WHITIANGA GUIDES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3273, 9 June 1943, Page 7

WHITIANGA GUIDES

NEW MEMBERS ENROLLED

GIRL GUIDE’S PROMISE GIVEN

On May 8, ’in the, Whitianga school room, a very impressive cere'mony was enacted by a group of young people who form the Whitianga Girl Guide Company. Seven new members were enrolled in the company which is under the leadership of an enthusiastic youth leader, Captain L. Robinson. Those girls who entered the ranks of “Girl Guiders” were Dawn Colquhoun, Dorothy Moss, Jean Colquhoun, Lyla Chaney, Daphne Delamore, Dulcie Delamore and Audrey Hamilton. Among those present who witnessed the enrolling ceremony and heard each girl pledge herself with the Girl Guide promise, were the Whitianga Girl Guide Committee and the mothers of the girls. Afternoon tea was served'and concluded the afternoon’s ceremony. PROFICIENCY BADGES FOLK DANCING FOR GUIDES On May 29, eight Whitianga Girl Guides took part in folk dancing to gain their proficiency badges. The manner in which . each girl performed her part of the delightful folk dances was both entertaining and proficient. The intricate movements of such folk dances as “Black Nag,” “Threadi the Gander,” “Twin Sisters,” “Rufty Tufty,” “Gathering Peascods,” “Brighton. Camp<,” “Gallopede,” “Nancy’s Fancy” and “Durham Reel” were perfectly performed by the neat figures in blue, and gave credit to the training they had received under Commissioner K. Harrison, Whitianga, and Captain L. Robinson, who by their whole-heart-ed co-operation had been responsible

in making the Whitianga Girl Guide Company so successful and with such an enthusiastic following. Several patch-work quilts and other handwork made by four other Guides gained them their Thrift Badges. Afternoon tea agaib concluded a worthwhile afternoon’s entertainment.

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