GIRL GUIDE CAMP

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 2

GIRL GUIDE CAMP

Week At Selwyn River

Twenty-seven guides between 12 and 15 years of age from seven companies in North and East Canterbury broke up a weeklong camp on the Selwyn river yesterday. Notable for the widely-scattered companies represented, the camp was made possible by the voluntary leadership given by senior guiders. The camp was entirely under canvas erected on the property of Mr R. B. Coe. A great asset was the well with pump on the site. All cooking was done at open fires.

Swimming was popular all the time. Several hikes including an all-day hike up the river and a tea hike. A guides’ own service was held on Sunday. Each evening the guides gathered round a camp fire for singing. Tuesday's nor’-wester made for a novel end to the week. With two tents blown down and a final sing-song round a fire out of the question, the guides spent the evening in Mr Coe’s loft. “The girls all thought it great fun,” said the camp commandant, Mrs O. J. Osborne, of Leeston, yesterday. The Canterbury provincial camp advisor (Miss E. Simes) visited the camp. Guiders for the camp were the following:— Quartermaster, Miss D. Davis (Christchurch); first aider, Miss M. Morland (Waimate); guider, Miss J. Dunnill (Oxford). With Mrs K. Happer, of Leeston, as commandant, 15 guiders from Springfield, Dunsandel and Leeston set up another camp for a week on the same site yesterday.