GIRL GUIDES

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 18

GIRL GUIDES

NOTES BY “GUIDER.”

'Congratulations to Mrs. F. C. King who has received word from the Dominion Head of Camping, Miss Kebhell of Levin, that she- has .passed the examinations for her Campers’ License and Quartermasters’ Test. This will enable her to take Guides to camp under canvas.

.Miss Hill, at one time captain of the Manaia Company, is training as a Missionary under the auspices of the Methodist Missionary Society. On Saturday afternoon a little ceremony took place in the company room of the 3rd 'Hawera .Company, when the Divisional 'Commission, Mrs. J. Houston, presented to Miss Mavis Maedonald, the mauve cords she had won as a Guide in the Ist Hawera company. Miss Macdonald is at present an acting lieutenant with the '3rd company. Members of the Ist Hawera company with their captain, .Mrs. King, and lieutenant, Miss Hooper, were present. The Commissioner congratulated the recipient of the cords and said it iwas an incentive to all Guides to endeavour to qualify for the mauve and all round cords, and she referred to the good service being rendered by Miss Mac. donald.

The 4th Hawera pack under Brown Owl, Miss Corrigan, met at the Presbyterian Hall. The Brownies, after saying farewell to Brown Owl, Miss Free, and members of their old pack, followed an exciting trail from the Winter Show Building, and all were much surprised when it came to an end at the Presbyterian Hall. It was most thrilling to find such a lovely home. “If iwe look forward we can realise that our two million scouts and Guides in existence to-day represent probably another million who have passed through the training, and they are the prospective fathers and mothers of the next? generation and will be bringing up some two or three million of boys and girls within the next few years on the same lines of thought and action as their own.

Thus we .have a wonderful opportunity and a great responsibility. Therefore we must so shape our training with the right vision that we shall not he content merely to have smart troops and companies and temporary success, but iwe must he sure that the highest ideals have been actually inculcated, and that the hoys and girls really bring a Christian spirit into their daily life and practices; that they overcome 'selfishness with service, and that they substitute goodwill and co-operation for the too prevalent state of narrow patriotism and jealousies.”—'Chief Scout.

THE TEN iCOMMANDMENTiS OF THE CAMPER.

1. Thou shalt not follow the high roads, but the footpaths. 2. Tholugh slialt not beg a lift of the first motorist tvho lulls by, for it is iinseently and perchance disloyal. 3. Since everything has an owner, thou shalt respect all property, of private or public ownership; thou shalt never cause its misplacement, its damage, or its vanishing. 4. Thou shalt never pass where passing is forbidden, neither fish nor hunt on preserved parts, :for every trespass leaveth behind it a grudge against they felloty-camper who followeth. 5. After as before thy passing, the gates and the stiles, the hedges and the sign-boards, the trees and the crops shall remain undisturbed. 6. Thou shalt not pluck the wild flowers of the field, for they belong to dll men; allow all men to delight in them. Thou shalt not gather the fruit from the trees nor be tempted by the golden cluster of the vine. 7. Thy- fire shall be lighted on the humid earth, never on the stubble -or the dried leaves; neither shall it be large, for a large fire is an enemy to both the tasty cooking and the splendid copse! Let thy fire be extinguished by a pail of water, not by a kick from the foot, since the flying spark may, thirty yai-ds thence, reduce to ashes a thousand trees. Truly a murderer is scarce more guilty than the stupid and careless icamper in the woods. i

8. The site thou lea vest shall be neat and clean. Thou shalt replenish the store of good wood thou hast found, for thou art not a tripper iff luck’s way, but the honoured guest of an absent host. Should thou make use of a hut or cabin, thou shalt leave behind the word of thanks.

.0. Silence or the whispered word betoken the craft of the camp and the trail; none but the ass and the idiot goeth forth into the forest to bray.

10. Wheresoever thou shalt camp, there shalt thou seize 'upon the mysterious beauty of nature; thy generous soul and-thy alert senses shalt love and respect the all-powerful force permeating all things. [Jamboree. IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS.

‘‘The sun is shining and the temperature ( of the building fund is rising. It now stands at £7,500. The trustees of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust have granted the sum of £2,150 to be devoted to building and equipping, a 'Guiders ’ library in the new building. In addition to this they have also granted £350 for the initial outlay of suitable (books to set the library going, and this generosity will toe greatly appreciated toy the Guiders who will visit the- library' later on. -Northwest Lancashire are building a room, and the Imperial Council are undertaking to provide the room which is to house the Overseas Department. Up to date fifteen hundred receipts have been issued from headquarters, apart from those sent bv the countries themselves and nearly one thousand of the Chief Scout’s ■certificates have been sent to companies and -pagks. The sum of. £74,500 is the sum that has to toe raised, and foundations, doors and windows, girders and earner stones will be gratefully received, as well as the over-acceptable brick.” —The Guider.

PROOFING FOR HOME MADE GROUND SHEETS.

You want 2yds 3in of medium-weight rot-proof tent fabric, sufficient unbleaced tape to go all round the edge, some .light-weight rot-proof frabric to make a three corner patch at each corner. Also linseed oil and iterebeno mixed in the proportion of half gallon linseed oil to a quarter pint tercibene. Machine on the patches, tape all round and eyelet if necessary; then proof in the following way: Put the groundsheet on a fiat wooden surface, take a scrubbing brush and apply a coating of the terebene and linseed, then hang the sheets up to dry, tout not in the full sun. A second coat is usually necessary. Sheets are quite waterproof if made throughout of the light-weight fabric, but do not stand such hard wear. Some French chalk dusted over the sheet before folding will prevent it sticking together.

—The Guider,