PATRIOTIC EFFORT BY GIRL GUIDES

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 4

PATRIOTIC EFFORT BY GIRL GUIDES

£3608 Raised In Two Months

A cheque for £3OOB collected by girl guides throughout New Zealand for patriotic purposes was handed to the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, at Government House on Saturday. At the invitation of the National Patriotic Council the Girl Guides’ Association undertook to provide £2400 for the building of recreation huts for soldiers stationed at mobilization camps throughout the Dominion. The appeal was launched at the end of last May and closed on July 20. From the smallest brownie upward every member entered into the campaign with a will, and not only contributed the quota, but raised £l2OB above, making a total of £3OOB/11/3. Many activities were undertaken by the children from combined shop disconcerts, copper trails, to individual efforts of earning money, such as cleaning cars, silver, windows, shoes, collectami selling firewood, fir cones, gathering and selling manure from the roadways, and in the Wairarapa fleecing dead sheep. Practically 80 per cent, of the money was raised by individual work on the part of the girl guides. It has not yet been decided what the National Patriotic Fund Board will do with the extra money, but of the four huts originally planned two are to be in the North Island and two in the south. They are to be called “Trefoil Huts,” the trefoil being the official badge of the Girl Guides’ Association.

The money raised in each province is to be credited against each provincial patriotic quota, as follows: —Wellington, £835/5/8; Auckland, £760/1/4; Canterbury and Westland, £477/6/10; Otago, £346/9/7; Hawke’s Bay, £253 2/1; Southland, £223/1/-; Nelson, £217 8/11; Poverty Bay, £lBB/1/2; Taranaki, £155/19/10; Marlborough, £l5l 14/10. .