GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1037, 30 July 1930, Page 14

GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Rainbow Shell reports for the Milord Company: “The badges entered for this month lave been the Domestic Service, for vhich nine of our compapy entered, ind the Homemaker’s. Only three went for this, but this week the Child Nurse examination will be held and three more are entering:. On the afternoon of Saturday, July 12, the three members who are entering from our company went to Karitane Home to take notes for the badge. First we were taken from room to room, to be shown babies in their cots, and their respective clothes-baskets and bottles, together with feeding timetables, all of which were very interesting to child nurse enthusiasts. in the afternoon we were shown how to bath and dress a baby and how to put it to bed. The nurses then spoke to us in turn, first of the i # rojects of the Plunket Society and then of the daily routine of a baby’s life and the rules of health, which are carried out in this routine. We are to be examined with the rest of the North Shore Guides in all these things next Saturday.” • « « Singing River, of the Te Awamutu Company, writes! “On June 27 the company met as usual in the Parish Hall, with a good attendance, 31 Guides being present. Two new girls were enrolled. As it was a very cold evening the girls enjoyed a polka. Second-class work and games followed. The meeting closed with horse-shoo formation, camp-fire songs, the Guide chant and ‘Taps.’ “July 4, the first meeting of the month, was corner night, and the red ribbon for the best corner was won by the Kingfisher patrol. “After a short company meeting, a large public meeting, organised by the Guiders and others, was held, to do honour to our late secretary and expresident, Mrs. W. H. Wood, who is leaving To Awamutu to take up a Government position in Wellington. The Guides presented her with a purse in which was a wad of notes from other local organisations, of which Mrs. Wood had been an active member and worker. “On July 11 the meeting was held in the Presbyterian Hall. A second class competition was held, and an observation game, which was won by the Thrush and Kingfisher patrols, was much enjoyed by all. “A short examination in part of the fourth section of the Second Class work was held on July 18. The ribbons for the month were presented as follow: —Red ribbon, Kingfisher patrol: White ribbons (for work), Thrush, Fantail and Robin patrols.” • «* * Golden Butterfly reports for the Second Whangarei Company: “We have had very jolly meetings lately. At our first meeting of this month two new Guides attended. We spent t*his meeting playing games, working on our patrol corners and teaching the new recruits their Tenderfoot test. Some passes were gained in the Second Class badges. “Our next meeting was Ceremonial Day. Our Commissioner enrolled one new recruit, and presented some of the Guides with Second Class badges, two with Athlete’s, one with Swimmers’s and three with their Laundress’s badges. Two Brownies attended this meeting and, as there are other Brownies who have passed their tests, they are to ‘fly up’ next meeting. “At our next meeting we decided to hold enrolment again, so that the new recruits could pass their tests and be enrolled. As we have so many new members and are expecting several more next week, we divided up into four patrols. The new patrol chose the name of ‘Blackbird.* Two visiting Guides from Kaikohe attended this meeting, accompanied by Mrs. Wright, our Commissioner, who showed them through our patrol corners. “Our next meeting will be Ceremonial Day, and we are eagerly looking forward to the presentation of badges.**