GIRL GUIDES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 March 1928, Page 18

GIRL GUIDES

NOTES. BV “GUIDER.” A farewell tea, was given Miss Betty Page, Tawny Owl of the 2nd Hawera Pack, by the Guiders. Miss Page has joined the staff of the New Plymouth Hospital and we all wish her great success -in her profession. A visit to the Opunake Rangers has been arranged by the Hawera Rangers. Private ears will leave the Ranger clubroom outside Mr. Kemp’s garage on Mon dav between five and 5.30 p.m. Will ail Hangers going be as punctual as possible as it is not advisable to delay much aftm- 5.-30 if a swim is to be got in at Opunake while it is still light. Members of the Lst and 4tli Hawera Guide Companies spent a pleasant time last Saturday at the home of Miss J.ysaght Mokoia * They were in charge of Captains. Mrs. King and Miss Young. ENROLMENT AT STRATFORD An enrolment of five Guides from Kioie took placei at Stratford last Saturday. These Guides will form a one Pat ret attached to the Stratford Company. The organising of the patrol was the work of an enthusiastic girl, Mary Stewart, and as the girls live on scattered farms many miles from each other, the young leader is to be congratulated on her success. The Acting Provincial Commissioner, Mrs. John Houston, welcomed the girls into Guiding, and gave them an address on the organisation and the lessons to he learned from the uniform. SWIMMING BADGES. The following Brownies gained tlieii proficiency badge for swimming at the examination conducted by Mrs P. O. Yeale last Monday:—Jessie Olliver, Doris Jones, Bessie Beamish, Betty Smith, Micky Hawken, Ann Bright and Doiis Gilmore. The conditions for this badge are as follows :

Must be able to swim 25 yards (any stroke). Be able to float on back for (>) seconds. Swim on back with arms bided on chest, for 15 yards. Be able to “cluck dive” (i.e. dive while standing in the water or swimming). Or (as alternative), perform a “honey-pot” (i.e. jump with arms clasped round knees from board, bank or boat). Mrs Yeale was very pleased with the Brownies proficiency in the water. RANGERS. The following letter from Miss Alice Behrens, who was in New Zealand last year, appears in “The Guide” : Dear Rangers, —Having just got hack from travelling right round the world, I do feel that I w’ould like to take you forth with me. It lias been so thrilling seeing Rangers everywhere. In many places we had Rangers Conferences, and though thousands of miles away lr.:m England, it felt exactly the same as at home, the questions raised and the discussions that followed being almost similar. So it just shows us that Ranger piob’.ems and joys are the same, no matter what corner of the world we are in; it seems to unite us and strengthen the family bond we know exists. In Sydney, in Auckland, and in Victoria, British Columbia we had special Ranger functions. In Sydney, we met. last April, and during discussion, covered the ground pretv thoroughly from length of skirts to world service! In New Zealand, we spent last Whitsuntide togetherforty Rangers —in a most beautiful spot 25 miles from Auckland, and thought specially of comradeship and service. I slialt never forget that time; we seemed to be in such close touch with one another and we really saw the wonderful opportunities for adventure and service that exist in our seeminglv humdrum every-dav life. The surroundings were so beautiful, iarreaching views and great tall trees, and a fairy stream at the. foot or the hid and birds with rich, flutlike voices.

So we will move on across the Pacific Ocean to Canada. It was at the wonderful Canadian Dominion Jubilee Camp in Victoria that I saw most Rangers, and as we divided into different sections each day for work and play, we had an opportunity of getting u> know one another. Some ot them had come right across Canada to be at that Camp, and they were full of ideas and plans for the future. In fact, oiie splendid company is serious'iv saving its money to visit .England in live \ears tiim.-

(); course, 1 saw Haugens in other places, too, but everywhere there was the same keenneess, and the same great longing to be real Hangers. As my mind flies round the world, and I see the Hangers in all the different parts, certainty comes, too, that what they are doing is very much worth while—they are shaping dreams into action. So g-o-ocl luck to you all. Alice M. Behrens.