Girl Guide Notes

Southland Times, Issue 20664, 20 April 1929, Page 23

Girl Guide Notes

(By

“Tenderfoot.”)

Guides are now settling down to their Badge work, and apart from Company meetings, very little of interest has taken place. Ambulmce Class. Once more there was a gratifying attendance at the Ambulance Class last Wednesday. Mrs Chapman will be at the St.John Ambulance room at 3 o’clock again next Wednesday to enable the girls to

practise bandaging before the lectures on “Pressure Points,” which will be given from four o’clock till five. A Reiignation. The resignation of Miss Sligo, formerly a lieutenant in the Central Company, has been received with regret. Miss Sligo also did good work as a Guider in the Bluff Company. Dominion Camp. Several Guides who had been present at the Provincial Camp at Waikiwi during the Easter holidays spent the day at Mrs Macdonald’s house at Otatara last Saturday in order that they might pass the remaining subjects for their Pioneer’s badges. That brings me to the most important part of the paragraph. How many girls intend to be present at the Dominion Camp in Wellington? Although it may yet seem very early to inquire, headquarters is anxious to know as nearly as possible the number of Guides to expect from each province. Until the numbers attending the camp are known, it will be very difficult to give any definite information about the cost. It was thought last year that the cost would be about £4. I think it would be an excellent idea if those guides who wish to attend the camp set to work now to earn the money required. It would be

such fun to realize that you had earned your camping experience, wouldn’t it? Anzac Day. There will be no Guide Parade on Anzac Day as it is the desire of those responsible for the arrangements, that all girls should parade with their own schools on that day. Brownie Hats. Brownie hats may now be obtained at Hallenstein Bros., so that we shall soon have the pleasure of seeing all Brownies neatly arrayed in new uniforms. Birthday Party. Mrs Macdonald, Provincial Commissioner and Miss Campbell, District Captain, were invited to attend a birthday party at Otautau last night. I hope to be able to tell you something about the party next week. .A COMPETITION. In the April issue of The Dominion Girl Guide an interesting competition is announced as follows: “The undermentioned prizes will be given to the Guides who can secure the greatest number of new subscribers to The Dominion Girl Guide. "Conditions: Full name and address of new subscribers must be given. A year’s

1 subscription of 3s 6d must accompany name I and address, and reach the editor before I June 12. “The following prizes have been present- ! ed by an interested friend: First prize, ! £2 2s; second prize, £1 Is; third prize, 10s. I Six small prizes.” • The object is to raise funds for the Dominion camp in 1930. This publication should be in every home ' where the navy blue uniform is worn. > ALLIED TO SCOUTS AND GUIDES. : In South Africa an interesting organizat- ; ion, parellel with the Scouts and Guides is i being established among the non-white ; people of the Union. The boys take the name of Pathfinders and the girls that of Wayfarers. They do not seek incorporation with the Guides and Scouts as the colour prejudice is at present too strong for that, but they hope to . develop on lines suitable for their characteristics, and eventually to become incorporated in a world federation of such movements. From both the Chief Scout and Lady Baden-Powell they have received much encouragement. The uniform, which is brown, harmonizea with the wearers' brown skins and the dry I brown African veldt.

I THE COMPASS PLANT. There grows on the prairies of SouthWest America strange plants that on many occasions have been the means of saving the lives of travellers lost in storms sweeping over the boundless lands. This plant, which was first brought to the attention of the scientific world by General Benjamin Alvord, is one of the most remarkable in the world. Known as the compass plant, it received its name for the strange property exhibited by its leaves of presenting their faces to the rising and setting sun. The compass plant is perennial, and during its first years bears radical leaves only. In its second year it is - a flowering herb, with four or five leaves measuring from twelve to thirty inches in length. It is found mainly on the rich prairies of the Mississippi Valley, and its peculiar powers were well known to hunters and settlers long before General Alvord discovered it. When lost on dark nights they would search for it and, by feeling the leaves, obtain their bearings.