GIRL GUIDE NOTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 November 1926, Page 18

GIRL GUIDE NOTES.

(By “Guider.”)

Swimming days have come at last, and on Saturday afternoon the baths echoed with the happy laughter of the Brownies as they took the first plunge of the season. * Afterwards a quick walk round the block was taken, and all agreed that it hat] been a delightful afternoon. The Guides are now hurrying on with second-class work, and those who are through this test are concentrating on badge work. The monthly meeting of the executive of the Local Association was held on Monday, the president (Mrs Paeey) being in the chair. It was decided to ask Mrs R. R. Henderson and Miss Ballantine to continue the Ranger class with a view to training possible Guiders. Anyone who would like to join this class is requested to communicate with the district secretary (Mrs John Houston), Box 95. On the recent Blanket afternoon *or Plunket mothers and babies, six of our Guides assisted with the afternoon tea. An appreciative letter was received from the hon. secretary, who stated that the girls were an example of all round efficiency, and their help was much appreciated. The executive was pleased to see this evidence of the spirit of service in the girls. The formation of the second Hawcra company has now been authorised. As soon as a suitable home is obtained, the company will be taken over by Miss Ballantine. Miss Spragg has been appointed to act as Miss Ballantine's lieutenant. Miss Edna Free, who has been training for some time, in order to qualify herself for a Guider, has been appointed an assistant Tawny Owl. Both Miss Spragg and Miss Free have been trained by Mrs Henderson. THE HUMAN ELEMENT.

The Guide movement is not a machine, rigid, cold, correct and invariable, tiut it is a living organism of human

beings working together with a will for the good of the world. We all have our faults and our virtues, our own enthusiasm and discretion —or indiscretion! —and everyone is vouchsafed a personality of . her own with aims and ideals to be upheld. What, then, can secure the smooth working of this very living machine! The greatest and most necessary qualities which must animate all who share in i’t are loyalty and sympathy and self-control.

(.1) Loyalty to those above: the patrol leader to her captain, the captain to her commissioner, etc.

(2).Sympathy with all those in tho movement.

(.1) Self-control with all with whom one comes in contact in the work. A motto of all workers in the movement should be that of seeing things from the other fellow’s point of view. The spirit of loyalty, the possession of sympathy and the power of selfcontrol can carry all before them, and it is the personal, kindly human touch on which so much depends. It can smooth away difficulties, and wo will see .the organisation gathering strength until, before we realise it, the whole world will be transformed and a new era will have come into being.—Lady Baden-Powell.