GUIDE NOTES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21512, 29 June 1935, Page 10

GUIDE NOTES

(By the provincial Secretary; Cobblers' Badge—This badge has been gained by H. Shapcott (Addington Methodist Company) and B. Payne (Linwood Company). Guiders' Club —The first meeting of the club will be held in the Jockey Club rooms on Thursday, July 4, at 7.30 p.m. All guiders and rangers are asked to make a special point of attending. . Badges—All names should be mon the first of the month. Badges for next month are:—Needlewoman, Pathfinder, Scribe, and Houskeeper (for rangers only). The -new P.O.R. will be adhered to for all tests from August 1.

Chief Guide's Report The Chief Guide. Lady BadenPowell, has sent to the Chief Commissioner a report on her New Zealand tour, in which she has given her impressions of the movement as she found it in the Dominion. The Chief Guide writes: — "The guides appear to me to be weil up to standard, and a high standard at that. When I have seen them at the various rallies I have been very much impressed with their smart appearance; their alert and upstanding bearing when I have seen them marching past has given me the impression that they are of strong physique and that they are taking a pride in making and keeping themselves physically lit. The displays of games, gymnastics, pagentarv, and guide work generally have been extraordinarily well carried out, showing the manysided activities that have been taken up by the companies and proving that they do not do things by halves. The examples of badge work shown fyave, I think, been on very good lines. "The rallies themselves have been outstandingly good in every way. I should like to offer my congratulations to the people specially responsible for the carrying out and planning of these big gatherings, as I know only too well what an immense amount of thought and preparation they mean. Growth of the Movement "The very iarge number of service stars in New Zealand shows that most of your workers have grasped the essential fact that guiding is a game, and a game with a deep purpose behind it, that it must be kept interesting and enjoyable, and be played with' the girls with a kindly personal understanding of the needs of each individual. I understand that like most countries you are short of guiders, and I would like to urge that each one does what she can to interest other people so that " may be for ever widening our circle of activity. If guiding is of the very real value that it proved to be for those who are already benefiting by the guide training, then we would obviously all like to see it. brought within the reach of the large number of girls who are yet not touched by its influence. If each good guider could bring in a new guider every year, what strides we should make in our movement, and

what a big thing we would be doing for New Zealand girlhood. Suggested Developments "You appear here in New Zealand to have caught the ear of thinking people, and it is gratifying to find how ready these are to near about our work and to give it their approval. But I hope that this approval will not confine itself to words and that you will be able to ,??t practical support for such things as: (a) The loan of camp ground, <b) the supplying of equipment, (c) offers of help in the teaching of various nobbies by tho.se with specialised 1 -owledge, (d) greater support from those fond of outdoor life in bringing camping within the reach of more guides, (e) the fullest possible financial support not only locally, but if possible a definite annual contribution to the central organisation of the movement in the wnole of New Zealand." '.lie Chief Guide suggests that it might be w.rth while to get into closer touch with some of the other organisations of women and girls in New Zealand. "New Zealand is, I consider, lucky in her press," she adds. "The newspapers seem to be filled with good material presented in a wholesome way—better than in most countries I have visited—and I have been impressed by their readiness to print information about guides and their doings. This is of great value in giving us the chance of placing before the public accurate information about our aims and progress."