GUIDE NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 24273, 2 November 1940, Page 14

GUIDE NOTES

Lord Galway’s Farewell Visit I Most Guides and Brownies will alI ready know that a civic function is to j be held next Thursday in honour of I their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Gali way. All Guides and Brownies, with I their officers, will parade, and will be inspected by his Excellency. Guides and Brownies are to assemble outside the Victoria avenue gates of Queen’s Park, not later than 3.30 p.m. Recruits not in uniform may not parade with their companies or packs. Sports Rally The sports rally will be held on Sat- ; urday, November 16, weather permitting. The same instructions hold as before. On Flying The Flags Some weeks ago an article appeared in these notes on the Union Jack, the composition of which a Guide must know for the tenderfoot test. Continuing this, we give the knots used in hoisting the colours. First, to the litttle wooden toggle at the top attach a clove hitch, making sure that it is round the rope behind the toggle, not merely round the toggle. Then to the loop at the other end of the hoist attach a double sheetbend, which stands wind and strain much better than an ordinary sheetbend. In making a double sheetbend, the working end of the rope, after coming up through the loop, is passed twice round the loop instead of once and then finished off in the usual way. Patrols can make miniature flags, flagpoles and halyards and practise hoisting I the flag, making a relay race of it, un--1 til they become adept and will feel I confident when faced with the hoist- | ing of a real flag. Value Of Girl Guide Training From all over the Empire comes news of how the Girl Guides are helping with war work and how useful they are finding their Guide training. This is particularly proved by the following account just to hand from London. Many Guiders served in France when the British Expeditionary Force was there and one Guider who was driving a car as liaison officer for the French and British Red Cross tells of many exciting adventures and how extremely useful she had found her Guide training, not only first aid which she had constantly to practise, but also stalking and tracking, hiding in ditches or up in trees when they ran into German advanced patrols, finding the signs these patrols had left in the forests, piloting a small fishing boat across the Channel by the sun and stars without a map or compass and finally signalling in semaphore to inform a British naval patrol of their identity.