GIRL GUIDES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 June 1928, Page 18

GIRL GUIDES

NOTES BY_%UIDER.” To-morrow being the third Sunday in the month, the usual Church parade will (be held. Hawera Rangers, Guides and Brownies will attend Divine Service in the morning at their own Churches. The Hawera Brownies are celebrating their second birthday to-day. The Taranaki Provincial Training Week for Guiders opens at Now Plymouth on Thursday next., June 21. Guiders from all over Taranaki are attending. The training will be available to intending Guiders) as well as those who are already in the movement. The Manaia Guide company eele-. brates its second birthday on Saturday, .Tune 30.

PRO YINDIAL SWIMMING SHIELD,

While «(Mrs. R. Brewster was in England, she visited Imperial Headquarters in Buckingham Palace Road, London, and procured a tine shield which she is kindly giving to the Guides of the Taranaki province as a swimming trophy. Conditions 'of entry aud regulations for the annual contests will be considered and drawn up when Mrs. Brewster’s wishes have been ascertained. As there are some fine swimmers among the Guides of this province, a good standard of swim, ming is to be expected.

STRATFORD BIRTHDAY. On Friday week, the Stratford Guido Company celebrated their fourth birthday, the hall 'being well filled with parents, friends and members of the local association. Mrs. F. iS. Hudson, Divisional Commissioner for North Taranaki, Mrs. D. Steven, District Commissioner for Stratford and El* tham, the Mayor and Mayoress were present. During the evening a number of new Guides were enrolled, and service stars and badges were presented. The Guides presented an enjoyable programme of musical and elocutionary items, followed by a well presented one act sketch. An adult trio, Miss A. Unlade (daughter of the captain of the company), Miss Goodson and Miss Moon contributed two much appreciated numbers. Two little Brownies, on behalf of their Pack, made a presentation to Miss A. Dick, lieutenant, who has been granted leave of absence.

THE EIGHTH LAW. There are three different aspects of the B tti Law—“A Guide smiles and sings under all difficulties. First, there is the happiness we bring into our lives by this game. Second, there is -the cheerfulness that, is bound to come as a result of our having had the training and having learned so much that is useful and helpful. Third, there is the pluck that comes from the habit of smiling under difficulties, and in times of sadness and danger. And we should n'ot, forget that when the chief made this law for us, he did not sav that a Guide should smile and sing under all difficulties —he simply said a Guide does it, and that is the end of it, for wo promised to obey the la ws.

FIRST CLASS TEST. . “If yon look in the book of rules, you will find in the very first paragraph about the first class test, that it says that a first class Guide must have a good influence in the company. Now, that does not mean .being a .prig, but it does mean something very real and definite. It means keenness, 'fair-play, unselfishness, and above all, cheerfulness —not grumbling albout little things behind your leader’s or iGuider’s backs, and saying, c lt isn’t fair!’ “If you examine the first class test, you will discover it is divided up into four distinct- sections. A first class Guide is expected to be intelligent; to be handy; to be healthy, and know "now to take care of herself; and to be willing and able to render service to others.’’ Mrs. 11. 13. Davidson, in the “Guide.’’ LOYALTY. “There is no greater or more lovely quality than loyalty, and we may show it supremely to some one or to many for whom we care, but usually that is not difficult. If our loyalty extends only to the range of our personal affection, and cannot be counted o“n in the ‘wider world’ of social, professional and business relationships, beautiful though it may be within that range, it is onesided and incomplete in its beauty. The only way by which any one of ;us can become loyalty personified is bv being loyal in our ‘silent halls of thought. ’ ’ ’. —Miss 'Constance Hill.

FOREIGN 'CAMPS. One of the results of Guide camping is the creation of life-long friendships. International camps make, of course, for international friendships between individuals who meet in these camps. So far as the old world is concerned, there are now many more opportunities for the formation of these friendships as the custom of inviting foreign Guides to camps is becoming quite a settled .practice.' At the invitation of the Polish Guides, a large party of .British Rangers attended a camp in Poland. Two English Guiders and four Guides have been invited to attend a camp to be hold at Haringe, near Stockholm, by two Swedish Guide organisations who are joining forces for the purpose of holding this camp. The Swedes have invited the visitors to stay on for a Guiders’ training week, to be held after the camp, in which case they are to be the guests of Swedish families. The Scottish headquarters invited some Swiss Guiders to a training camp at Dundas ’Castle, in Scotland, and other invitations have been issued to various foreign Guiders to come to camps in England.

SERVICE. How many of us remember those good turns in the hurry and bustle of the day? As Guidon we should go out of our way to do some extra bit of service for other people every day; it needn’t be anything very great, we shouldn’t make,a fuss about, it; people needn’t necessarily know that we have done it, but we should never let a day pass without it. Tt isn’t at all a bad plan until you get into the habit of it) to tie a knot in the corner of your -clean pocket handkerchief each morning—as the Scouts do in their ties —and only untie this when .the good turn is d'one. How many of you will undo your knot by midday to-morrow*