GIRL GUIDES TO HOLD CAMP FIRES ON SATURDAY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 66, 10 December 1937, Page 15

GIRL GUIDES TO HOLD CAMP FIRES ON SATURDAY

On Saturday, December 11, Girl Guides of New Zealand will hold a Dominion camp fire. This will be on the same lines as the one -which was arranged for part of the guides' Coronation celebrations, but which had to be postponed. Eeferring to the camp fire, in "Te Rama," the guide magazine, Miss Ruth Herrick, chief commissioner for New Zealand, states: — "Instead of celebrating a great national event we now have given to us a great opportunity for service. All who Tead their newspapers will have seen the appeal made by the International Red Cross committee for the relief of distress in the Ear East caused by the war, The Red Oross societies in times of national disaster are known throughout the world for their impartiality in caring for suffering humanity and directing assistance where the need is greatest. "We have suggested to the Red Cross Society of New Zealand,' Miss Herrick continues, "that as guides we should like to help, and so it is proposed to make this Dominion camp fire one of service to which we bring gifts of medical comforts and other things suitable to send away to the East. The Red Cross Society has written to us telling us this will be a most acceptable way of assisting them in their efforts to supply what is needed. Thcy will supply a list of the most suitable requirements. These can be pjit together in a' box or case and handed over to the Red Cross or St. John Ambulance agents in the local centres, and they will be responsible for sending them away. " Commissioners and guiders will interest their guides and tell them what we are trying to do. I feel ?ure all eompanies will be keen to help and assist with the filling of a case of useful things. Almost everyone can make a triafagular bandage of grey calico or an eye bandage, and the youngest guides will be able to share with the making and giving as easily as those of Ranger age. "We don't often act together as one unit all ove.r New Zealand, doing the same thing at the same time, and this sh'ould make us feel strong and help us to enjoy to the full our own particular camp fire," Miss Herrick concludes. A camp fire will be held in Hastings in the grounds of St. Barnabas' HaU, Parkvale, at 7.30 on Saturday evening, to which the guides will bring their gifts for the Red Cross.