GIRL GUIDES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 March 1932, Page 2

GIRL GUIDES

WEEKLY NOTES. Dear Guides, — So you have started off your new guiding year with lots of enthusiasm. That is good hearing. Patrol leaders and seconds won't have many idle moments with flve new recruits to teach and train. -Were you all thrilled to see the Lady Alice F'ergusson Cup which your Bay of Plenty Division so nearly won ? Congratulations to the following for receiving service stars and badges: — Stars: Doris, Beryl, 'Isabelle, Betty K., Mary, Valmai, Moana, Gwen, Joyce, Jessie and Betty T. Swimmers and Life Savers. Cooks: Moana. Laundress. Beryl and Mary. Cooks: Betty and Jessie. Poultry Farmers: Gwen. It really seems as though you are keeping the badge examiners busy. And in case you don't know, I must tell you that being busy is just exactly what pleases a badge examiner. Jessie and the two Gwens will soon be leaving you for Rangers. You all recognise, I am sure, what a good influence these girls have been in the company and you will join with me in wishing them every success and a jolly time in the Ranger world. Doris, we hope, will be a Ranger too. It would be a pity should she decide otherwise, as her practical common sense and thoroughness in all she undertakes would be of great assistance to the little Ranger band. They have lots of fun too, Doris. Now, captain will be making some new appointments and those of you who have worked hard for your patrols and shown promise of leadership will receive your reward. 'Good luck to the new leaders and seconds. Joan and Clivena are to be congratulated on their success at the school swimming sports. About first class. Is everyone who wears her second class badge fully determined to work hard for her first class this year? Do you remember what the Chief Scout says about it in "Girl Guiding?" "A guide who is content to sit down and be a second class guide is only a third class girl. It is true that when she has got her second class she can go in for proficiency badges and cover her arm with them; but I would rather see a guide with the one badge of first class on her left arm than one with a dozen on her right. I After all, the first class tests are I not so very hard. They look a lot, ' but like many other difficulties in thi world they are not so bad as they ! look when you smile at them and j tackle them." | So the idea is, guides, to go in for I those proficiency badges which you | must hold beforce you can become first | class. Do you know which they are? j TREFOIL.