GIRL GUIDES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 7

GIRL GUIDES

CENTENNIAL CAMP By Telegraph—Press association WELLINGTON. June 22. Not to be outdone by the Boy Scouts with their centennial jamboree, the Girl Guides will hold a centennial camp at Tauherenikau in January. The 600 girls will include official representatives of England, the United States, Sweden, Australia, Rarotonga. Fiji and other countries. At a recent meeting of the camp committee in Wellington, Miss Ruth Herrick, of Napier, Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides in New Zealand, reported that the site at the Tauherenikau racecourse was most satisfactory. A layout had been mapped and an organisation framed for the staffing of the camp, which would be run entirely by commissioners and guiders of the New Zealand Girl Guides’ Association. There would be about 3C Maori girls .. camp. Unspecified numbers of guides were coming from various Australian States. The latter would tour New Zealand and would spend four or five days at the camp, being quartered at the Featherston and Greytown schools. Lady Galway would take the slute at the march-past on January 23. On January 19 the Guides will visit the Exhibition. There would be special camp-fires and an all- night Like for rangers for the Bledisloe Cup competition. Brownie '■ever would also be held one afternoon. Dr. Moana Gow would be in charge o< the health arrangements and hospital tent and would be assisted by two trained nurses.