GIRL GUIDE NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5407, 5 April 1929, Page 4

GIRL GUIDE NEWS.

The Girl Guide headquarters are q-tablished in Wellington. Mrs A. H. Waters has provided for a year a large airy room in Kelvin Chambers, The Teri ace.. The fomal opening was held last week, Mrs Waters being welcomed by Miss Enid Bell, deputy Chief Commissioner for N'Z., acting Provincial Commissioner for Wellington, v.ho, on behalf of the committee warmly thanked her for her g.euerous gift. The room is to be used as a study for guiders, and will be; much in use during the coming year, as Miss Dalton, a. diploma Guide, has. arrived to train Guides for a year.

During the afternoon Mrs Waters unveiled a portrait of the world president. Princess Mary, which her Royal Highness had signed and given to Miss Bell when the latter was in England, together with, a message of good wishes for the N.Z. Girl Guides Association. PAEROA GIRL GUIDES. Tuesday being, a line day and a school holiday, the Guides, headed by their captain, hurriedly arranged a hike, those especially interested being the Guides anxious to obtain their Pioneer’s Badge. Taiariki Creek was decidled upon, as eminently suitable, everything necessary for the tests being procurable in the vicinity. On arrival a camp flag-staff was procured and the Hag hoisted with due ceremony. Immedi-. ately afterwards woodcutter and cook’s patrols we;ro detailed to prepa; e the midday meal, stew being made qne of the tests. A bathing paradte was formed under the charge of life-savers, after which a quiet hour was spent in a Pioneer Badge; talk.

After dinner gadget-making was the oi dor of the day, model camp furniture, screening, and camp fireplaces of different shapes and sizes bejing constructed. Then came free time, during which several Guides went up the creek to gather ferns for the cemetery, wjiiKt others went to the e.emctery itself to tidy and weed l several graves belonging to t,he;ir friends, ferns beingplaced thereon as small mementos.

The next event on the programme was tea, another patrol taking charge of this and turning out a scrumptious meal of friejl sausages, boiled eggs, bread and jam, and billy tea. The Guides were very grateful to Mrs Treanor for most kindly providing the camp with free; milk. A scouting game, the ti lying-up of the whole camp, and the singing, of God Save the King brought a glorious and long-to-be-iomeinbered day to an end.