Girl Guides To Go Overseas

Press, Issue 32345, 10 July 1970, Page 3

Girl Guides To Go Overseas

1970 is the diamond jubilee of the international girl guide movement. Two Christchurch young women will go to Canada and Japan to World Association girl guide and girl scout conferences. Miss Jane Nichols, a guider lieutenant from the 82nd Westholm Company, leaves for Canada on August 12 to attend a jubilee gathering at Vancouver, and later at Banff. Miss Pat McGarva, who is the captain of the 3rd North Canterbury Ranger Guide Service Unit will leave New Zealand on July 22 to attend a conference in Osaka, Japan. The photograph shows Miss McGarva (left) and Miss Nichols looking at Japan and Canada on the globe. The two guides, both prominent in Christchurch guiding circles, were chosen from a large selection of provincial and national applicants. Apart from a grant of 8200 each from the International

| Guiding Fund, and having uni-i . j forms provided, the two guides are paying for their ’jown trips. I Miss Nichols said in Christl church yesterday that health, , welfare, and minority groups I would be the main points of ■discussion at the Canadian " conference. i “A diamond shines—so can our lives” is the motto of the r conferences. Miss Nichols coninsiders this aim can be s achieved at the international 0 . gatherings. “We will come t back full of ideas, with more ' to contribute, and we will s have gained an extra breadth n of experience,” she said. e “We can gain realistic views v by meeting others and passd ing on the impressions of all i. the guides from many counS‘tries,” said Miss McGarva. s “We will be shown aspects d of Japanese culture such as a tea ceremony, flower arrangeing, painting and calligraphy,” I-she said. n| As part of the world guid-i-ling movement, Misses Nichols >. land McGarva will stay in CanOadian and Japanese homes I'after the conferences.