GIRL GUIDES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1931, Page 24

GIRL GUIDES

The Garrison Hall last Saturday evening was a scene of much gaiety, when the first combined Banger and Eover gathering yet held in the Wellington district was conducted by an energetic combined committee. Miss Enid Bell, Deputy Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides for New Zealand, Miss Paterson, District Commissioner, Wellington South, Miss Walker,* District Commissioner, Wellington North, Mrs. Huggins, District Captain, Hutt Valley and Bays, Mr. H. Amos, Metropolitan Commissioner (Wellington), and Mrs. Amos, District (Commissioner, and Mrs. Johansen, Hill District, District Commissioner, and Mrs. 11. V. Foster, Wellington Central, District Commissioner ■H; H. Miller, Wellington South, and Miss Sybil-Bell, provincial secretary, Girl Guides Association, were present. Approximately 115 Rangers and 100 Eovers attended and the evening was devoted to a representative game of basket ball resulting in a draw, Eanger Patrol Leaders and Rovermates three to nil. The country dancing, which has proved so popular in England, was well received, and it is hoped that the public' may have an opportunity of witnessing this at some future rally. At 9 p.m. an adjournment was made to the St. John Ambulance Association rooms, Courtenay place, for a Eover investiture ceremony of Squire X,. Frcdrickson. Miss Enid B#!l presented Eanger Dorothy Athay with an all-round cord, and Mr. Amos presented Eovermate Cecil Paterson with hi» five years' service star. Supper and camp-fire songs, the sincring of, "Auld Lang Syne" and "Taps" brought a very happy evening to a' close. It was felt ;by those who attended that such gatherings from ' two movements working for the betterment of good citizenship in service, and assisting those younger sisters and brothers, would always have the sympathetic support and pn-oneration of all.