CAMP FIRES TO BE LIT

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 4, 29 September 1944, Page 3

CAMP FIRES TO BE LIT

Tomorrow’s Ceremony For Girl Guides In N.Z.

The twenty-first anniversary of the formation of the Girl Guide Movement in New Zealand is to be celebrated by a Guide Week held throughout the Dominion from tomorrow, till and including October 7. Tomorrow, Guides will take part in many camp fires, which, though in widely-scattered areas, will be lit at 7 p.m. all through the Dominion. On Sunday, “Thanksgiving for Guiding" services will be held in churches of all denominations. On Monday, the'ollicial anniversary of the formation of the movement, his Excellency Sir Cyril Newall will deliver a broadcast address on the movement.

The next few days will be spent in doing good turns for the community in reunions of old guides, in specimen company meetings to which parents and interested friends will be invited. The week will doso in the main cities and in many provincial districts by public rallies on the afternoon of October 7. These rallies will give the public a chance to see for themselves that guiding is a training in fitness for citizenship ofthe future young women of the country. In Wellington, immediate gatherings will be a campfire at the I’irie. Street reserve tomorrow from 4 p.m. till 8 and a parade and church service on Sunday morning at St. Paul’s, which will be attended by Sir Cyril and Lady Newall. The asoeiation has a proud record of war service. If has made approximately 3000 camouflage nets for the New Zealand Army, collected 55 tons of cleaning rags for the services, raised £lOOO toward the British Guides’ effort to buy the first two R.A.F. air ambulances, and earned £3500 which was given to the New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board to buy recreation huts for soldiers stationed in New Zealand. Thousands of garments, toys and gifts for fhp'children have been made and forwarded to Britain, large quantities of comforts have been knitted for the Merchant Navy nod 12 large packing cases of clothing have been sent: for the use of Polish children who are to arrive in the Dominion.