THE GIRL GUIDES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18633, 18 February 1935, Page 12

THE GIRL GUIDES

A SLIGHT TO WAIROA

(Herald Correspondent.)

It is understood in Wairoa that Lord and Lady Baden-. Powell will arrive in Hawke’s Bay to-day, and various functions are arranged up to Thursday next. Until uoon on .Saturday no invitation had neen extended to the Wairoa Girl Guides to send a contingent to take part in the rally next week in connection with the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement. Seeing that the’ chiefs of the movement, Lord and Lady Baden-Poweil, have come half way round the world to meet the Scouts and Guides the latter at least, who are a considerable number, should not have been passed over, especially as Wairoa sent one of its Girl Guide officers, Miss Irma Wilson, to the big rally in Europe. Wairoa is second on the. list of Guides affiliated to Hawke’s Bay, and it is considered in Wairoa that a gross slight has been placed on the Guides in the. district in passing them over. As a matter of discipline the Guides cannot move at all without a permit from headquarters, and up to Saturday afternoon the local leaders who assist in the Guide movement had nothing to report on the matter. It will be remembered that on the occasion of the Duke of Gloucester’s visit it was learned a day or two previously. by a pressman that no orders bad reached Wairoa jn reference to the Girl Guides, and the local committee had to telegraph away for a permit to parade. There is very strong feeling among supporters of the Guide movement.