Guides’ Biscuit Profits Paid For Big Camp Site

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30632, 24 December 1964, Page 2

Guides’ Biscuit Profits Paid For Big Camp Site

More than six million Giri Guide biscuits were sold in British Columbia, Canada, in 1962. At this rate of high-pressure salesmanshp. it took only about 10 years for some 29,000 members of the guide movement in the province to raise more than £25,000 for the purchase of an 80-acre block of land in the rolling meadowland overlooking Fraser \ alley.

The land has now been developed into a fine camp site with dormitory accommodation for 44 and plenty of space for those who prefer to sleep in tents, a “long house” (training hall) 60ft by 30ft, as well as the usual camp facilities.

The all-out effort was de-’ scribed yesterday by Mrs L. K Cluderay. of Vancouver. B C- a divisional commissioner and trainer who is visitrg Christchurch to attend the Pacific Giri Guide CvdemuK at Lincoln next week. Canadians, with their lore of the outdoors in the summer months. rate camping as the best type of holiday for the young to set them up for the long. eoid winter. That six million biscuits were consumed in the name of guiding is an indication of the publie support given to the project in British Columbia. "We have two kinds of camping at home—pioneer camping under canvas and cooking over charcoal, and established camping in huti with brick stoves for cooking.” Mrs Cluderay said. Because the province is heavily wooded, British Columbian guides are given special training in the prevention of forest fires. “There is a tremendous fire hazard in the forest areas from the odd match or carelessly dropped cigarette butt We have to watch very carefully during the summer and

have to get a permit to light a fire outride between May and October,” she said. English-born Dorothy Cluderay trains “brown” and “blue” guiders at the dirisicnal level. “Canada, like the rest of

the world, is very short of leaden. There is always a cry for them and this continual searching for leaders is the one tiring that spoils a eommisrioner’s work,” «he said. “There are many reasons for the shortage. Women in Vancouver already have too much to do and the age group eager to be guides has grown out of proportion to the adult population prepared to lead them. But we are now beginning to get women who ■were guides 10 or 15 years pgo. which is very satisfying.” . Two other Canadian guide officers. Miss D. Rhys (Edmonton) and Miss N. Stewart (Ontario) will also attend the conference. Others will' come from the United States. ; Australia, Fiji, Malaysia,' Tonga, Western Samoa, Cook Islands. New Guinea, New Caledonia, British Solomon | Islands and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. About 112 delegates and New Zealand staff will be in residence at: the Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, from December 30 to January 8. “The conference will provide a wonderful opportunity for guiders from different countries to get together and change ideas. I am looking forward to taking home a lot of valuable ideas from delegates from the Pacific Islands as well as Australia and New Zealand,” Mrs Cluderay said.;