PAPAKURA BROWNIES.

Franklin Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 140, 5 December 1934, Page 8 (Supplement)

PAPAKURA BROWNIES.

PACK ACTIVITIES. ; BIRTHDAY PARTY. The district commissioner, Mrs Teape, district secretary, Mrs McComb, the local Scouts and Cubs, and representatives from surrounding companies were present at the guides' eighth and .brownies’ fifth birthday party, which w r as held in the Baden i Powell hut last Saturday evening. 1 About 80 children and their guests | sat down to tea at 7 o’clock, the tables ; being tastefully decorated in the colours of the local company and pack. Two beautifully decorated birthday I cakes were again presented by Mrs | Ryan and Mrs Lanigan to the Guides ! and Brownies respectively. Referj ence was made to the action of the Scoutmaster, Mr H. Macfarlane and' his troop in tidying and decorating the hut

as a surprise for the guides, before the

i party, their work being very much ap- | preciated. The Guide Lieutenant ! (Miss A. Evans) read a telegram received from Miss Ethel Turner, forI merly captain of the Papakura com-

pany, in which she sent birthday greetings to the guides and brownies. | The jumbled “native birds and ; trees” competition for scouts and i guides was won by Grace Hill. June i Taylor’s doll. “Miss Early Victorian,” ! made from a peg and dennison. paper, ' won the brownie’s competition prize, I while Garnet Burges gained the cubs’ I prize for modelling in plasticine, “A i cub and his dog.” A pretty little J brooch at the end of the “surprise j parcel” was presented to Noelene j Lanigan, the bag bursting competition j for guides and scouts being won by . the Papatoetoe team. Guide cere- | monial was held, when Dorothy Bag- | nail and Shirley Tunnicliffe were enj rolled as members of the company by : Mrs Teape. I The following brownie badges were presented by the Brown Owl (Miss I. , Turner) : Golden Hand, Betty Haines and Joceljm Taylor: Toymaker, Mar- , jorie Turner and June Taylor. ! Prizes of books were gained by Sheila Miller and Doris Grey (attendance), Betty Haines (weekly inspection of uniform), Prudence Beechey ; (singing competition), June Taylor : (Brownie poem), Nola Williags (log book writer). The guide company presented the pack with a book for competition in 1935, a birthday present of a book also being made to the guides by the brownies. Items were given by the following brownies: Songs, Prudence Beechey and Barbara Burrell, “I don’t want to play in your yard” and “While shepherds watched.” Prudence Beechey: recitation, “The dead kitten” by Sharon Bultltude, “Gingerbread” by Sheila Miller, “My Poem” by June Taylor. “Gillies Cup” Competition. : The Work of the six brownies, which j.i gained for the Papakura pack the distinction of winning the Gillies cup for the third year in succession, is now on show at the guide headquarters ] shop in Quepn street, Auckland, and is 1 well worth inspecting. i

Appreciation of the kind interest of Mr J. F. Johnstone, chemist at Papakura, was expressed at the anniversary party last Saturday evening, Mr Johnstone having taken the photo of the winning team and presented each of.the children with a nicely mounted copy for themselves. Trip to Zoological Park. A very happy afternoon was spent by the brownies at the zoological park recently when the little people in the charge of their Brown Owl (Miss I. Turner) and Tawny Owl (Miss R. Searle), journeyed to Auckland for their end-of-the-year treat. They were accompanied by some brownie friends of the Papatoetoe pack, their number totalling 36 in all. Countless numbers of interesting things are to be found at the zoo and all through the hot afternoon little brown figures could be seen darting tirelessly from cage to pit, and then up steep paths and steps to discover j something new in the large aviaries of beautifully coloured birds of every description. Jamuna, the elephant, was once again a centre of interest and as most of the brownies decided they would take a ride she spent a busy afternoon walking round the pool near the elephant house. At 3 p.m. the pack, with great interest watched the bears and lions being fed, and were delighted when the keeper gave some of their number the great privilege of dropping food into the wide open jaws of Mr and Mrs Hippo. Before leaving for home a picnic was held under some shady trees in the park. It being Pixie Vivian ! Johns’ birthday a big cake, iced and decorated by her mother, was cut while the brownies “clapped out” the number of her years. The pack returned to Papakura shortly before 7 p.m. *