FIRST ROTORUA GIRL GUIDES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 60, 2 November 1931, Page 5

FIRST ROTORUA GIRL GUIDES

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Dear Guides,— It was a great moment for the company when the Rangers were enrolled, was it not? Now, when you find you are beginning to outgrow the company,- you will be able to go on to the jolly littie band of Rangers. They haVe great fun at their meetings, they tell us. Some of you older ones are not exactly keen to leave your beloved company, we know; but have you eonsidered that there are some. very enthusiastic guides waiting as patiently as they can for the day when you will hand over the reins of your patrols to them? It is a pity, and hardly fair to keep them waiting too long for their turn as leaders and seconds. There isn't in your ten guide laws one which says "A Guide is selfish," you know. Perhaps you just haven't thought about it that way. But do think about it, please,' and you must see that it is only sporting to let another girl have a shot at managing a patrol. There is nothing to prevent a senior guide when she has become a Ranger, from going on with her first-class guide test. The Rangers were very pleased to see Mrs. Anderson and also members of the committee present at their enrolment. The guide reeruits who received their trefoils that night were pleased no doubt to he taking part in a bigger ceremony than the ordinary enrolment. Kotares are to be congratulated on their nature log. Captain was very pleased that they had noticed my littie bint about nature logs, and says they fully deserved the red ribbon. I was pleased, too, when told about it; any proof that you read this letter and take notice of it is always pleasing to me. Congratuiations to Jessie, Isabel, Valmai, Gwen and Moana on gaining Embroideress' and Toymakers' Badges. Everyone seemed pleased that Auckland Province won the Lady Alice Fergusson Shield; and wasn't it nice to know that some of the work done by our own Rotorua girls helped to win it? Commissioner was pq-oud of you, wasn't she? And Joyce received well-deserved praise for her beautifully knitted hot water bag cover. Captain says that some of you are not quite sure of the words of the Litany, and as you should know them, I will give them to you here. Please learn and remember them, so that next time we hear the company sing the Litany, it will sound more like a company singing, and not like a single patrol. "May we he trusty, and ever loyal be, And may we be faithful to God and all mankind. May we be useful and sver friendly he, And may we be faithful to God and all mankind. May we he courteous, and ever kindly be, And may we be faithful to God and all' mankind. May we be obedient, andj ever eheerful be, And may we he faithful to God and all mankind. May we be thrifty and pure in thought, word and deed, And may we be faithful to God and all mankind."