GUIDE NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5397, 8 March 1929, Page 4

GUIDE NEWS.

Miss Emmott, the Paeroa Guider, recently r.eeeived news that she has ob-. tained her Camper’s. License. The Captain hopes, to arrange a camp to take pla c e prior to the Dominion one next January, and this will ena.bje certain Guides to obtain their pioneer Badge, .which will admit them to that camp. CAMPERS IN CENTRAL EUROPE. Recently twenty-six English Guides and Rangers spent, three weeks in cai.np in Poland. One; says: “Never can wc forget the camp fires. There were camp fires en masse, when 1300 of us would congregate and yet seem like one large fam--ily. The girls sang divinely, as they are; very musical; but they were not content to sing all the evening. They would dance natural dances, or act a legend ; and l once a vioflin. was played to us very sweetly in the darkness of. the forest behind. We could not see the player. As wc sat around the fire we could see llam.es of other firps, which silhouetted the fir trees, and.' snatches of otlvc;r songs yvould be heard in the silenc.es. 'Always after camp we sang “Taps” very slowly, s<»mc in Polish and we in'English, and then at 9 p.m. a girl bugler would sound the “Last Post,” and wherever, we were we would stand: at attention. Then as we Jay in bed the guard’s lamp would flicker past our tents and wc would whisper “Dobra noc” with a wonderful peace in our hearts. On Sunday the President eaane. We were all grauped star-fashion around' the flag-mast (a tal.l straight fir tree) to greet him, and he received! Mass at the beautiful camp altar, which the guides themselves had built. Although they can laugh, sing, and play like children, one was struc,k by their simple religious fervour and sincerity, and by their obvious love for their faith.”