GUIDE NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 23538, 18 June 1938, Page 12

GUIDE NOTES

By BIG GUIDE Thought for the week:—lt is not enough in this world to “mean well.” We ought to do well. Thoughtfulness therefore becomes a duty and gratitude one of the graces. There are a few slight alterations in the timetable for Miss Knight’s training. Times are:— Friday: 8 p.m.—9 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m.—l2; 2 p.m.—s p.m. 7 p.m.—9.30 p.m. Sunday: 10 a.m.—l2 (or free); 2 p.m. —5 p.m.; 6.30—9 p.m. To the list of things to be taken to the meetings please add rope or cord.

Guiders are reminded that the company levy of 10/- is now due. The jumble sale resulted in £5 Sibeing added to the provincial funds. The executive desires to thank all those who helped in the town area, Riversdale and Waikaia for cash donations and Mataura and Gore for goods. Badges for July are:—First class test, handy woman, dairy maid, scribe, dancer, child nurse, ambulance. First class test and child-nurse guides should watch these notes carefully.

Will all those who have occasion to communicate with the Lone Secretary please remember that Miss Turner, Education Office, Invercargill, has been appointed Post and Lone Secretary for Southland. We congratulate Miss J, McKenzie on her appointment as captain of the second Southland Lone Company. It is interesting to note that Miss McKenzie has been in the Lone Movement since 1933, first as a Guide, then Lieutenant and now as Guider. All Lone Guiders are urged to make an effort to attend at least some of the training sessions next week. Recently I met a Central Otago Guider who had travelled to the Otago gatherings and was most enthusiastic. That is further than any of you will have to travel. Annual balance is on July 31 and all records must be kept up to date. “Let us try to get a bird’s-eye view of the world and determine the part we, as Guiders, should play in the process of civilization,” writes the editor of Guider. “We have learnt that it is our duty to be ready for all emergencies. We believe in the ideal of world brotherhood, or we would not belong to the foremost international Youth Movement. It is for us now, to prepare ourselves in a spirit of calmness for an emergency which might confront us just as we have prepared ourselves in the past to render first aid in an accident. Thus as humanitarians, we can be ready to serve our fellow men should the need arise. But in the meantime we can, by our attitude to life, be of greater service to a larger community. We have, to a great extent, assumed responsibility for the future. The youth of today has been given into our keeping and it is for us to influence the minds of tomorrow.”