GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 6

GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Guide-Braves have carried off the honours in both the last essay and poetry competition, the results of which are announced to-day. Silver Heel has given us a brightly Imaginative study of a little cloud who recklessly cut himself adrift from his mother’s aprer. string. The work of this brave is fast becoming known in the Wigwam, and it will tie remembered that she won a special prize for her dainty conception of “The Birth of Guiding” in a competition held a short time ago. Silver Heet, who is attached to St. Fetch’s Company, Hamilton, has recently been visiting Auckland as the guest of the Devonport Guides. Sighing Wind, a New Plymouth pitrol leader, has won the poety section with her colourful fragment, “Blossoms.* In a recent short story competition, run in the Wigwam page, her ‘’Love Song’’ was awarded the prize. Sighing Wind has written many stories for children, and. under an assumed name, is fapt becoming known in New Zealand journals. Paddle Carver writes: **l know the new Guide-Brave, Silver Moon, very well. She is leader of of the Poppy Patrol, and belongs to oar company. “The Awataha Girl Guides, Northcote, intend holding a social evening in the parish hall on Wednesday, September 14.** Says Shimmering Pool, a New Brighton Guide-Brave: “Thank you very much for the notes on knotting and splicing. My brother, who is a scoutmaster, has claimed one, and my little sister the other. She is a guide in the Tui Patrol, and is thinking about following the trail. “Our company went for a paper chase among the sandhills last Saturday. We had a lovely time, and are looking forward to many more. "At our meeting last Tuesday a Guide from the School of Art Company joined up with us. “Yes, I go surfing in summer, and love diving into the big breakers just as they are bursting. “Before I close I must say how pleased I am that I have found my way along the trail, and that my name is now carved on the Totem Pole.” Bone Guide-Brave Red Star has been holding high court in her tepee: “Having misesd the trail last week, I turn with eager feet this week down the well-loved path to the Wigwam, and joyously await the lifting of the flap, that I may once again stand before my beloved chief. “Greetings, o great one! “The tepee of Red Star has resounded with much joy and laughter since list you heard from me. Bast Saturday week Miss Brown (Brown Owl, of the Devonport Brownies), accomparied by several Guides from the First Church and St. Peter’s companies, came to see me. Among them were Silver Heel, Blue-fringed Mocassin, Gliding Mocassin, and Wanika. We spent a very happy time with story, «ong, and competition, and for me the time passed ail too quicklv Since then they and others, including Blue Wing, ha\e been twice, the last time being on Wednesday of thois week. It is so nice for me to meet so many of the Braves of the Wigwam. Unfortunately, :n the midst *of all the fun on Wednesday night, I had to be hustled off to bed, much to my disgust. “Just afterwards v.he SUN arrived, and my father read the message of Sitting Bi;lJ. the Sioux, to me, and it cheered ire up very much. “Farewell for a space, o Kedfeather! Greeetings to all a tthe Wigwam.” Silver Moon writes: "Our track for last Saturday was spoiled by the rain, but all the same the major ty of the Guides arrived at the appointed place. “W • are going for a big track next Saturday, if the weather permits, so we are all locking forward to it. “The Awat.iha Girl Guides and Brownies attended the Methodist Ghurch on Sunday morning, and the Minister preached a most interesting sermon.” • * * Bittle New Beaf, of the Kakamai Company, writes: “I have been very busy lately making things for cur Guide bazaar, which is to be held soon. 1 was very pleased that Eyes of the Morning won the l ist pen-name competition, as I think her names are very beautiful indeed. "Four Takapuna Guides came to our place lr 3t Saturday, and we went up Mount Eden, but as it was raining we could not see much of the view. Some of us went on ahead, and left signs i" r the others: then they came to tea, fe ana we played games. I should like B them to join the Wigwam.” ■ And from Tvvinklefoot, a Palmerston ■ Brave, this tribute: ■ - tbe Girl Guides’ Corner. ■ .*«

Ir. was always an ambition of mine to become a Guide, but circumstances forbade, and I can only admire Guides and their work from a distance. There have been several companies formed in this town of late years. They look very nice in their triim and workmanlike uniform.’ Sitting Bull, the Sioux, has recently been studying the Totem Pole, and has woven a garland for Guide-Braves Silver Dove and Eyes of the Morning. —Redfeatlier.