GUIDE NOTES

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21133, 7 April 1934, Page 8

GUIDE NOTES

jHr TJIIO J'KOVIXCIAL SLCKKTA KT.) Miss V. Slcvcns. First Gcraldino Company, h;>s passed her captains warrant test paper. A farewell Letter From Mrs Wilson "1 have set myself a very hard task —to write a farewell letter to the guide world of New Zealand. May 1 I begin by saying that I have been completely overcome by (I think I can safely say) the hundreds of letters I have received from commissioners, executive committees, company committees, guiders, rangers, posts, and lones. Your very beautiful messages and words pf appreciation for anything I have done have repaid me tenfold for even the loss of my health. 1 certainly have not been amongst those poor unfortunate people who only have trie nice tilings said about them when they have passed beyond hearing them. "It has all made a very humble person of me, and I just want to say, if I have helped to make your outlook in life a little brighter, a little better, or a little clearer, well all the praise goes to the fact that I have ever tried to keep before me that great motto, which you put upon that glorious standard you gave me: 'Faith. Love. Service.' My faith gave me the joy and love to serve, and now my reward has come in knowing I have been of some little help to you, I really do not think 1 can leave a higher message with you than those three words—life without them is only failure, and guiding must stand for all that is highest and best which means success. The joy I have had in working with and for you all has certainly made these last difficult years of my guide life possible. You can never know the great place you have held in my life, and to say merely 'Thank you' sounds so feeble and inadequate to what 1 feel. "In your new Chief Commissioner. Miss Herrick, you will find a very capable and keen and interested head, and I can wish Miss Herrick no greater joy than has been mine in shepherding you all along life's difficult road, and getting the thrills and delight in seeing you growing all the time into a real true example of what guiding should represent to the world. "May you go on growing from strength to strength in numbers. Yes, but in spirit too. That is everything that counts. "My love and thanks to each one of you for all you have meant to me and done for me." Thinking: Day Pennies Donations have been received from the following:—Thirty-fourth St. Matthew's Sixth Fendalton, Twenty-sec-ond Riccarton, St. Mary's, Timaru, Rugby street, and St. Lukes. Easter Camp The thirty-second Tennyson Street Company (Captain Mrs Walton) had a very enjoyable camp at Aumoe. The camp was in the charge of Miss Barnes, who drew up the programmes and arranged the work for the different patrols. Mrs Walton was Quarter-master, and Miss Walker. Acting Captain for the new Roman Catholic Company in Fisher street, Beckenham, also came, and stated .she thoroughly enjoyed her first guide camp. The camp (ire was held on Saturday evening: there was not a dull moment with songs, recital ions, and games. The fancy dress party was a great success, the first prize going to Myrtle Morion, who was swathed in bath towels and everything to do with the bath. The camp finished on Tuesday in the most perfect weather. Badges Cyclists and Athletes—All those entering for these badges are to at- j lend at Hagley Park on Saturday, , April 14, at 1 p.m. sharp.