GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 343, 2 May 1928, Page 6

GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Sun Cloud, of the First Cambridge Company, writes: —■

This month has been a very busy time for us all. We began it by holding a “shop” on April 4 to raise company funds, and £32 was raised.

On Saturday, April 14, we attended the fourth birthday party of St. Peter’s Company in Hamilton, and spent a very jolly evening with our friends there.

The following Saturday we held a field day, when the-out-door tests were passed by the younger girls, and interpatrol relays were held for the cup. On Anzac Hay, 37 Guides, together with the. Scouts and Brownies, joined in the parade to the Town Hall, and afterwards took part in the ceremony at the Cenotaph. On the last Saturday in the month our District Commissioner was in Cambridge for the purpose of enrolling our pack of Brownies, and the next day we paraded at the Presbyterian Church.

This month three recruits have been enrolled, while nine Second-Class and seven First-Class badges have been won, so we are feeling quite proud of our company.

Silver Heel forwards the following detailed account of the fourth birthday party of St. Peter’s Company, Hamilton:—•

“After tea the company formed the horse shoe with the visiting Guides lined up behind. Badges were presented and several girls were invested with leadership. The Commissioner then gave her address to the Guides.

Mrs. McNicol, a member of the committee, who has filled the position of camp mother four years running, was presented with a cut glass cruet set. as a token of the Guides’ appreciation. The two most interesting items of the evening were a dress parade and a whistling race. In the former, each patrol, armed with two newspapers aad some pins, dressed up one of their members.

The Brownies then performed the Sir Roger de Coverley, after which a dress parade took place. First place was awarded to Blue Wing (Elspeth McNicol), arrayed as a cowboy. Charlie Chaplin and Queen Elizabeth were also very good.

In the whistling race the Leaders stood at one end of the room with the Seconds facing them at the other. The former were then given a biscuit and a slip of paper. When the whistle blew they had to eat the biscuit, look at the paper, and then run to the Second and whistle to her the song written on it. When the Second guessed the correct song both had to run to the marker at the other end of the room.

To assist the programme two members of the Cambridge Company sang a duet, Frankton Guides gave a country dance, and Claudelands sansr a selection of camp songs.”