GIRL GUIDE NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1926, Page 5

GIRL GUIDE NEWS

The Miramar Methodist Company of Girl Guides both thoroughly enjoyed themselves and also showed the effect of their officers' excellent training on Tuesday evening, when they celebrated the birthday of their company. Tea, with a big birthday cake, was given by the parents' committee. A bouquet of red anemones was presonted to the captain, Miss G.. Fathers, by Lilian Whitely, and after which a large Union Jack was presented to the guides to be their company colours. This was given by Sister Anne Tucker, for a friend in England. Tea over, games followed, and a large number of friends and parents gathered to watch a most excellently carried out programme of guide songs, games, etc., followed by an enrolment ceremony and the presentation of service stars and badges by the Divisional Commissioner for Wellington, Mrs. H. Kirkcaldie. During the evening the guides were drawn up in patrol formation, and Mrs. Emmitt, president of the parents' committee, gave to the company a beautiful company standard, given by the committee, and designed by Mr. Boxall and embroidered by Mrs. Emmitt. The standard was of pale blue silk, with the company name and the guide trefoil heavily embroidered on it, and the whole bordered with gold; Afterwards Emmitt spoke to the girls, recalling the tattered famous remnants of flags which hung in so many of the churches at Home, and saying that she hoped that in the same way that these flags had been an inspiration of the regiments to which they belonged, she hoped that this standard would always be an inspiration to the guides of the Miramar company. The standard was received by the captain. Following ■ are the names of the parents' committee to whom the success of the evening was so largely due: —Mesdames Sawtell, Kelly, Buck, Whiteley, Biddell, Congreve, Tomlin, Young, Mehaffy, Arkinstall. The Miramar company has achieved excellent results during the last year, judging by the following number of badges which have beon won by different girls:—2 cooks, 1 embroiderer, 4 health, 2 needlewomen, 2' swimmer, 6 domestic service, 7 entertainer, 1 ambulance, 1 milliner, 1 toymaker.