GUIDE CENTENNIAL CAMP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21553, 16 January 1940, Page 8

GUIDE CENTENNIAL CAMP

SPECIAL TRAINING FOR LEADERS To-day, approximately 120 young New Zealand women will go into camp at Tauherenikau racecourse, for a short period of training for services in time of National Emergency. The camp was originally planned to celebrate the Dominion’s Centenary, and arrangements were well in hand to give 600 Dominion and Overseas Guides an unforgettable holiday when war was declared. Since then the camp has been reorganised on a more warminded basis, with a view to training the older Guides and Leaders of Companies in services which will be useful to their country as well as to themselves should they ever be called upon to play a more aetve part in serving their country in time of war. In England the Guide training has proved a ready passport into any field of work. To everyone of the Women’s Auxiliary Services, Red Cross and A.R.P., recruits who have had guide training are welcomed for their efficiency, adaptability and sense of discipline Here in New Zealand almost all camps are regarded as a jollification for the young, and a time of discomfort and hard labour for everyone else. If the weather is unfavourable, misery for all. In Guide camps work and recreation are happily blended, and they have proved that it is possible to learn and, at the same time, enjoy learning.