PAPATOETOE GUIDES AND BROWNIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 209, 23 November 1927, Page 6

PAPATOETOE GUIDES AND BROWNIES

The Papatoetoe company of Girl ' Guides, under Captain D. Barton, paraded at the morning service of the Presbyterian Church, Papatoetoe, last Sunday, over 30 strong. They were accompanied by Brown Owl H. Bewes. in charge of about 20 Brownies. The Rev. T. H. Roseveare conducted the service and preached an appropriate sermon. GOOD HUNTING Lo, many moons has he been distant from the Wigwam camp tire. Many swift streams have eddied under his paddle blade, many strange lands have seen his coming and his going. The rising sun has climbed to his high throne from the sea, over mountains, above the whispering pines, and yet the wanderer has returned not. His bow lay ever ready -while he watched j on eithr side the dark forest, but ever his canoe was moving against the stream, for he had not accomplished that which was his task. ! Now, at last, the prow of his canoe ! is pointed toward the land he knows, j and with exultant song he guides his i portage across the last current, and ! draws nigh the ancient landing-place. I And there, in his frail bark, under the j skin of the whitest of white beavers, lies the fruit of liis journey. { —Beaver jdunter.

Camellias are a family of plants, so named because they were first brought to European notice by a Moravian Jesuit named Camellus, who collected the plants in the Philippine Islands. In China oil is squeezed from the seeds and used in place of olive oil, and the flowers of one variety are used for flavouring tea.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. —Voltaire. ’