WAIKATO RALLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 355, 16 May 1928, Page 6

WAIKATO RALLY

The Waikato Guides held their first rally on Saturday, May 12, in the High School grounds at Hamilton, when Guides from Te Kuiti, Paeroa, Te Awamutu, Matamata, Morrinsville, Cambridge. Claudelands, and Hamilton were present. At 3 p.m. the district commissioner. Dr. Buckley Turkington, and the North Waikato commissioner, Miss McCormac, arrived, and immediately the business of the afternoon began. The Te Awamutu Guides signalled a welcome, which followed by the march past. The Hamilton Brownies •then performed a Welsh dance, proceeding which Cambridge gave an ambulance demonstration and Te Kuiti showed the various ways in which a pole could be utilised. Paeroa gave a skilled exhibition of Indian club drill, and then a competition took place between teams of eight, on. secondclass J w’ork. Matamata illustrated the legends of the Union Jack, following which Morrinsville gave a demonstration of fancy marching. All the Guides then danced the Sir Roger and Jenny Pluck Pairs. The last item, consisting of a series of tableaux illustrating the Guide laws, represented by some great personage in the past and By Guides in the present, was rendered by the Ngaruawahia, Claudelands, Frankton. and Hamilton companies. Then, gathered round a mock camp fire, all the Guides sang Taps and the National Anthem. On Suhday an impressive Guide service was held in one of th© theatres. The success of the rally is due to the unfailing enthusiasm of the district captain. Miss Burgin, under whose capable direction it took place. —Silver Heel (Daphne Dymock, St. Peter’s Company, Hamilton).