, Misses Julius and Sanders. Correspondence was read, including some from Headquarters in Auckland concerning the Conference of Commissioners to be lield in Auckland in November, and the District Commissioner was a'ppointed as the Canterbury representative. It is expected that matters of importance affecting the welfare of the movement in New Zealand will be dealt with at the conference. Six warrants for commissions as officers of companies were approved; and .nine new companies were registered, both facts testifying to the vitality of the movement in Christchurch. The District Commissioner reported that she was addressing a meeting at the Girls' Friendly Society Hostel in Cranmer Square that evening, and was attending at Sumner on October 11th to, enrol 25 new guides. The sub-committee for examinations for the granting of badges of proficiency reported that they had arranged for an examination in plain needlework and one in nursing, while ladies had promised their services as expert examiners in cooking and laundry work, firs*' aid, domestic science, basket-mak-ing, and other useful arts. CEREMONY AT SUMNER. On Saturday afternoon Miss Bromley Cocks, the District Commissioner of the Girl Guides, accompanied by Miss Foster, county secretary, visited Sumner for the purpose of enrolling a number of Guides who have recently decided to make the change from the Peace Scouts. These, to the number of about forty, were assembled at the Town Hall, under Miss G. Brown, and received their visitors in due form. Miss Cocks briefly addressed the gathering, outlining the scope of the work and dealing with the two great Guide laws. She then conducted the ceremony of enrolment, and afterwards discussed the formation of,a district committee of management, and the formation of ■junior Girl Guides, or "Brownies," under Mrs Sim. Amongst those also present were the Mayoress, Mrs W. H. Nicholson, Mrs jj j. Marriner, Mrs W. H. Brown, Mrs J. M. B. Crawford, Mrs Trerise, and Misses Doris and Daphne Aburn. Arrangements were made for the new troop to be present in full uniform at the parade in Cranmer square on Saturday next, when the Christchurch Girl Guides will be reviewed by Lady Jellicoe.

A novel use for the motor-T>us has been found by an old Anglo-Indian. "Fine thing for the liver, my boy!" he said, when explaining why he had taken to going for rides in these rapid convevances which aree ausing so much perturbation to the municipal authorities the Auckland "Star"). "The oniv thing that use to keep some of us old'livery chaps going," remarked the Colonel, "was riding on horseback, but riding exercise is quite imBossi'ble in a place like Auckland. Why. X don't believe there is a saddlehorse' left, and certainly you cannot hire sueh a thing. But I find the motor- 'bus on some of the longer routes is the finest substitute for a horse that vou can find. I may say that I found nnt quite by accident, but after a run out |! 0 and back I had just the same feeling that you get after a gallop The secret of the cure is, of course, that, the 'bus ride should not be too smoth, and so I, for one, will hope that this concrete-hot-rmx business of dead-level roads does not come along too quickly." Owing to the recent drowning there of three Maoris, a tapu was placed on the Wnakaki lagoon and the sea fro* ■\TaViia to Arapawanui. The tapu has noW quite unexpectedly been lifted, the Maoris arguing that twelve months was too long a period to go wlShout eniovinc the tuna, carp and shark to be obtained from the baaned area.