GIRL GUIDES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 167, 19 July 1935, Page 8

GIRL GUIDES

COMMISSIONERS RESIGN. DISSENSION AT AL'CKLAND. (Per Pre.\> Awxiat’on.) AUCKLAND, July 18. Six of lhe eight Commissioneis of the Giri Guide movement in the Auckland district have sent their resignations together with their warrants to the Provincial Commissioner, following alleged dissension among their ranks. Tiie officials of lhe movement are reticent, but it is learned that the resignation# arc the result of one highly - placed officer over-ruling the decision of another of lesser tank. Miss Beryl Knight, one of the Divisional Commissioners, appointed a girl to the command of a company. There had been two candidates for the position, but when A was appointed, B made representations of the Provincial Commissioner, Mrs. K. J. Coates. It is under stood that following this action A was disrated and that B was then given the rank of captain in charge of the company. Her decision challenged by lhe Provincial Commissioner, and her captain disrated, Miss Knight apparently believed that the only course open to her was to resign her command. This she did and forwarded her rcsignalion to lhe Provincial Commissioner, Mrs. Coates. Five other Commissioners, Misses Hayward, Matthews (Te Ape), McComb (Papatoetoe) and John st on (Northcote) contending that a principle was at stake, tendered their resignations when they learned the position. All six resignations are now in the hands of the Provincial Commissioner, who so far has not forwarded 1 hem to the Chief Commissioner for New Zealand, Miss Herrick, at Dominion headquarters in Hastings.