GIRL GUIDE NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21581, 29 November 1933, Page 3

GIRL GUIDE NOTES

[By Guiukb.]

CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE. Dorothy Dodds, who was drowned at St. Kilda Beach last Saturday, was a Brownie in Anderson's Bay Pack. Just about a month ago she won her magic hand. Our sincere sympathy is extended to her parents. FURTHER POINTS FROM CONFERENCE. Advice has been received from Melbourne that during the centenary celebrations of the State of Victoria, it is proposed to hold a jamboree, at which the Chief Scout and Chief Guide hope to be present. In connection with this there will be held, from December 28, 1934, to January 5, 1935, a camp for Guides and Guiders, partly indoor, partly outdoor, the cost to be £2. If any members of the movement find it possible to be present, further particulars may be obtained on inquiry. LEVIES. It was decided to leave these as at present. They are due to reach headquarters next year by August 31 instead of September 30, and are duo on all members in companies enrolled on July 31. Guiders would do well to think of this matter of levies early in the year. It is to bo hoped that next year, when report forms go out they will be returned without delay, and much worry consequently saved for commissioners. PROVINCIAL CAMPS. Captains are asked to bring the matter of camps strongly before their companies. Training in living the simple life out-of-doors is an essential part of Guide activities. Guiders themselves would be well advised to make a big effort to be present. Not only is there the healthy life and happy companionship of camp, with the chance of getting thoroughly to know their Guides, but there is also the opportunity of getting the practical experience necessary before they can run company camps of their own. We need more Guiders with campers’ licenses, to bring nearer the day when the company camp, for one or perhaps two companies together, will be the natural and accepted thing. We need assistant camp advisers, too. one in each division, if possible, and this cannot be achieved until more Guiders have had much further experience. POINTS TO NOTICE. 1. No Guide officer has her title placed in front of her name—i.e., one never refers to “ Captain Smith ” or “ Lieutenant Jones,” but to ‘‘ Miss Smith ” and “ Miss Jones,” adding, if necessary for clearness, captain or lieutenant of such-and-such a company. This is a point that for some reason or other needs to be referred to again and again. 2. Saluting should not be overdone, but it has its time and place. A Guider meeting a commissioner must salute her, if in uniform, and if at a public function she has to refer to the commissioner from time to time, a salute should be her manner of opening the conversation. Guides salute both Guiders and commissioners when they arrive at company meetings or at a parade, find also when they say goodbye. It is courteous if Guides, after being dismissed, come personally to say good-bye with a salute to their captain and to a commissioner, if there happens to be one present. Remember that it is the junior who salutes first. Do not wait for your commissioner, captain, or lieutenant to salute you. In a guard of honour only the Guider in charge salutes. Except in personal greeting, attention is the mark of respect from Guides. 3. It is not advisable for a Brownie to go for her first-class before she is ten years old. She cannot bo properly ready for it in so short a time, and it leaves her too long with nothing very definite to work for. FIRST-CLASS HIKES. What should one look for in a firstclass hike? First as to equipment. The hiker should travel light, not loaded up with cooking utensils, which are quite unnecessary for one meal. One can manage a good dinner with a strong knife, one’s sole outfit, the rest of the pots and pans being furnished by Mother Nature. A ground-sheet, preferably a small individual one, is a necessity whatever the season of the year. Second: Food. This should be chosen with a due regard for food values. Tinned foods or sandwiches are, of course, entirely ruled out of a Guide hike. Ingenuity in cooking, with a little experimenting in new dishes, is to be recommended. For a first-class hike sausages arc much too ordinary. Even eggs cooked in the ashes as the sole attempt at hot food are a little weak as an effort. At some other time we shall deal further with the kind of food one may have at a really good hike. Third: Fire. No matter what place one chooses, one can always make a suitable fire. Whatever kind it is, there must not be the slightest trace of it when the meal is over. For this purnose probably the turfed grass is the best. Fourth: Tidiness and speed. This refers to preparing and clearing up the meal. It should be possible to find a spot for the fire, cook, eat, and clear up the meal in an hour. So many people spend most of their time fiddling over cooking, calling the meal itself the hike, as small children refer to a party tea as the party, forgetting that they are out-of-doors for other purposes than eating. A hike should have some definite purpose attached to it. differing according to the tastes of the Guides. Fiflb: Behaviour. Guides out hikin" have the good name of the movement to think of. While walking along the road they must he particular about the neatness of their appearance. Remember that a uniform is more conspicuous than any other kind of dress, and ours is very well-known. When away from where the public can see. one may he more free-and-easy about stockings, etc. To all people whom one meets one must bo scrupulously courteous. If one wishes to light a fire on private property, such as an onen field, permission should he asked if the owner is at all accessible. The visiting examiner should be received with due formalitv, and attention paid to her reonirements. The salute at meeting and parting is certainly in order here. BADGE RESULTS. Needlewoman.—M. Scott (3rd Dunedin), N, Lord, .1. Caddie (sth Dunedin'). E. MaeMnrrav (7th Dunedin’). A. Elliott. D. Reck (9th Dunedin). The needlework will be left at the Guide rooms to-morrow, and should be removed by Friday afternoon. JUMBLE SALE. Articles suitable for a jumble sale, especially kitchen utensils, will be welcomed at the Guide rooms on Friday morning next.