GIRL GUIDE NOTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 January 1927, Page 18

GIRL GUIDE NOTES.

(By Guider.)

i •j r .lfic first weekly parade or tne Ha- ■ wera Guides and Brownies for 1927, j wifi be neki next Saturday, January ■ 29. .New recruits will ne welcomed. ' Doiothy Hooper, has qualified tor •!the- Hoi.sewoman s Badge. The judge, i Mr. I<. Corrigan, remarked that Do.othy snowed exceptional knowledge ‘. oi horses. > j A number of Guides in charge of '! Captains Henderson and Ballantine, ■j visited the boy Scout Gamp at • Normanby during the vacation. They spent a delightful afternoon and ; tno-oaghly enjoyed themselves. 1 1 The Committee of Headquarters ’ Council in England at a meeting on November Hi last, concurred in the fol- ' i lowing resolution of the International 1 . Conference held in America in May “i last: “That ‘February• 22,’ the joint ■ 1 birthday of Sir llobert and Lady Baden-Powell, should be kept as a L ; day on which all Guides will think of ■ Guides in other lands.” J Miss Alice Behrens holds the coveted ! decoration of the Silver Fish. This is the highest possible award for good • I .serv ice for tne whole movement and ’ is only granted by Headquarters on 1 j very special occasions. The “Dominion Girl Guide” • maga--1 zinc contains- many items of interest ’.to Guiders and ail who are interested ■ 1 in the movement. To Guiders it is ■ indispensi’ole as through its columns [j are published headquarter’s’ rulings ‘ and announcements. It is hoped that' \ arions improvements will be made in ’I the magazine during the year and it j is just possible tha;t the magazine 5 1 will he published more frequently. An "; interesting feature is the notes of ’; doings of guide companies ail over New Zealand. The subscription for - ( on? year is 3s lid which should be for- ■| warded to the Dominion Secretary, i' Girl Guides’ Association, Sundayschool , Main Buildings, Queen Street, Auclcc land, or handed to the District Secret: t-arv. Hawera. 3 j CAMPING. 3 1 Over jane hundred camp advisers i '■ gathered recently at Eoxlease for ■ their annual conference. They came } j from Ititgland, Gotland, Ulster, "i Wales, Ireland, tlie Channel Islands, j I Australia and New Zealand. Three days were tilled with discussions, talk G and practical work, the latter very I* much to the point. Various larders were shown, incinera--1 tors built, screening erected and roof- ’ ed. groundsfieets mended, cooking pots cleaned, bell-tents pitched and • home-made tents minutely inspected. 1 . Tiie variety of topics under eonsidera- ’. tion included hygiene, dogs, railway ’, fares, camp uniform, swimming, etc. l | In New Zealand, progress has been j made during the past year and quite - 1 a number of Guiders have passed the 3 necessary test papers and become " qualified campers. Miss K. Stewart, ’ of New Plymouth, is the first Taranaki “ guider to receive a camper’s license. ’ During the holiday season she took 5 some twelve Guides into camp for a. ’ few days and they all had a thorough- . ly good time. D It i* hoped that camp advisers will 1 soon lie appointed in all the provinces. I This will make smaller local training 3 . camps possioie, entailing less expense in time and travel. As in other 1 • branches of Guide work, the policy 3 is to decentralise as much as possible. \ Hawera Guides look forward to the 1 time when they will be able to go into 3 camp together. Permission to hold C camps is. in the interests of parents • and girls, given only To warranted ■ Captains who bold a Camper's l.i:ense. ‘ I.OXK QUID MS. 1 Arc t..ere any gills who would like s io .he guides, and yet liv e too far aw ay 1 .rom jiawera to attend parades? They 1 can be to me part oi trie Guide mo.o- ---• meat by enrolling as I.oue Guides. i Tiie Lories do the sam” work a.< tne s Guides and take the same promise. - 'i hey are kept in tcuci. <iith guide ' matters and with each otu.'r ny a ? s. stem of letters. Help or insv-wtion is given by the i.oue Captain i» the " paiti:ular district. This is a most ‘ interesting branch of guiding and is 5 especially welcome to girls who x live m farms at a distance from Guide >' companies. Girls who would like to join the r Lone Guides are invited to write to " the ‘District Secretary, Box 95, Ha--1 wera. 1 ww*swMti;Wi»uinsiit imumHiiiUM