GIRL GUIDES CAMP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 20

GIRL GUIDES CAMP

CENTENNIAL FIXTURE PARTIES FROM OVERSEAS MANY COUNTRIES REPRESENTED [flT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] W KLLIXGTOX, Friday The New Zealand Girl Guides will hold a Centennial camp at Tauherenikau in January, when 600 girls who will attend will include official representatives of England, the United States, Sweden, Australia. Rarotonga, Fiji and other countries. At a recent meeting of the camp committee in W ellinglon Miss Ruth Herrick, of Napier. Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides in New Zealand, reported that the site at the Tauherenikau Racecourse was most suitable. The lay-out had been mapped and the organisation framed for staffing the camp, which would be run cntirelv by commissioners and guides. 'there would be about ilO Maori girls. Unspecified numbers of guides were coming from various Australian States, added the report. They would tour Now Zealand and would spend four or five days at the camp, being quartered at the Featherston and Greytown schools. Her Excellency Viscountess Gahvay would take the salute at the march past on January 2.'!. On January I'J the guides would visit (he exhibition. There would be special camp fires and an all-night, hike for rangers for the Bledisloe Cup competition. Brownie revels would also he held one afternoon. Dr. Monna Gpw would be in charge of the health arrangements and tho hospital tent, and would be assisted by two trained nurses.