GIRL GUIDES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1928, Page 18

GIRL GUIDES

NOTES BY "GUIDER.” *■ In u letter just received from Sirs. Corkill who is now residing in Invercargill, she speaks of tlie Invercargill visit of the Chief Commissioner, and of having met many Guide people. She attended a, birthday party with the Provincial Commissioner, Mrs. J. G. Macdonald, the distance travelled being sixty miles to reach their destination. Mrs. Corkill is interesting herself in the Ranger movement in Invercargill and is to organise the Rangers in Southland. Miss S. Lysaght, Acting Brown Owl, 4th H'awera pack, is spending a holiday in Christchurch. M is® Jean Easton is Acting Tawny Owl of the 4th Hawera pack. Miss D. Corrigan is at present in Geneva.

RANGER HOLIDAY IN SAAHTZEEL AND.

In June last a party of thirty-one *iUiigers from London and Sussex companies spent a twelve days' holiday in Switzerland. The cost per head was £lO, which included full board and accommodation, all meals en route and third mass travel and conveyance across Paris. The party met at Newiiaven and did not take long to become acquainted. A smooth crossing took them to Diei>pe. From Dieppe they proceeded to Paris and were met there by Mr. and Mrs. Pearce, the NV.T.A. hosts, and taken by ear to breakfast. The jou.rney to Berne was long and exciting and the first glimpse of the Alps was something to remember all their lives. At Berne as Esperantist doctor with three Swiss Eclaireuses met them and escorted them to trie Volkhaus for supper. Next day they proceeded to Interlaken, which they made their headquarters for several days and made trips therefrom to the many interesting places in . the vicinity. At Murreii, the famous* Alpine sports centre a. wonderful day was •spent, and although heavy mists obscured the view of the Alps, it was a unique experience being enveloped in clouds. On this day the partly collected over a hundred varieties of wild flowers. On’another day they went to Meiringen. and here they walked through the immense Aareschlucht, a deep and narrow gorge through which the river hurtles itself a.t a terrific pace. They returned by boat to the Giesbach Falls to watch the water pour dawn in front of them. On the Saturday a Swiss Ranger 'who had camped with some of thej party in England, the previous year, joined them, and together they visited Grindehvald with its huge ice. cave. They mossed the glacier, roped together, led by a. Guide who hacked steps in the' ice. It was a great moment when the whole party arrived breathless and excited, and from the eminence saw the Wetterhorn rising straight up before them to a. height of 12,000 feet. A day was spent in Thun, where they shopped to- their hearts content in the quaint shops, on Tuesday they proceeded to Beautushohlen, where the caves extend for three quarters of a mile into the mountains, and which were peopled m the Stone' Age, and had also served as a. refuge for the English Christian missionary, St. Bantus, in 900 A.D. The next day was spent at Schvnigge Platte, and here, standing 6,000 feet up amidst a wilderness of flowers, they beheld the magnificent panorama- of the snow-cap-ped Alps, tinder a blazing sun they .snow-hailed each other and tried to realise that this wonderful vista of ■snow and mountain height and blue, sunny skies would soon be left- behind, for the next day they were, due to return to Paris. Many pages' could be written of that last hectic day in glorious Paris! All the sights that were crowded into the four-hours’ tour, "by charabanc.! They saw the chapel of St. Genevieve, Notre Dame, Sacre Cour and the artist quarter of Montmartre. Passed along the famous Boulevards and saw the Grand and Petit Pali as—crossed the Champs Elys cos to the Arc de Triomphe and the Unknown Warior’s grave—where a. flame is always burning. In the afternoon a. French Cub _ mistress visited them and they visited the scouts’ headquarters, Napoleon’s tomb ar-d the Galeries Lafayette. And then name 7.30 and a. start was made for Dieppe on the homeward trail. FLOWER SHOW. the second annual flower show or \ I'.ie ri.awe.ra companies and packs was Dias year a great success, and it a ou.:.u ce difficult to say who enjoyed .me show most —the many visitors or e girls themselves. Certainly, when me entered the large building and saw :.he" wonderful effect of tables and i lands with their gorgeous mass of c.our, and realised that here was the •cucerted effort .of arrangement of none than two hundred young people, me had no fear that the love of lowers and all they mean to t-e hunan race was in any danger of being ost in our town. And then as one vent the round of all the exhibits and inw the skill in cookery and needlevork, it was impossible not to feel a brill of pride. It was all so good. Sever did Brownie skill evolve such j leiightfui rice puddings and such eather-light cakes and scones and likelets. And so it was with the luid-e exhibits and those of the bangers. . Both cooking and needlecork were of the highest order.

As our vice-president, Mrs. J. R. Corigan, remarked when she opened tile- stow, she felt sure that the mothers could now “hang up their cookin g aprons and put away their st-oelc-ing bags” for such things could now be left in the capable hands of their daughters. Airs. Corigan paid a high tribute to another of our- viee-nresi-dents, Airs. 11. T. Lovell, to whose love for flowers and kindness in passing her knowledge to the children of the Guide world, is mainly due to the high, nei’fe lion they have now reached. To all the Captains, Lieutenants and ■Owls' we also owe a debt of thanks, for their encouragement and interest went a long way towards making the show the sue'ess it- ivas. AA’e also thank our committee, and particularly Mrs Adams and Airs Ashton- who made such delicious ice cream, anil all the members of the- association and friends of the movement- who sent gifts of cakes and .produce for the stalls, and afternoon - ten. And. of course, we thank -our kind friend, Mr. Hooker, who takes such an interest in us- all, and- the committee -of the AA’intor Stew wlv> lent us the hall. Last, hut not l°ns't. we thank the judges, Airs. IT, T. To-’-el). Airs. R. D. Welsh, Airs- Toden and Airs. H-o-ddte. Their work must ho V r, been ber'-ulean indeed, and their wisdom, such as even Solomon might have envied. fo>- their judgments were so fair and liberal that there was not one disgruntled exhibitor.'