GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 6

GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

The Cavel! Company held a bazaar at St. Andrew’s Hall, Epsom, last Saturday, which resulted in £53 being cleared. This company should be congratulated on the splendid organisation and untiring energy which crowned the venture with such success. * * * Basket-ball was the order of the day at Otahuhu on Saturday, when the Guides of the Manukau district held a tournament. In spite of the weather conditions some keen games were contested. The previous evening in the Public Hall, the Manurewa Girl Guides celebrated their third birthday. * * * Morning Messenger, a new GuideBrave, who belongs to St. Francis Company, writes:—“l hope to get my second class soon, but we have not a Lieutenant, so Captain has nq time for testing at present. I should also like to win my astronomer’s, gardener’s, cooks and ambulance badges after that. I suppose you know that the St. Francis Company is to have a Visitors’ Evening in September. A new patrol, named the Blue Tit, has been formed. This is so that when new girls join they will not form a patrol almost by themselves. We are very fortunate in having a girl from a company in Wellington for leader. She has been a Guide for two years, and also leader before. ' Our patrol, of which I am second, won the inspection ribbon, and we hope to win it again so as to be able to carry the colours at the Visitors’ Evening. Our patrol leader is Star Dust, whose letter I noticed in the Wigwam page recently.” • * * Blue-fringed Moccasin, of St. Peter’s Company. Hamilton, writes an inter.esting letter: “Last Saturday night, August 13. our Guide Company held an evening, and our new Brownie Pack was enrolled. Various camp prizes were given out and the Company Cup, which is presented every six months, changed hiinds from the Honesty Patrol, of which Silver Heel is a member, to the Fuchsia. Badges were then presented and a lieutenant and several recruits enrolled. “Before she went on her world tour last year, our president, Mrs. Valder, promised to bring home three prizes—one for the best Guide in camp, the winner gaining the possible marks, one for the best tenderfoot paper on second class work, and one for the best second class paper. Silver Heel won the last with 99 per cent. The prizes were purses, one from London, one from Paris, and one from Naples. Silver Heel was given the London one. Silver Hfeel then presented Mrs. Seddon, our captain, with a fountain pen and the smallest Brownie gave her a bouquet of violets. The guides entertained the visitors with several competitions on Guide work. One of the items was a violin solo by Wanika. Next Friday the company is going to the first birthday party of the Claudelands’ Guides. * * * Silver Heel has written a spirited little poem for the Guides’ Corner: ‘•The wish of every Guide, Is oft to do or dare. To save someone from drowning, Or track a burglar to his lair; To perform some feat of First Aid. And win a doctor’s praise, To justify her uniform By these and other ways. But, Guides, your chance is small. For great acts though you sigh, Little things still matter most, Although you aim so hjgh, A girl may prove resourceful, When given one grand chance, Blit simple things must always count, In thought and word and glance, Therefore Guides, take heart, Do that which first appears; TJie task that crowns a lifetime, May not occur for years. Difficulties lie all around, 'and these you must surmount; Give them a try, never say die— It’s the little things that count!” * * * ’iNevv' Guide-Braves this week are Morning Messenger, Little Blue Bird, Little Forest Flower (sister to Red Star), and Little Brown Moccasin, a Ranger in the First Devonport Company. —REDFEATHER.