THINKING DAY FOR GUIDES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30065, 25 February 1963, Page 2

THINKING DAY FOR GUIDES

Queen’s Badges Presented Three hundred guide* and ranger* attended a Thinking l Day ceremony held by the Canterbury Girl Guides Provincial Association in St. Margaret’s College hall on Friday evening. ■Dunking Day fe observed by guide* throughout the world on February 22, which is the joint birthday of the movement’s founder. Lord Baden PoweM, and the world chief guide, Lady Baden Powell. It is the day on which all guides are encouraged to give special thought to the world-wide aspect of their movement. Friday evening’s ceremony, performed by the Godley company, took as its theme the idea of a “pigeon post.” After the world flag had been raised, a tableau symbolising the sending and receiving of greeting* between guides from all pert* of the world was enacted with paper "birds’’ flying on endless string circuits. Three guides received their Queen’s Guide badges at a presentation during the evening. They were Sylvia Copland (First Rangiora Company), Irene Gray (First Opawa Company), and Heather Sheppard (32nd St. Chad's Company). Congratulating the girls on their achievement, the Provincial Commissioner (Mir* J. H. Powell) told them congratulations should also go to those guider* who had helped them along their way, and to their parents who had encouraged them. “Now you have proved yourselves excellent guide*, I hope you will all help to put something back into guiding,” she said. Mrs Powell presented the Queen’s Guide badges. Other awards presented by Mrs Powell were as follows: Miss J. Newsom (Divisional Commissioner), medal of merit for outstanding service to the guide movement; Mrs T. Moonlight (District Commissioner), and Miss M. Wood (guide trainer), oak leaves for very meritorious service; Carol Eder (Ist Rangiora Company), Queen’s Guide scroll.