GUIDE NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 23610, 10 September 1938, Page 21

GUIDE NOTES

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BIG GUIDE

There is at any given moment a best path for every man. To find this path and walk in it, is the one tiling needful for him.

Leaders Day On September 17 Leaders Day on September 17 is the training day for patrol leaders. You will learn. all kinds of interesting new things and _ you will be able to exchange ideas with other leaders and discover how other companies carry on the game of Guiding. If leaders cannot attend they should send their seconds, but it is a very important meeting. The training will be held at the Girls’ High School, Forth street, from 10.30 to 12.30 and the ’afternoon session will commence at 2 pjn. Remember the date is next Saturday. Bring notebook and pencil, piece of rope or cord and a few loose sheets of paper. The provincial rally, about which some instructions were given last week is to be held on Saturday, October 8. Companies will be getting particulars sent direct to their captains, but all can be attending to details of uniform, and so on, so that all will be prepared to carry out instructions. It is some years now since there was a provincial rally, so this one must be made a success. Guide captains and Brown Owls are reminded that they must collect the rally programmes at the Guide Library on Wednesday, September 14, from 7 to 7.30 p.m. This is important.

The usual meeting of the Invercargill committee will be held on Friday, September 16, at 3.45 p.m. An. English Lone Ranger company needed a new patrol leader, so the captain asked each ranger to answer three questions and then to nominate a leader. The questions were: (1) What the patrol leader expects of her patrol. (2) What the patrol leader expects of her second in command. (3) What the patrol expects from its leader. Lone companies as you know do all their work by correspondence, so when the captain received the replies, she tabulated them and circulated them in the

company letter. Here are those that could be applicable to an active company. You might take stock of your company in the same vzay. A leader will expect her patrol: (1) To be keen and interested. (2) Clean, tidy and smart. (3) To be obedient. (4) To keep the Guide laws. (5) To work hard and persevere. (6) To back up patrol leader. (7) To bring to her notice any difficulties. (8) To work for some badge. A leader will expect her second in command: (1) To back her up. (2) To set a good example. (3) “Be prepared” to take over patrol leader’s duties in an emergency. (4) Share her duties and help solve patrol problems. (5) To be obedient. (6) To endeavour to obtain ranger star. '■

The patrol expects its leader: (1) To treat recruits as a special responsibility. (2) Make things fresh and interesting. (3) Give encouragement. (4) Be capable. (5) Be a person in whom they can confide and who will help with minor problems. (6) Take some of the responsibility from the captain and lieutenant. (7) Show fairness in work and play.