GIRL GUIDES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 December 1927, Page 18

GIRL GUIDES

NOTES BY “GUIDER.”

The following South Taranaki Guiders have passed the necessary examinations for their warrants: Miss RHawken. Captain Mokoia.Girl Guides; Miss R. Mills, Brown Owl, 2nd Hawera pack; Miss E. Hnwken, Lieutenant- 2nd Hawera Company; Miss E. Free, Tawny Owl, Ist Hawera Pack; Miss ‘S. Lysaght, Tawny Owl, 3rd Hawera Pack. To-morrow, being the third Sunday in tlie month, the usual church parade will be held. Hawera Rangers, Guides and Brownies will attend Divine service in the morning at their own churches. MCJNTEVIDEO RANGERS. One company ot’ Guides was started in Montevideo- in 1924, and after running successfully for three years the need for Rangers was felt this year. Two patrols were started, the "Oak” and the “'Chestnut.” The work done is mostly first-class Guide work, as the girls are neatly all first-class Guides. Mootings are held once a week at 5.30 p.m., as most of the girls work in offices, and cannot meet any earlier. The first venture on -the Rangers’ part was a camp hold during the Easter holidavs. As very few of the- -girls -had ever camped before, it was decided not to have tents, but to try and got a building. Swift’s Meat Company kindly lent one of their houses over on the Cerro, on the opposite side of the -bay to the city, and also provided hay for bedding, and milk, butter, bread, eggs, vegetables and meat- at a. very cheap rate, and a block of ice every day as a present. Each day in camp started at 7 a.m. with drill in bathing suits on the -beach, followed by a short swim, and then <‘ocoa at 10 a.m. round the fire. All the usual campy things were done during the day, and free use was made of a tennis court and two ponies lent to the

campers. The Saturday was made a general visiting day, and the Guides were invited over to lunch and -tea. The money for the camping expenses was advanced by the local association, and to repay this loan the Rangers got up a children’s play, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” which was dramatised and .produced by one -of the Ranger leaders, who also took the leading part. The whole play went excellently; not a cue was massed, not a slip was made, and “Open Sesame!” never failed to open the cave door. WA DDOW—AN APPRECIATION. (Concluded.) For the next two hours a succession of Commissioners and Guiders were shown over the house. Alas, only a moment’s peep into each room, for so long was the queue waiting its turn -that each party had to be whisked round and out again, and many things were of necesi-st-y .passed by without a word. But enough was seen to realise the vast number of gifts that had been sent, and t-o admire the charming rooms. Among the- most delightful things on this never-to-be-forgotten day were the telegrams which poured in from mill parts of the country—from the Chief Scout, from Headquarters, from Foxlease, from the Camp Advisers’ Conference, from counties, divisions, .companies and 'individuals, all bearing messages of greeting and encouragement and inspiration for the future.

Waddow has had a wonderful “sendoff.” There seems to be every prospect of good swimming and bathing in tire river next summer. During my visit we left our share of tho river to the salmon.--From the Girl Guide Gazette. OBSERVATION. “Observation is not always a gift; in most cases it is the result of hard work and careful thinking for at least the first year or two. You must learn (<>' keep wide awake. Some Guides go about in a sort of dream where nothing ever happens. They are not really thinking of anything. If they were, it might be an excuse for their blindness; they wire just ‘moony.’ Well, don 'it be like that-, P.L.’-s, and don’t let your patrols be either. Tost yourselves and them continually, and what you observer REMEMBER. You never know when some apparently useless bit of in formation may come in handy. But it is sometimes advisable to remind your recruit, when it comes to prac-tic.-isi.ng her observation on other people, that a Guide is polite and kind. I know some people who are a positive torror-to those around them; they always notice and remark on anything wrong!— but that is not the Guide spirit, and it is no part of second class to be like them.”—Tho Guide.