GUIDE NOTES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21412, 2 March 1935, Page 8

GUIDE NOTES

+ lßy THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.] The rehearsal for the rally will be held this afternoon at the Show Grounds, and all guides must be on tftc grounds by 2 p.m. If it is wet tha rehearsal will be held at the Barracks. If showery or uncertain, ring the guide office.

All companies and packs know that the rally for the chiefs will be held at the Show Grounds on Saturday, March 9. If wet in the barracks. Companies and packs must be on the grounds at 1.30 p.m. sharp. Details have been forwarded to all companies and packs. Guiders and brown owls arc asked to sec that they are strictly adhered to. Committee members arc reminded that they are asked to choose one member to help with the sale of refreshments, who will not pay for admission, and must attend at 11 a.m. at the grounds, where Mrs Alston will be in charge. All guiders, lieutenants, brown owls, tawny owls, patrol leaders and rangers arc asked to attend an evening rally to be given by Christchurch guiders as a welcome to Lady Baden-Powell. Former guiders are also welcome, but all must wear uniform. If fine this rally will be held at 17 Armagh street but if wet in the Training College hall. The Founders Day service will be held at the Cathedral on Sunday, March 10. Brownies are asked io join in this year and full particulars will be sent to the packs. Guides must line up outside the guide office at 2.10 p.m. sharp. There will be a collection at the service, which will count as the Thinking Day pennies to be forwarded to the World Bureau. Second Class Test In a large company, with guides at all stages of proficiency, there is often little time for those who have passed second class to practise what they have learnt. Thus it is advisable occasionally to hold a second-class revision test. About three hours is required to work through the following programme:—The guides may be advised a fortnight in advance that the test will be held. This gives them time to revise; the object being to ensure that all guides wearing secondclass badges are second class and not merely to discover how much they have forgotten. Patrol marks are awarded in each section. (l) Knowlodge of the guide law-each patrol in turn acts a story illustrating any guide law; five minutes is allowed for preparation and five minutes for each patrols performance. (2) Morse-The «hficf S tT d lZ ided ' half of them whilst the others act as writers. The ?h£ *k leaders > keeping together so that the speed is the same for all tS t^ e th fe - llowi * ng , or a similar senl * to Patrols: "Put your belt on the platform now." Marks are scored for correctness, and by the nrst guide to perform the action The writers then become readers and the leaders signal: "j ump over a piece of Si! (3) Nature-The wr 1 ' eated in patrol formation, ma V , de , sc u n Ption of a flower, animal, bird, fish, or insert without menth^ mg u by name - The Papers are then exchanged with the neighbouring patrol and the descriptions guessed A point is scored by the writer if her flower is named correctly, for her ability to describe it accurately. Also at the guider's discretion, for good descriptions even though they are not guessed (4) Fire-lighting_A vari*y °l stlcks and bark, of good and bad burning woods, are brought to the meeting by the guiders and placed a? the e^ a Sf r^ n fr ° nt ° f patrol at the end of the room. The guides race to build patrol fires Points are given for the woods selected ° he cor" (5? K y J: g p f th ? fire and f °r 2* n2t s -Rope is placed in front of Th? rSt!."? 1 at ° ne end of the room, ihe patrols are numbered off at the S" end " The guider «Us out a , ot \ and a number. The guides called race to tie the the knot and their be i° re raCing **<* to their patrol. Two points can 'be scored each time by the runners one andoL C °£ ect u ttying , ng of the and one for the knowledge of its additional Point is g awarded ahoii . gU i de h 0 has won both the fe ™ d f 1S , first . bac * her'place. S/f/ 1 th»s Programme will appear next week;.