Sixth To Earn Queen’s Guide Award In Year

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30725, 14 April 1965, Page 2

Sixth To Earn Queen’s Guide Award In Year

Jill Proctor was presented with her Queen’s guide award by the north division commissioner, Miss E. Simes, at a candle-lighting ceremony recently.

Jill, who is 15, and has been both a brownie and a guide at Merivale, is now a member of the 4th Christchurch Senior Guide Company, the senior group attached to the Merivale and Elmwood companies. She is in the fifth form at Christchurch Girls’ High School.

Jill worked at the Institute for the Blind for htree months as her service to the community and for her day’s service took a visiting Canadian guide trainer on a tour of Christchurch and Akaroa. She holds the first-class badge, all-round cord, little house and woodcraft emblems and other badges including first-aid and lifesaving and the duty to God. The occasion was a special one as Jill was the sixth girl in the Merivale company to gain the award within a year. The other Queen’s guides, Lynne Mulholland, Helen Tait, Susan Hill, Dianne Bettie, and Jill Smith, were all present to congratulate her. After the ceremony a senior guide investiture was

held when four girls from Merivale and one from Elmwood were invested as senior guides by their captain, Mrs R. I. Weld. Two other senior guides were presented with their first-class badges and Vicky Louisson, who represented the north division at the recent Dominion patrol leaders’ conference, run in connexion with the pan-Paci-tic trainers’ conference, gave a talk on her experiences at the conference.