GIRL GUIDES

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 28 May 1932, Page 13

GIRL GUIDES

NOTES BY “GUIDER” TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS. HAWERA EVENTS. We have mapped out a busy week, and expect to thoroughly enjoy our twenty-first birthday. Our activities include a concert at tbe Old Men’s Home, a book and toy drive, treeplanting at Naumai Park, campfire entertainment, and a commemoration service at St. Mary’s Hawera, on Sunday 2S, at 2.30 p.m.

Concert at Old Men’s Home. A happy evening was spent by everybody when the Hawera Company gave their birthday concert at the Old Men’s Home. We were very kindly received by Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell who are in charge of the home. The items included stave drill, campfire songs, country dancing, recitations, canoe poi song and folk songs in character. Our acoompaniste, Miss Free, acquitted herself nobly at the -piano. M iss Lennon (captain) and Misses Free and MacDonald, (lientenarrts) were in charge of the concert.

Book and Toy Drive. Hawera had a great inspiration and decided they would like to follow' Auckland’s example and have a book drive for volumes to present to libraries run by two of our town’s organisations. The Scouts have kindly lent their trek cart and we expect to be about with all kinds of queer contrivances for the carriage of the thousands of volumes we are hopeful of collecting. As we have only odd times to do our collecting, we hope that all the people who are dying to give us their accumula r tion of nooks, periodicals and toys, will forgive us if w r e turn up at odd times during the coming week. The company has been making and repairing toys for some time and with those we collect, it is hoped to have a worthwhile assortment to send down to Canon Feilden Taylor for his Children’s Mission work.

Commemoration Service. We hope to have a good parade for our special Guides 'Own Service which the Rev. \Whitby Janies is going to conduct for us at St. Mary’s Church, at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday. We are going to be joined by as many Guides as possible from Opunalie and Manaia, and as the Guides are, of course, dependent upon kind friends bringing them into Hawera by car, we are hopeful that car-drivers will be rushing from every quarter of Taranaki to our aid. We only need the weather to behave properly and we are sure of a very successful and uplifting service. The Hawera Scouts and Cubs have promised to join us, and we are all meeting at 2 p.m. oil Sunday at the Winter Show' Buildings, and will march in formation to the church. We are boiling that the general public will cheer us with their presence at the .church, as this is one way they can wish our work success and, incidentally, say “Many' Happy Returns” to us.

Commemoration Tree Planting. Probably never before in New Zealand has 'there been such an epidemic of tree-planting as threatens to break out in the Guide world during this week. When the edict came forth from our Chief Guide that we were to think out as many forms of service as we could during the birthday week, everybody at once yelled “Trees! Let’s plant trees.” And so in tbe big cities of the Empire, in the smaller cities of the Dominion, in little towns, in smaller towns, and, in fact, wherever j there are Guide companies, Kangei companies and Brownie Packs; trees) of commemoration will be planted. Taranaki has, of course, risen to the occasion. The New Plymouth Guides are going to plant a whole avenue of native trees in their lovely Pukukura Park. Kaponga, Stratford, Hawera, Opunake, Manaia, Alton and Pa tea are all tree-planting. Hawera has been given permission to plant in the pretty Native Reserve in which some of our public-minded citizens have been so active in beautifying with -so much personal hard work. Nauniai Park used to be an unsightly rubbish tip, and it is now a thing of beauty with its sheet of water, its pavillions of punga trunks, and a wide and varied collection of the beautiful trees and shrubs that are native to New Zealand, the Hawera Guides hope to plant a- pohutukawa, a rimu. a kowhai and a iotara. Idle trees will be marked with a commemoration plate. Shovels are being sharpened and polished, for, of com se, we are going to dig the holes ourselves. RULES FOR THE MAORI BADGE j Which is a Green Tiki. Rule No. 1. —Should know the Maori names for the following: Sky. earth, sun, moon, stars, day, month, year. nnd for the following birds and trees: Owl Kingfisher, pigeon, fantail, bawl-, black, white and red pines, cabbage tree, ’ New Zealand palm, christmas tree, native honey-suckle, native currant. flax. x Rule No. 2.—Should know: (a) Story of iHinemoa; (b) The story of the demi-god fishing up New Zealand from the sea.

R.ule No. 3. —Should be able to answer the following questions: (a) The name of the Polynesian voyager who tradition says was the dicoverer of New' Zealand; (b) From what part of the Pacific did the ancestors of the present Maori people come; (c) Give the names of four or more of the canoes in w'hich the maoris voyaged to New' Zealand from the central Pacific. Rule No. 4.—Either draw or describe ■a typical Maori village of 50 years ago, and in a brief account give the occupation of both male and female inhabitants, using Maori terms whenever possible.

Rule No. 5. —'What happened to the Maori spirit immediately after death, according to the Maori tradition. How did the Maoris show their grief at a death and what mourning did they wear.

Rule No. 6.—Must be able to pronounce Maori names of places correct-

Rule No. 7.—Be able to do two of the following: (a) Dance the Poi; (b) weave flax; (c) give Maori haka and welcome; (d) sing, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” in Maori. Books of references: Polynesion Mythology, by Sir George Gray; Maori Comparative Dictionary, by. Tregear; History and Traditions of the Taranaki Coast, by Percy Smith.

, THE GLEESQME GUIDERS. (To be sung to the tune of “The Policemen’s Chorus” in “The Pirates of Penzance.”)'. When. Brow Owl is engaged in her employment, her employment. Teaching Brow'nies to be quick and lend a hand, lend a hand, Her capacity for innocent enjoyment,

’cent enjoyment, Is transmitted to a happy little band, '

little band. All the Sixes find her quite a second mother, second mother, And her Tawny’s there to help with all the fun, all the fun. Oh, take one consideration with another, with another, And a Guider’s life is quite a happy one, happy one. Refrain: Though w'e all have got our duties to be done, to be done, Yet a Guider’s life is quite a happy one, happy one.

When an energetic captain’s not a-camping, not a’cainping. And lieutenants are not “knotting” all the time, all the time, They love to hear the ■ company' a-stamping, ves, a-stamping. As they march on with the Colours, keeping time, keeping* m time! When the Tenderfoots are ready for enrolling, for enrolling. And the rest have mastered Morse and badges won, badges won, It’s a brainwave that is really most consoling, most consoling. That a Guider’s life is quite a happy one, happy one. Refrain:

(When the secretary is sending off her orders, off her orders, And the Guiders have all sent her theirs in time', theirs in time, When the badge tests are all settled for the quarter, for the quarter. And accounts correct unto the nearest dime, nearest dime, When the minutes have been passed by the committee, the committee, As “O.K” and nothing further to be done, be done, Then it surely is the moral of my dittv, of my ditty, That a Guider’s life is quite a happy one, happy one. Refrain:

AA 7 lien Commissioner has ended her inspecting, her inspecting. Seeing companies, “Eyes right, quick march and ‘shun,’ march and ’shun When she’s finished training Guide and Ranger captains, yes, the captains, And has taught them all tlieir duties, one by one, one by one, When the packs and companies at last are fitted, last are fitted, Out with Guiders, who are eager for the fray, for the fray, It must strangly but yet truiy be admitted, be admitted, That this work for her is just a kind of play, kind of play. Refrain: ~ Though we all have got our duties to lie done, to be done, Yet a Gaider’s life is quite a happy one, happy one.

The above parody was written by a Guider and performed in character at a district concert at Dartmouth and Kingswear, organised in connection with the Building Fund. GUIDES! A NEW GAME. A new game for revising secondclass work. ■, Every girl has 10 beans and wiien the whistle goes everybody must ask each other questions on second-class as quiclky as posible. If a girl does not know an answer she must give up a bean to the questioner, but if the questioner is wrong then she has to give up two beans for not knowing what she is asking. At the end of a certain time the Guides go to their patrol corners and each patrol pools its number of beans, and averages them if patrols have uneven numbers.—Made up bv the Ist Levin Company. Also used lor ambulance or sick nurse revision.