GUIDE CAMP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 7

GUIDE CAMP

SPECIAL TRAINING FOR LEADERS. GATHERING AT TAUHERENIKAU. On January 16, approximately 120 young New Zealand women will go into eamp under canvas at Tauherenikau Racecourse, for a short period of training for services in time of National Emergency. The camp was originally planned to celebrate the Dominion’s Centenary, and arrangements were well in hand to give 600 Dominion and Overseas Guides an unforgettable holiday, when war was declared. ' Since then the camp has been reorganised on a more war-minded basis, with a view to training the older Guides and leaders of companies in services which will be useful to their country as well as to themselves, should they ever be called upon to play a more active part in serving their country in time of war. In England, the Guide training has proved a ready passport into any field of work. To everyone of the Women’s Auxiliary Services, Red Cross and A.R.P.. recruits who have had guide training are welcomed for their efficiency, adaptability and sense of discipline. Here in New Zealand almost all camps are regarded as a jollification for the young, and a time of discomfort and hard labour for everyone else. Guide camps are unique because in them, work and recreation are happily blended, and they have proved that it is possible to learn, and at the same time, enjoy learning.

Visitors’ Day at the Tauherenikau Camp will be Sunday, January 21. and a trip to the Exhibition has been planned.