GIRL GUIDES

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 15

GIRL GUIDES

Notes by “Guider.” MANAIA BIRTHDAY'. Still another birthday festivity. This time it was Manaia Guides and Brownies who celebrated with a birthday tea given them by the ladies of the local association. The Brownie table was bright with yellow Iceland poppies, wattle and jonquils, and their wonderful cake was decorated with twenty-four marzipan mushrooms, tlie cake being the gift of Tawny Owl’s mother, Mrs V. H. Hobday. The Guides’ table was in shades of .pink with maidenhair fern among the lovely camellas which predominated. Their cake was the gift of Mrs P. Instone, president of the local association. There were numbers of guests from other Guide companies in the division, and special guests were Canon and Mrs Sykes, the Canon giving the Guides and Brownies a message to live able lives, to be loyal to God, the ICing, and their officers,, and to always remember how* much they all owed to their mothers.

Presentations of badges and a concert programme finished up a very happy occasion. The ladies of the committee responsiLie for the birthday tea were Mrs Instone (president) and Mesdames A. J. Christie, L. Sinvonins, V. Hobday, L. A. Walters, N. C. Innes, H. Cottom, F. Garner, J. l'oung, J. Rodie, V. F. Winter and Miss J. Hansen (secretary). NATIONAL GUIDE SERVICE. ST. GEORGE’S CHAPEL, WINDSOR. A thousand Guides and Guiders from all over the country made a joyous pilgrimage to St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on Sunday, June 23rd. Unfortunately, it is not possible to give a full account of the proceedings in the July Guider, because the paper is wmiting to go to press, and there is oqly room for a .short description, but those of you who were not fortunate enough to be there w T ill be impatient for news—so w 7 e will not disappoint yo,u. Next month w-e are printing a fuller account, giving Canon Deane’s address in full.

It was very isad that our own Princess u r as unable to be with us, but our thoughts and love were w 7 ith her, and went out to her in the telegram we sent her: “Guides assembled at Windsor send duty and affection, and heartfelt wishes for recovery.” In the absence of the Princess Royal, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, a very gracious lady, as Canon Deane said, gave of her precious time to come among us. We saw her arrive, a delightfully cool and beautiful figure, crossing the sunlit law 7 n of the quadrangle with. the Chief Commis'sioner. We w r ere proud to think that, as Dame Helen Gywnne-Vaughan said, she was one of us —a former Captain and now a- District Commissioner, as well as being our vice-president —and we "were so grateful to her for sparing us that afternoon out of her busy life. A moment after the Duchess reached the Saluting Base the March past began. Some of us have been concerned lately about drill. If we could all learn to march as those Guides marched at Windsor, we should have no need for concern. Led by the Union Jack and the World Elag, they came, a long stream of straight blue figures, marching in .perfect time. How we wished the Chiefs could have seen them!

On the . steps of the Chapel the County Standards, with their Bearers, were formed up on either side, [making a beautiful picture. For the description of the service you must wait until the August number.

Afterwards we assembled in the Horseshoe Cloisters, and the Duchess, with the Chief Commissioner, the Chairman of the Executive Committee, rthe,, Scottish Chief Commissioner, the Ulster’ Chief Commissioner, the Irish Free State Chief Commissioner, the Welsh Deputy Chief Commissioner, the Deputy Chief Commissioner for London and the Home Counties, and the Dean and Chapter, came out on to the* steps of the Chapel. There the Chairman of the Committee thanked the Duchess for her presence, and the Chief Contmissioner gave us a message from the* Princess Royal:

“I have a message from the; Princess Royal, to say .how sorry she ds to disappoint her Guides to-day, and how much she wishes she had be'2n able to be with us all. We are rojoiced to hear that Her Royal Highness is making good progress and I am sure it will be the wish of all here that a message of loyalty and affection’be seirt to Her Royal Highness.” Then the Chief Commissioner read us a message from the Chief Guide.: — “This is a very great occasion, indeed, and none of you will forged having been privileged to take part rin this celebration of the Jubilee of our beloved King. I hope you will take away with you a mind full of inspiring pictures of Guides from all parts of .our land gathered together in the House of Gcd, rededicating yourselves to serve your God and your King in your own Guide’s way.

“I trust that you will all go forward from to-day with renewed zest in your Guide activities, more than ever determined to spread the ideals for which wo stand.

“Time is flying past. You are becoming leaders in thought: and action in more ways than perhaps you realise -—not only in your own patrbls atvd 1 companies, but in your school, at work, in games, and in the social life of your community. And, by being a fine Guido in every sense of the term, you are not only proving yourselves to the best exponents of the great game

we are playing together, but you are developing into the good citizens which our King and country expect and want you to be. “So go ahead, all of you, I send you my love from across the sea, and my best wishes in all your activities.”