GIRL GUIDE RALLY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 14

GIRL GUIDE RALLY.

DEMONSTRATION TO-MORROW SPECTACULAR lUCEANTS. All the Girl Guide troops in Auckland will take part in the rally to be held on tho Domain to-morrow afternoon, providing one of the largest demonstrations of its kind to be held in the Dominipn. An ambitious programme will be presented, combining marching, a display of handicrafts and pageants, and should prove an oven greater attraction than the demonstration held about a year ago, which aroused great public interest. In all 1500 Guides and 500 Brownies will parade, all the troops in the Auckland city and suburban district being represented. Nearly all the country dis" l tricts between Waiuku and Pukekohe in the south and Waimauku in tho north will send Guides, and the gathering will bo thovoughly representative. All the girls will parade in tho march past, led by tho Brownies, and the salute will_ bo taken by tho chief commissioner for New Zealaudj Mrs. W. R. Wilson, who will be accompanied by Dr. Buckley Turkington, tho Auckland provincial commissioner.

After the colours have been hoisted arid broken out, the guides will form a living map of the world, in which will bo combined a scries of pageants showing tho planting of the British (lag in U)e colonies and the spread of the guide movement throughout the world. The Brownies will then give a demonstration of one of their laws, the preservation of the teeth. Tho remainder of the programme comprises a series of historical pageants dopitting the lives of great figures of the past who exemplify the ten points of tho guide law. At the same time the guides will demonstrate how these principles are carried into effect. Among the historical figures to be presented are King Arthur, Sir Walter Raleigh, Joan of Arc, St. Francis of Assisi and Captain Scott.