GUIDES' GREETINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 10

GUIDES' GREETINGS

Message on Vellum to Their Majesties MAY0RAL SIGNATURES The Mayor of Napier, Mr. C. O. Morse, will bo asked. nest Saturday ovening to affix the Mayoral signature to the lamb-vellum document on which is inscribed the New Zealand Girl Guides' message to Their Majesties on the occasion of the Coronation. This document is being taken by Girl Guides all over the Dominion to receive signatures, and the route the document takes is being shown on a map incorporated with the message. The document is contained in a metal cylinder which carries a red tab with the inscription; "King's Messenger." After reeeiving the signature, of the Mayor of Napier, it will be taken to Hastings, where Mr. G. A. Maddison will affix his signature, The map, the Maori message of which has been inscribed by Bishop Bennett, leaves Gisborne on the morning of Saturday, arriving at Wairoa at noon, where a short ceremony is to be held. Later the map will be brought on to Napier by car by a Wairoa Guida until a car from Napier is met. Here the map is transferred to the Napier guide, who changes cars and brings them aS far as Westshore, where it will be met by two Guides from the St. Andrew's Company, Port Ahuriri, and carried by hand to the corner of Coote road and Shakespeare road, where it is to be transferred to Guides of the St. Paul Company, who take the map to the residence of the Commissiner, Mrs. H. H. Barnett, in Nelson Crescent. AtA 6.30 p.m. Guides from the St. Augustine's Company will receive the map from the Commissioner and present it to the Mayor, Mr. Morse, at the Sound Shell at 7 p.m., where the Mayoral seal will be affixed. In view of -the fact that the map carries the Mayoral seal of every town it has visited where there is a Guide troop it should create considerable interestamong the public. It will then be transferred onco again to the Commissioner *s home by Trinity Guides, and from there at 2 p.m. on the following day it will be taken by members of tho St. Augustine 's Company along the Taradale road, where the Greendale Guides will take over, and transfer it in relays to the Pakowhai Post Office where it will then be taken by Hastings Guides and transferred to Hastings in a similar manner. In each instance the greeting during the transferring of the map will be as follows: — Receiver: Half. Who goes there? Messenger: A King's messenger with greetings to His Majesty King George VI. Who carries this message? Receiver: I do. Messenger: Speed on, King'e messenger. God save the KiirgJ On the morning of May 12 the map will have completed its tour of New Zealand and be handed in at Government House to His Excellency, Lord Galway, who, on behalf of the Guides of the Dominion, will forward it to His Majesty.