GIRLS ON THE MARCH

Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 8 October 1952, Page 7

GIRLS ON THE MARCH

DISPLAY BY VISITING TEAMS Those who had never seen a welltrained. team of marching girls in action had an eye-opener on Sunday, September 28th. when teams from Mount Maunganui and Rotorua gave a display cn the Taupo Domain in the presence of a large and deeply interested attendance of spectators. The visit had been arranged by the Bay of Plenty Cen^re of the New Zealand piris Marching Assoeiation to give the local girls' marching teams and their parents and friends some idea of the standard of efficiency required for partieipation in competitions. The teams had arrived the previous day and had been billeted in various homes in Taupo. With them were Mr N. M. McMil^n, Cbief Judge of the Centre, and Mr R. E. C. Hampton (Hon. Sec.), instructor. The teams looked most attractive in their smart uniforms, and there was a snap about their discipline and response to commands, and splendid precision in the way 4liey kept in step, marched, wheeled, and halted to the whistle that testified to good solid training. The Mount | Maunganui team, in green and orange I were under their leader Jean Thomasen; the Royalettes, from Rotorua under Joyce Whitley. Their comimands were delivered crisply and with the authortatlve ring of an army sergeant major, The girls marched to band nrusic from a loud speaker relayed from a gramaphone. Explanatory remarks by Mr Hampton were of value to the spec'ators and to the Taupo girls now looking forward to appearing in uniform and giving a good account of themselves. As a final introductory itern the two teams merged and interspe^sed with a team of Taupo Gir.ls all marching in masse. Xt was a good show, and thq Taupo people were grateful for the court esy and instructional value of the visit.