GIRL GUIDE NOTES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7299, 28 October 1933, Page 4

GIRL GUIDE NOTES

(By “Scribe.”)

Miss Duthio’s Visit.

Miss Joyco Duthio (Bluo Cord Diploma’d Guidcr) spent last week-end in Palmerston North ns the guest of Mrs 6\ Eliott (District Commissioner), and conducted training classes for Guiders. The programme was arranged in a scries of sessions, covering all phases of Guide work, from Tenderfoot to First Class; practical work was carried out, and useful theoretical knowledge veas also gained. Banger and Brownie work was included in the programme, which was a very full and comprehensive one. Guidors were present from Palmerston North, Feilding, Bongotea, Pahiatua, Woodvillo and Dannevirke, and all arc most grateful to Miss Duthio for all the help which she so gladly gave, and for her inspiration. Tho thanks of tho Guiders woro conveyed to Miss Duthie hy Miss K. Eliott, District Captain for Feilding, Camp Fire. A largo number of Guidos and Guiders gathered. round tho Cainp Firo on Saturday evening and joined happily in tho singing of old and new songs, rounds, etc. Unfortunately a heavy shower drove us all inside, but the singing continued undaunted. A happy evening concluded with a Vespor and ‘ ‘ Taps. ’ ’ Church Parade Tho Guides co-operated with the Scouts from the camp at the Showgrounds in a church parado at All Saints’ Church last Sunday. There was a splendid attendance of Bangers, Guides, Brownies, Bovers, Scouts and Cubs, and during the service the colours of the 6th (Takaro) Palmerston North Company wero dedicated. New Zealand Emblems,—(6) Manuka 'The English name of this shrub is tea-tree, aud tho botanical name Lepto-I apermum scoparium. It is the most abundant of New Zealand sbrubs and is fund in all parts of both Islands. It acquired the name of tea-tree because early voyagers and colonists sometimes used its pungent leaves in place of tea. Ono of the loveliest sight of this country is a great volley at Christmastide.clad with manuka in full ilower. The wood of tho tree manuka is much used and valued as firewood. Some wonderfully tine specimens of these trees aro growing at "Otimai." Camp Gadgets Hsre ar6 two'useful camp gadgets:— Wash-basin stand: Take three long pieces of wood and three shorter ones, ; and plenty of stout string. First lash the three long pieces together in the middle. Place the bottoms of each in the ground and then lash each of the ' smaller sticks to the top of a longer : one and also to each other. Then you,:

have a triangle on three firm legs into which to placo your basin. A broom: Have you ever tried a broom mado from a long piece of manuka as a handle and a largo bunch of manuka foliage lashed on to ono end as tho broom part? ’ This helps to keep the grass in and around your tent looking nice. Do You Wear Your Badgo? A Banger was once spending a holiday at tho scasido by herself, and felt so lonely that at the end of the first week sho began to wish she had not come. Sho resolved that if she met anyone wearing a Guide or a Bangor badge she would speak to them and perhaps they would ask her to visit their company. On Sunday, just as sho was going into • church, she saw a girl wearing a very bright red trefoil, but had not quite the courage to talk to her. Although sho did not manage to come across her again, she folt much happier even to think there was a sister Banger in tho samo neighbourhood. And sinco that day she herself has always worn her Tenderfoot brooch in tho hope that seeing it might make some other Guide feel happier, even if she was too shy to speak. wc’vc all been cheered beforo now by tho. sight of a woll-polished G.G. badge in a strango land, but why does it take so much courage to start a conversation? Surely if our sisterhood is more than an idle name, Ave have nothing to fear, and may miss a chance of getting to know a fellow Ranger. Tho Success Family The Father of Success is Work, t’nc Mother of Success is Ambition, the Oldest Son is Common Sense. Some of the other boys are Perseverance, Co-operation and Enthusiasm. The Oldest Daughter is Character, some of her sisters are Cheerfulness, Loyalty, , Courtesy and Harmony. The Baby is j Opportunity. Get acquainted with , Father, and you will get along pretty i well with the rest of the family. ] Guiding in Nyasaland J Nyasaland is one of the latest re- ] emits to Guiding, and started here in ? tho form of a Brownie Pack. Nows * has just been received that the Brown- J ies combined with tho Wolf Cubs, and 3 made their first public appearance by J entertaining his Excellency the Gov- t ernor and Lady Young, and the town * of Blantyrel It seems to have been a tremendous success. —"The Guider.’’ t A Game for Brownies. d . e Six-legged Bace.—Brownies .stand m <3 their sixes in a long lino across the | room, Each. Brownie has a bandage or j piece of rope, and stands fa,r apart o from the other, The first Brownie in £ each six runs up to No. 2, and they tie _ their left legs together, and run on to No. 3, who ties her Tight leg to No. li 2’s left. The Brownies run till they t reach the end of the line, and all the t

legs are tied together. The six then turn and run a six-legged race back to the start.