GIRL GUIDES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24988, 24 September 1946, Page 2

GIRL GUIDES

international conference Mrs F. C. Soper, of thmedm, a New Zealand delegate to the Girl Guides Association InternatiOfihl Conference, writing from Europe, says she spent the first week of this month at Evian, The conference will be held In the Hotel Royalfe, which is classified by Mrs Soifer as “a most luxurious hotel, overlooking Lake Geneva.” Six hundred guides were camped in the%woods round the building, and the Conference delegates saw them twice daily, at 9 a.m*, when the French tricolour and the guide world flag were hoisted, and at 5 p.m., When thfey entertained the delegates with mime and dance. Mrs Soper describes these guides as “a Vbry fine type. Strong and handsome, and they appear to have a very high regard for guiding. The Chief Guide* Lady BadenPowell* was at the conference, .and there were delegates from 24 nations. They gave brief, individual accounts of activities during the war. “Reports from European countries, crushed by the war, were astounding ih s°tne cases,’*' continues the writer, “and mafle one realise What a power guiding is that it should have endured (often secretly) under such crushing conditions.” Miss Mona Burgin (Auckland) was also attending the conference, ana in a Ifetter she details come Of the conditions in that part Of France* “The price of everything is colossal. A cup of tea and a biscuit cost Is Bd. It is impossible to shop, as prices are prohibitive—los for one very ordinary handkerchief.”