FINE RESULT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 204, 26 August 1940, Page 3

FINE RESULT

GIRL GUIDES AIR AMBULANCE APPEAL METHODS OF RAISING FUNDS To those who missed the 8.8.C. broadcast about the result of the Girl Guides Empire Appeal the following account from London will be of interest. The gift, of two flying ambulances to the lioyal Air Force, each costing £7500 sterling, completes the allocation of the proceeds of the Girl Guides Appeal throughout the. Empire which raised ovj3<r £48,000. Contributions poured in from every corner of the globe where there are British Guides. New Zealand Guides contributed £1000. H.R.H. Princess Royal handed over to the R.A.F. the tw<D Oxford Airspeed Ambulances, which are miniature hospitals carrying four casualties. Other beneficiaries of the appeal are: Royal Navy, which received £11,000 for motor ambulances; the Army received £10,000 for rest rooms and the Y.M.C.A. £5000. A motor lifeboat, costing £5000, was also pur chased out of the money and the boat was taken before it was completed, for use in the evacuation of Dunkirk. It was badly damaged and is now being repaired. In future il is to be called "The Guide of Dunkirk." Many and various were the ways in which the Guides earned their money from doing odd jobsj washing cars, cleaning silver,, weeding gardens and helping in kitchens. One Guide in Great Britain went every morning to the Police Station to clean the Sergeant's boots, while a Leper Company in India went without meat and fish for a welce to raise their share.