Guide official has retired
Mrs Helen Shirlaw, who for 20 years has been camping adviser to the Canterbury Girl Guides Association, has retired from office to become a Ranger guider.
Her position will be taken by Mrs Pat Riley. Mrs Shirlaw has been a guider in the Canterbury association since 1940, taking up the position of camping adviser in 1952. In that time, she was national camping adviser for 10 years. A luncheon in her honour was held at the association’s Cracroft House, in Cashmere, yesterday. Mrs Shirlaw received a cane chair from the association in appreciation of her service to guiding. In a speech of thanks, she said that what the association needed was semi-per-manent camp sites within an
easy radius of Christchurch where guides could store equipment. “A paddock that a farmer doesn’t use in the summer would be perfect and so would Crown lands if we could get some,” she said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32959, 4 July 1972, Page 6
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