GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 7

GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

The Girl Guides’ Headquarters are now located at th© Bank, of New South Wales Buildings at th© corner of Upper Queen Street and Karangahapo Road, a removal from the Sunday School Union Buildings havin ? taken place this week. A number of companies attended church parade on Armistice pay, in some instances- combining with the Boy Scouts. The annual meeting of the Auckland Province Girl Guides’ Association will be held at the Y.W.C.A. on the evening of Thursday, November 15, commencing at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Tolhurst and the divisional commissioners will attend and will address the meeting on the work accomplished. In addition. Archbishop Averill and somo of the leading citizens have been asked to speak. The Dominion Conference will be held during the following week and the xaJly in the Domain on November 24 The Awataha Girl Guides intend holding a garden party on December S at the residence of Mrs. Hutchison, Marama Terrace. Birkenhead. Commissioner Croll. of Auckland, paid an unexpected visit to the Russell Company on the night of Friday, November 9. Captain Holt greeted the commissioner, who then inspected the Guides, congratulating Captain Holt on attaining her warrant and also on the progress the girls had made. The commissioner was delighted with the company’s colours, which were presented bv Mrs. F. P. Dod. an old resident of Russell. Most of the girls have obtained their second-class badges and are shortly to be examined for the child nurse badge. Waving Plume, of the Manurewa Company, reports under date November 10: “Our company gave a fireworks display on Guy Fawkes Night. Friends and Guides enjoyed the fun very much. Light refreshments were handed round before the gathering broke up. “Wo are very busy just now preparing for the rally, and yesterday we went to St. Cuthbert College grounds for the final instructions. Next Satur-, day we are commencing our first game of cricket.” Red Star. Lone Guide of St. Peter’s Company, Hamilton, has been seeing pictures in the fire: “From within my tepee I address you, for outside, a cold, moaning wind is driving grey clouds across the sky, but, inside where I sit, a rosy fire is curling and crackling cheerily, and spirals of blue smoke are slowly ascending from between the logs. I gaz© into the fire and 10, a great wigwam has risen there with a mighty Totem Pole, scarred with countless names. A familiar path running past

th© shimmering Lake of Many Waters leads to where the flap of the "W igwam stands ever open. Then the whole has crumbled and a mighty forest or a turreted castle has risen in its stead. “Once again my tepee is a bower of loveliness, for there are sweet peas, pinks, snap-dragons, geraniums and several big bowls of roses in it to-day. Summer has touched the earth and it has become a garden. I think that cream roses are Daintiness, white ones Purity, and queens in their own right, but red roses are made for holding secrets in their velvety, softly-curving hearts. “The Sun God has burst through his enveloping mantle of grey cloud, the trees are beckoning with their long green arms to me, and a blackbird on th© fence is telling me to ‘Come and see. Come and see.’ ”