GIRL GUIDES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 2

GIRL GUIDES

“COMING OF AGE.” A WEEK OF CELEBRATION. This week, May 23 to 29, has been sot aside as a short festival in the Girl Guide year, to remind all Guiders and Guides that for twenty-one years the movement has been steadily growing in health and strength, until to-day it numbers over a million members in all parts of the world. “Guide Week” is a birthday week and a celebration of a twenty-first birthday is always a great occasion. Owing to economic conditions the plans to hold a big international rally in England have ha dto bo cancelled but Imperial headquarters hopes that Guides throughout the world will con sider the week as a special Guide week, keeping in front of them the ideal of service for others, thus making the week a'special week of service, culminating in some kind of jollification, wherl the Guides may “hapjjyfy” (the Chief Scout’s word) themselves and others. Eaich company in Wanganui has planned a special “company good | turn” to take place during the week. I whilst at 3 o’clock on Saturday after- . noon, under th P guidance nf the City Council, twenty-one trees of commemoration will bo planted in the vicinity of the Queen’a Park War Memorial. The Brownies will also share in the festivities. They are holding Brownie revels in St. Paul’s Hall on Saturday afternoon and their Guiders, the “Wise Brown Owls” and “Tawnies” aro planning all kinds of exciting surprises. The hall of the Wanganui Technical College should present a very lively scene on Saturday evening when some three hundred Guides, Guiders, Com missioners and members of the Executive Committee and Company Committees are holding a Guide birthday tea followed by a huge vamp fire at which each company is contributing an item. Sunday, the 29th., is being kept throughout the Empire as Guide Sunday. Through the courtesy of the management of the Majestic Theatre, a commemoration service will bo held there at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Special forms of service have been printed for the occasion and it is hoped that in addition to members of the Guide and Scout organisations there will bo a good attendance of parents and friends. The Collection will be handed to His Worship* the Mayor for the relief of unemployment.