GUIDES' MESSAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22673, 10 March 1937, Page 14

GUIDES' MESSAGE

PLAN FOR CORONATION MAORI AND ENGLISH TEXT MAP ON FINE LAMBSKIN [llY TKLECRAPTT —OWN" CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The message from the Girl Guides of New Zealand which is to be sent to King George and Queen I'Jizabcth at their Coronation, after being passed by hand from one guide district to another until it has visited all the provinces in the Dominion, is in the form of an illuminated address in Maori, together with the English translation, and executed on vellum.

A coloured map of New Zealand, which has been painted on a spociallyprepared lambskin, as clear and fine in texture as vellum, will accompany the address. This map actually illustrates the journey, showing the various forms of transport which have been planned. In some country districts the message will be convoyed in a bullockwaggon, by Maori canoe down a river, on horseback, bicycle, and on foot by relays of guides through towns. An aeroplane will be used to cross Cook Strait, and tho more conventional modes of travel, such as service car, rail car and train will also be used. In all cases the bearer of the message will ho a guide, who will deliver it to the next guide on receiving the password. It will be signed and sealed with the mayoral arms of tho principal towns through which it passes.

The message will start in Wellington from Government House on March 19. When it eventually returns to Wellington in May the message will return to Government House to the GovernorGeneral, Viscount Gal way, who will despatch it on behalf of the guides of New Zealand to Their Majesties.

Before her marriage Queen Elizabeth was a guide captain and commissioner in Scotland, and is well remembered by guides in New Zealand and Australia, where she appeared in guide uniform at several guide gatherings.