THE CHIEF GUIDE

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25427, 25 February 1948, Page 2

THE CHIEF GUIDE

LADY BADEN POWELL ARRIVES IN N.Z. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. After a strenuous tour of Australia, which was preceded by an equally strenuous visit to Canada, Lady Baden Powell, World Chief Guide, arrived at Wellington by the Wahine to-day from Sydney. She was met by Miss Ruth Merrick, of Dominion Chief Commissioner for Girl Guides.

Because her Commonwealth tour has made such demands on her, Lady Baden Powell will spend a month resting in New Zealand before beginning an official tour of the Dominion in April. She will remain here until the end of May, when she will return to England. She is staying at Heretaunga. Lady Baden Powell’s present tour is being made to foster the growth of the Girl Guide movement, and to meet and address guides and their leaders everywhere. While on her way to New Zealand in the Wahine, a message from the World Chief Guide was broadcast in guiding countries to mark “thinking •day,” which fell on February 22. This date is Lady Baden Powell’s birthday and was also the birthday of Lord Baden Powell.

The eighth annual report of the Christchurch Sub-Centre of the Red Cross Society, presented at the annual meeting yesterday, recorded with regret the deaths of two useful members, Mrs H. G. G. Lyttle and Mrs H. E. H. White. Sympathy with their relatives was expressed. Mrs Jennie Baines, a .former Children’s Court Magistrate in Australia, who recently celebrated her eightyfirst birthday, was in her youth one of the original militant suffragettes led by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst in England. She was photographed on her birthday wearing at her waist a bag which had carried gun metal for breaking windows in her suffragette days. For her part in the Votes for Women Movement she was in gaol many times and went on five hunger strikes, one lasting 11 days eight hours. In 1913, when she left England for Australia, arrangements for her departure were kept secret. When she was 10 years old, Mrs Baines, who then lived in Birmingham, worked with her mother in a gun factory during the Zulu war and their joint wage was 8s a week.

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