GIRL GUIDES’ NEW HOME.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20691, 13 April 1929, Page 24

GIRL GUIDES’ NEW HOME.

IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS. “PRICE LIST” OF BUILDING MATERIAL. (Fnou Oub Own Cop respondent.) LONDON, March 1. ihe Girl Guide is 18 years old this year. Her ‘ coining out,” which synchronises with the “ coming-of-age ” of the Boy Scout, is to be marked by the beginning of an ambitious but very necessary enterprise. This is the building of the Guides’ own Imperial Headquarters on a very suitable site which has been secured in Buckingham Palace road. The membership of the Guides, in the Empire alone, now numbers more than 500,000, and it is felt that such an organisation should possess an adequate home wherein to direct its activities and to observe towards foreign Guides the duties of hospitality. At present the headquarters staff is distributed among four buildings, and to some extent is dependent for house room upon the Scouts. In the hope that the whole cost of their new home—a sum of £74,500—wi1l be ™ is «l .by the Guides themselves, the building materials ” are offered for sale to individual Guides, companies, packs, and districts. A roll of the names of all the purchasers will be kept at headquarters, but companies and packs who buy bricks will receive a certificate designed by the Chief Scout himself for display in their own club room. Following is the “price list”:— Bricks, 2s 6d each; staircase steps, £2 10a each. Windows and doors, from £5 to £SO. Corner stones, £lO. Pilasters. £IOO. Rooms, from £SOO to £IOOO. Council chamber, £2OOO. , About 800,000 bricks will be required m addition to 200 corner stones. 150 windows. 115 doors, 166 stircase steps, and 212,000 wooden floor blocks. The present address of the Girl Guides’ Association is 25 Buckingham Palace road, London, S.W.I,