GIRL GUIDES' DISPLAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20112, 24 November 1928, Page 16

GIRL GUIDES' DISPLAY.

RALLY AT DOMAIN! TO-DAY.

MARCHING AND PAGEANTRY.

TWO THOUSAND PARTICIPATING. The Auckland Girl Guide* will hold a rally on the Domain this afternoon, the demonstration being one of the largest of its kind arranged in this Dominion. Nearly every branch of guide work will be shown in tableau and pageant, while the attractive programme also includes marching and mass drill. The guides' demonstration nearly a year ago created great public interest, many thousands of people watching the display, but to-day's programme promises to provide an even more attractive spectacle.

In all 2000 Girl Guides and Brownies will participate, all the troops in the city and suburban area being represented, whilo many girls will come from the country districts as far afield as Waiuku. I'ukekohe and Waimauku. All the Guides will take part in the march past, which will be headed by the Brownies, who will move in troops past the saluting base. The salute will be taken by the chief commissioner for New Zealand, Mrs. W. R. Wilson, who will bo accompanied by Dr. Buckley Turkington, tho Auckland provincial commissioner.

The first display after tho hoisting and breaking out of tho colours will be the formation of a living map of tho world. At (he same time tableaux will be presented showing the planting of the British flag in the colonies and the spread of the guide movement throughout the world The march past will then be held, after which the Brownies will demonstrate one of their rules, the care of the teeth, in an elaborate pageant. The remaining features of the programme comprise a series of historical pageants depicting the lives and deaths of great figures of the past, whose examples illustrate the ten basic principles of the Guide law. In conjunction with the illustration of these examples the Guides will show how the principles are carried into effect in daily life. Among the figures to be presented are those of King Arthur, Sir Walter Raleigh, St. Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, and Captain Scott and his parly in the Antarctic.