Handicapped Girl Guides To Tour
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, J.une 29. Members of . the handicapped section of Giri Guides’ Association in Victoria will make a three weeks’ tour Of the North Island next January.
There will be 22 guides In the' group.> They will be accompanied by a staff of 18, including two nurses and a physiotherapist. Three of the guides will be completely helpless and six will travel in wheelchairs. They will leave by air from Melbourne on January 4. “We are all looking forward
to their visit,” the provincial secretary of the Wellington Girl Guides* Association, Mrs K. D. Craig, said tonight. According to Mrs Craig, an official from the New Zealand Giri Guides Headquarters will travel with the visitors during their time in the North Island.
“From Auckland the girls will travel to our training centre at Arahina and camp there for 10 days,” Mrs Craig said.
The group will fly back to Australia from Wellington.
It is believed this will be the first large party of handicapped people to leave Australia on tour apart from those who compete in ' the paraplegic games. A similar group of New Zealand guides visited Australia four years ago.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30480, 30 June 1964, Page 9
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