GIRL GUIDE NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21715, 9 May 1934, Page 6

GIRL GUIDE NOTES

[By Guideh.]

PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE. The monthly meeting of the Provincial Executive of tne Otago Girl Guides’ Association was held in the Guido rooms. The provincial commissioner, Miss V. M. Barron, occupied the chair. Present were: Mesdames R. H. Stevenson, E. I. Halsted, W. K. Cameron, G. Fitzgerald, G. W. Davies, H. K. Wilkinson, W. Borrie, Misses D. G. Blackmore, A. Stevenson, and M. Anderson. Miss Barron reported that a most successful Guiders’ training week-end had been spent under canvas at Easter when those Guiders who wished to sit for their campers’ license paper, and Rangers who wished to get their camp craft badges were instructed by the camp adviser at Waitati. The treasurer. Mrs K. Cameron, reported on the jumble sale, which was most successful. WINTER SHOW. Advice has just been received from the Otago A. and P. Society that it has included in its sections for the Winter Show a special one for Guides. The competition is for the most useful article made from either sugar bag or flour sack, and is open to girls under seventeen years of age (age to be certified to by commissioner or captain). Unless there are four or more exhibitors there will be only one prize, but, given sufficient numbers, there will be a first prize of 7s 6d. a second prize of ss, and a third prize of 2s 6d. The entry fee is Is. Captains may receive entry forms from the provincial secretary. All exhibits must be received by the secretary of the A. and P. Society not later than 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 31. Entry forms must reach him earlier, by May 15. This is short notice, but it is hoped that there will be a good number of entries. These could be used later for the Lady Alice Fergnsson Cup, if desired. The competition is open to the whole province. Where companies are not meeting during the school holidays, captains might bo able to get into touch with individual girls whom they thought suitable. If it is not possible to send the name of a girl by May 15, the name of the company could be forwarded.

DUNEDIN GUIDERS’ MEETING. The captains and Brown Owls met in the club rooms on Thursday evening last. Miss Wilson, divisional' captain, presided, and those also present were Misses Chrystall, Standage, Hayward, Woodfield, Ridley, Esplin, Sheppard, Comer, Curie, Burgess, Nelson, Stevens, Patrick, Rae, Elliot, and How representing the companies. Misses Dunlop, Warren, Campbell, Kennedy, Blair, Geddes, Black, and Mrs Bowie representing the Brownie packs. After the business meeting Dr Chapman kindly took country dancing, which the Guiders very much appreciated. At supper a tier of Mrs Caelberg’s wedding cake was cut, and a vote of thanks was passed for her kind thought. Miss A. E. Stevenson, badge secretary, was present, and the following is the amended badge list for the year:— April: Athlete, sportswoman, swimmer, life saver, hiker. May: Laundress, cook, • domestic service, home-maker. June: Toymaker, carpenter, handy woman, cyclist, cobbler, knitters, basket maker. July: Artist, clerk, scribe, signaller. August: International knowledge, book lover, writer, Maori, music lover, entertainer, hostess, dancer, folk dancer, gymnast. September: Needlewoman, embroideress, sick nurse, child nurse, ambulance, health, fire brigade, astronomer, thrift. October: _ Bird lover, naturalist, friend to animals, dairymaid, horsewoman, bee farmer, poultry farmer, gardener, domestic service. Any other proficiency badges will be .arranged for by special request only. Rangers may also enter for the above badges or the equivalent Ranger badges at the same time. All entries must be in on the first of each month, addressed to the badge secretary, Guide rooms. Immediately after the school holidays the June entries are to be sent in .together with those for April and May. AH handwork entries must be placed in special boxes made for each entry. Guides who do not hold a bronze medallion which qualifies for the swimmer’s and life saver’s badges may pass these badges at the Municipal Baths any evening except Friday and Saturday between 6 and 7, provided their entries have been sent in. Brown Owls may notify the badge secretary when any Brownies are ready for any badges, and the tests will be arranged to suit. Domestic service badge tests are to bo arranged by company committees. HONOUR FOE THE CHIEF GUIDE. The last number of the ‘ Council Fire ’ gives the following account of an honour conferred on the Chief Guide by the Boy Scout movement:—“ During the County Commissioners’ Conference held in London in March, just before lunch one day a door at the back of the room opened, and Boy Scout Headquarters Commissioners stole quietly into the room. They came to take part in a notable event. This was the presentation of the silver wolf to the Chief Guide, Lady Baden-Powell. The silver wolf is the highest decoration of the Boy Scouts, and is only awarded by the Chief Scout himself for very special work. As the chief was convalescing at Pax Hill, Lord Hampton, the Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts’ Association of Great Britain, actually made the presentation, and in a most delightful speech explained how it had come to be made. “ A committee of the Boy Scouts’ Council advises the Chief Scout on the recommendations for awards which come in to him from all over the world. As Lord put it: ‘ When the is away the mice do play.' On this occasion, the Chief Scout being away, the committee were the mice. It decided that the chief’s wife had rendered many invaluable services to the Scouts. She continually shared the Chief Scout’s much-loved but very heavy burdens, and by her untiring devotion kept him fit and well for the leadership of the movement. Her never-failing hospitality at Pax Hill, where she kept open house for Scout and Guide wanderers from far and near, had also been of incalculable value to the Boy Scouts, while her interest and encouragement to Scouters and Guiders alike whenever she came into contact with them was a deeply-appreciated inspiration. “ Amid clappiilg and almost cheering of those revered people, the British Girl Guide Commissioners, Lord Hampton then hung the sliver wolf round the Chief Guide’s neck, and the green and yellow of the Scout colours became entwined with the light and dark blue of the ribbon on which the Chief Guide’s decoration—the silver fish—was already hanging. This mingling of the Scout and Guide colours could well be taken as the outward symbol of the real friendship and sympathy which exist between the Boy Scout and the Girl Guide Associations in the chief’s own country.”