GIRL GUIDES

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1927, Page 10

GIRL GUIDES

MEETING IN NEW PLYMOUTH. The monthly meeting of the District Committee of the New Plymouth Girl Guides was held on Friday. Present: Mesdames Hodson (in the chair), Bullock, Chivers, Gorringe, Alackay and Wilson. Apologies for absence were received from Mesdames Cruickshank, Keeling, Smith and Aliss Stewart. The secretary reported that the first knitters, toymakers and cyclist badge examinations had been held and all Guides entering had passed. The knitting and toymaking examiners reported that the Guides’ entries for the examinations were of a high standard. The examination for the Jellicoe Shield was held on October 8 under Dr. Brown and Sister Corkill, and entries for the Lady Alice Fergusson Cup (knitting and needlework) had been forwarded to headquarters. Results of these examinations were not yet to hand. The need for more Guiders is becoming urgent, as several are leaving the district at the end of the year. The committee appointed Mrs, Cruickshank as a delegate to the annual provincial meeting to be -held ou October 21. The committee received a welcome surprise in the form of a cheque for £lO through Airs. G. Home. This represents funds gathered by the committee ami officers of the disbanded Girl Peace Scouts and a donation from Mrs. Home. It was decided unanimously that Mrs. Home should be accorded a sincere vote of thanks for her donation, and that she should be assured that the committee would see that the funds were devoted to the purpose for which they were originally intended. Thanks were also tendered to Aliss Dorothy Harding, Aliss M. Berridge and the members of the Girl Peace Scout committee for giving their funds for the purchase of camping eqitipnienl.