GIRL PEACE SCOUTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9, 4 September 1912, Page 7

GIRL PEACE SCOUTS.

Miss Haysom, scoutmistress of iho Richmond (Auckland) Girl Peace Scouts, who recently paid a visit to Sydney and embraced the opportunity of enquiring into the working of the girl aid movement—a sister movement to the one with which she is connected—has written as follows to the honorary secretary of the Australian League of Girl Aids; “The work of your Girls Aids is practically the same as that of our Peace Scouts in New Zealand. Our movement at first met with considerable opposition, but it is now acknowledged as one of the most useful occupations for a girl’s leisure hours. An incident showing the value of the work occurred some wee ks ago in Auckland, when a peace scout was asked to summon a doctor to a child who was seriously cut. Before doing so, the girl examined the wound, and seeing its danger rendered first aid. The doctor, on being brought by the girl, stated that the child’s life had been saved through.! her knowledge, for had the wound been left longer the child would have hied to death before the doctor’s arrival. When in Sydney 1 suggested at your Board of Control meeting that correspondence should he exchanged between Australian and New Zealand girls. The suggestion was heartily approved by girls in your section, and my own girls will only be ton happy to start straight away. By this means the bond of Empire, the link which hinds us together, will he strengthened. New Zealand girls will become interested in Australian girls, and vice versa, and friendships will he formed that will. I hope, ho life-long.”