Much Is Expected Of Guides: Future Homemakers

Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1949, Page 4

Much Is Expected Of Guides: Future Homemakers

Every girl that passes' through the Levin Guide Company has the pportanity of becommg not , only an excelient citizen, but also -an expero housewife if the dispiay in che window of Messrs W. M. Clark, Ltd., can be taken as any indication. The dispiay, which is to mark Guide Week and eneourage membership, features most aspects of guiding hfe, from the femininity of delicate needlework to a solidiybuiit patrol box ahd serviceable camp stooi. A guide is also ex^pected to be a homemaker, laundxess, cobk, child nurse, nurse, lifesaver and a land girl. . Forming an admirable background to the dispiay i§ the Union Jack and the flag of the 1st Levin. Company, -which bears emblems of the guide motemeht. Ihe dispiay is one which all should See, if only to realise the great work being done' for the youth of the Dominion by the guide movement. Guide Week commence'd on Sunday with church parades throughout the Dominio'n. Guides from Levin and Otaki were among the 13 companies represented in the district parade at Palmerston North. Ih the evening the Dominion president, Her Excellency Lady Freyberg, made a broadcast appeal over all national stations for more leaders to volunteer for duties in the association, Outiining tne ^reason for holding a -guide week Lady Freyberg sard it had been planned to bring the movement into wider notice throughout the Dominion and "to give our companies an extra incentive and stimulus, first in their own activities and then in a gesture of international service to the life-work of a New Zealander, Rewi Alley, to whom the guides are sending friendship parceis for- his co-operai/ive school in China."