GUIDES' CELEBRATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 75, 26 September 1944, Page 8

GUIDES' CELEBRATION

TWENTY-FIRST YEAR IN N.Z.

The twenty-first anniversary of the forming of the Girl Guide movement in New Zealand will be celebrated by a Guide week held throughout the Dominion from next Saturday, September 30, until and including the following Saturday.

Next Saturday Guides will take part in many camp-fires, which, though in widely-scattered areas, will be lit a" 7 p.m. throughout the Do minion. On Sunday "Thanksgiving for Guiding" services will be held in churches of all denominations, and their Excellencies Sir Cyril and Lady Newall will be present at the church parade and service to be held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul at 11 a.m. All former members of the Girl Guides and friends are requested to attend this parade. On Monday at 7 p.m. his Excellency will speak over all national broadcasting stations on the Guide movement.

The next few days will be spent by the Guides in doing good turns to the community, in reunions of old Guides and in specimen company meetings to which parents and interested friends will be mvited. The week will close in the main cities and in many provincial districts by public rallies on the afternoon of Saturday, October 7 These rallies will give the public a chance to see for themselves that Guiding is a training in fitness for citizenship of the future young women of this country.