GIRL GUIDE NOTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 November 1926, Page 18

GIRL GUIDE NOTES.

(By “Guider.”) Miss Laing, head of camping iu New Zealand, experts to visit New Plymouth this month. Miss Laing will be in charge of the training camp at Levin, which commences on the 26th inst. The Weraroa Development Farm is to lie the site of the Levin camp. Mrs F. S .Hodson, (Divisional Commissioner) has returned to New Ply’month from the south. Airs S- B. Williams (provincial secretary) i.s recovering from her illness. Our little Hawera Guide, Zara Alorris. left with tier mother for Rotorua last Friday. She is going into the King George -V. Hospital for special treatment. All loving thoughts are with her. and we wish her a speedy recovery to health. The Guide authorities in Rotorua have been communicated with, so that Zara will find plenty of friends in the Guide world there. The following little story is told InMiss Alice Behrens. The scene is a grev. dull, dreary building ill South Afii a. Tt had been a reformatory for women, hut had been converted into a home for girls, taken from undesirable homes.. Poor, dejected little girls clad in the ugly grev prison garments of the >•oformatorv. cot down to clothe them. A G'uider visiting it and seeing the grev. gloomilv-f'lail little figures in silence and dullness at their tasks, scrubbing, cleaning, kitchen work and laundry, felt a great ache of pitv and (■•bought. “If they could only be turned into Girl Guides, with colour and hope and cheer., what would it mean to them?” That thought of hers took form and came into being. She returned some months later, and found them Gad in the natty uniform, working in patrols, heartened by comradeship. alert through training, brightened bv the feeling of sisterhood with other "'"ls. She was absolutely astounded at the change. Tt seemed, she said, as though the sunlight had found entrance —the place seemed full of light and cheeriness. THREE GUIDE GRACES. Lord, bless not only meat and drink, But what we do and what we think. So that from all our work and play We shall he better for this dnv.

For health and strength and daily food We praise Tliv name. 0 Lord. Thank Von for the world so sweet, Thank Von for the food we eat. Thank A T ou for the birds that sing, Thank You, God, for everything.