Girl Guides and Brownies

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 14 December 1946, Page 3

Girl Guides and Brownies

J1U AfvA.

Hello, Guides. How are the eamp menus going' ? I haven't received any yet and it is only a week to school holidays, when these letters will stop for a time, so lnu-ry them along if you would like to sea yours in print. This week I am going' to tell you of a game you ean play to help you ±or eamp. I think I mentioned it before, but I think it would be grand to use as an inter-patrol eompetition and I will give the answers -next week. Take a paper and head up eolumns, Incinerator, Grease Pit, Refusei Pit, ■ Pig Bueket. Divide up the following i items of rubbish that niight be over 'from camp, saying where you would put them. It is important that we should elear away any rubbish carefully as otherwise we cannot leave the site as nice as when we found it. Here is the list: — Outside cabbage leaves, broken plate (I hope we shall not have any), paper off the meat, lemon peels, rhubarb leaves, j'am tin, washing-up water, carrot tops, pot serapings, water from soaking eooking pots, banana skins, toffee papers, turnip peelings, ashes from fire, egg shells. You may think of others and challenge your rivals to place them correctly. How are the programmes going? Are we going to have an exsiting eamp, or is every day going- to be like every other? I hope not. 'I'm sure 3rou have lots of original idea's, so take them out for an airing — it'll do them = g ood. How many of you have garderis? Do you think we might be able to supply I- the eamp, for most of the time at any rate, with home-grown vegetables? It would eut down the cost, and then, even more important, they are mueh nieer when they are freshly Ipicked. Let Captain know if you might | be able to help in this way. | Are you all out hiking in every possible spare moment in these lovely sunny days ? It is such fun and excel- | lent preparation for eainp. Will you j be able to cook and serve us a splendid | three-course dinner out of all .-orts | | of oddments and using hardly any | i utensils ? We could hardly expect ;pite | , that of 3'ou, but do get out and try I your liand at cooking in the opcn. j Food tastes so mueh better when \rou cook it yourself in the great out-of-s doors. f Answers to Quiz No. 17. | 1. Otimai is our Guide home in the f Waitakere Ranges, near Auckland. It is a lovely house in the midst ofLeautiful bush and was given to the Guide movement in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wilson and Mrs. Roy Wilson. I hope some, or better still all, of you may have a chance to visit Otimai some- day. 2. When you are earrying Colourjs, l the usual salute for the National Anthem is to let go the fly. 3. The candidate for All-Round Cords must be a First Class Guide anl should hold Ambulance or Siclc I Nurse or Emergency Helper; Swimj mer or Sigualler l)adges. In addition she must hold two other badgechcsen by herself, one at least of j whieh must be from the following | j outdoor badges: — Birdlover, Boatswain, Farmworker, Flower Lover, j Gardencr, Hiker, Horeswoman, Natu- ! ralist, Pathfinder, Pioneer, ff-tar-lover, Woodman. Who will be the first Guide in our [ district to wear All-Round Cords? | j Quiz No. 1H. I 1. Wliat is the Guide sign? When | j do we ■ use it ? j j 2. Why do we always keep our | i Guide badges shining- brightly, both j j back and front? ; j 3. Who wears one white stripe on j her left uniform pocket? Who wears I two? I Good hikjing! CAMPER. Onlj' a Iittle space this week, Browmies, so here is a little more of — MANU'S ADVENTURES. Svviftly down from the sunny „ heights dropped a green flash as Manu hurried to find his new friend. His bright ejTes searched here and there, I looking' for her bright wings, which somehow secmed to make hirn feel happy. There was no sign of the blue and gold which he longed to see, and Manu began to grow anxious. Sup- | pose she had been -caught? What would these children do 'to her? At last he caught sight of her, resting among some bright cornfiowers below the window from which he had just escaped. Manu called to her. She waved one of her wings but Jid not move. The young bird glaneed warily about, then, as no-one was in sight, lie flew to her to find that she was safe, but resting after her efforts to rescue him. He perched nearby and wondered what he should say .'How could he thank such a lovely, dainty thing as this bright butterfiy for risking her life for him? The more he thought, the more difficult it seemed, but at least he hung his head and said, "I have been selnsh ' and envious. I have thought too mueh of mj^seif and so got others into trouble. I am sorry. And thank you cver so mueh for your clever plan." It was out now and he felt mueh felieved as he sat waiting for his rescuer to speak. "It was not all my plan," replied the butterfiy in her beautifully musical voiee, "but it was made by all the little creatures out here in the garden, when they saw that you were sorry and had given up envying ail sorts of impossible things to make yourself handsome. All your friends sent me to help you and have given me a task to do for 3rou." "Who are all these friends?" asked Manu, surprised. "I shall take you to see them and meet them all as soon as I have rested a little more," answered the pretty creature.