ROTORUA GIRL GUIDES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 98, 16 December 1931, Page 7

ROTORUA GIRL GUIDES

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Dear Guides, — How we enjoyed our game of rounders and the relay races at the breaking-up last week. Watching you run, led one to think the Guide company would prove a good recruiting field for the Athletie Club. We niust mention that serviee stars were presented to Myra, Pearl, Ivy, .Yvonne, Cassie, Joyee Mason, Joan Morgan, Grace, Alice, Clivena, Lorna and Beryl. Also badges as follows:Embroidress. Myra. Domestic Serviee: Moana. Coolc: Gwen Godsalve, Clivena, Isabelle. Athlete: Clivena, Joyee Mason. Music Lover and Minstrel: Jessie. We have to weleome to the company, Doreen, Maggie, Marie, Alma, and Betty, who, I am sure, will never forget their impressive enrolment by the light of the camp fire. Daffodils and Kingfishers are to be congratulated on winning Miss Harris' points prizes, Daffodils heing first and Kingfishers second. Captain says there were not many marks hetween them. It was a nice idea of the Red Kowhai and Kotare leaders to give a little prize to the best all-round girl in their patrols. Peggy and Joan tied in the Red Kowhais and Ivy was the successful Kotare girl. How everyone was clapped that night and weren't the cheers . real hearty ones? The holiday spirit was all round. It could be seen, heard and felt. Anyway, it was a great breaking-up wasn't it, and the chanting of the Guide laws and the singing of "Taps" was a perfect ending. May you all have happy holidays. Just one more news item hefore transporting you to Mokoia, where we left the Peacock Patrol last week. Gwen and Moana have gained their cook's badge and Yvonne, Moana and Mary their swimmers' and lifesavers'. They are very proud of themselves, I hear, and so are we all proud of them. The Peacock Patrol Letty and Daisy were left to watch camp and cook the dinner while the others went for a little climbing expedition to the top of the island. Nothing very exciting happened on the way up, and they were soon standing by the trig surveying the scene of heauty spread all round the island for their enjoyment. Presently Pat thought they had better t cross over to another point where they could see the camp and perhaps send some Morse to. the two girls there. Coming down through thick fern, they saw five or six bahy pigs and everyone exclaimed with delight. Mere went to piclc one up, but before she could do so, out carne old mother pig, who grunted urgently once, twice, and in a twinkling there wasn't a baby piglet to he seen/ Each one had scuttled to cover away from the imagined danger. The girls, on Teaching the lower point, could plainly see their camp, and yes, someone standing there calling them with a succession of dots. Molly, who was the expert signaller of the patrol, sent back the general answer and began to read the message from below. "Launch here. Lorna to return home. Mother called away. Wants Lorna to keep house," she read. She signalled, "returning camp at once"; and they set off down the hill at a fast pace. Poor Lorna hated leaving.camp and grew almost tearful about it. But Pat told her to buck up. "Duty first, Lorna. We can easily have another camp some time. And, here, I gathered some cherries before we went up the hill; you take them home and think of us when you are eating them." "Oh, Pat, I'll think of you, you may be sure. Tell me all about everything when you come back. I'll be on the wharf to meet you." "All right, Lorna. Good-bye. Goodbye." And they waved to her from the rocky landing until the launch had rounded the point.