Trail Planned For 500 Girl Guides

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 2

Trail Planned For 500 Girl Guides

“Travelling, trekking and trailing” are the opening words of a song written especially for 500 girl guides who will be coming from all parts of New Zealand on a national heritage trail which will begin on December 3, last five days, and will end in a gathering for another five days at Lincoln College.

To qualify for this the girls have had to complete a challenge which included in its requirements, knowlege of the country from which one’s forefathers came, of how they travelled to New Zealand and some of the traditions, customs and cultures which they brought with them. The guides, all aged between 12 and 16 years, will travel in parties of 18 with one adult to each party. The various North Island trails will visit such places as Mount Egmont, Wanganui, Wellington, Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth, Franz Josef Glacier. The girls from South Island areas will visit Wellington, Nelson, Taupo, Rotorua and other towns so that each guide will see a good deal of her own country en route. The local residents, where the parties stop, have planned such activities as visiting museums, historical places, climbing mountains and glaciers and visiting farms. On the West Coast the girls will try their hands at panning for gold. At Lincoln College, descendants of the pioneers will tell the guides about the early days of Christchurch, the arrival of the first four ships and the walk from Lyttelton to Christchurch. One day will be spent out of doors, building bridges, and doing pioneer cooking without utensils and over open fires. The programme will be arranged by Mrs S. R. English, of Auckland, with a staff of

five leaders; the composer of the special song is Miss Joan Lees, Motueka. In addition to the New Zealanders taking part in the trails there will be more than 100 overseas guides and leaders—79 from Australia, two from the United States, one from Korea, 10 from Fiji, 10 from Tonga, and 10 from the Cook Islands.

Corbin Trophy. The Lorelie H. Corbin Trophy for the best all-round new entry into the Women’s Royal New Zealand Naval Service was presented at the Navy Office on Thursday by the woman whose name it bears. Miss Lorelle Henderson Corbin, now Mrs Lord, gave the trophy to the service on her retirement as director of W.R.N.Z.S. in 1963. The winner was Wren Margaret Jacqueline Godsmark, of Auckland.—(P. A.).