BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON
FOR MISB BADEN-POWELL A luncheon of friendship was given Miss Baden-Powell, sister of Lord •Baden-Powell, and founder of the Girl Guides, by BO of her personal friends at the Ladies' Carlton Club, says a London exchange, to mark her 80lh birthday. Mrs James Pennethorne. of Napier. New Zealand, who, assisted by Miss Godson, organised the function, presented her with a gold wristlet watch on behalf of those present. Miss Lalla Miller, from Napier, gave her a trinket box of New Zealand wood. She also rN’oiveii many individual gifts, including a water-colour picture of the lyre bird, from Australian Girl Guides, and a metal bowl from Count Zeppelin, with whom she used to fly in the early days of aviation. Lord Charnwood, who presided, said that -Miss Baden-Powell’s secret of perpetual youth was the outdoor life she led with the Girl Guides, and the intense interest she took in everything.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 3
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151BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 3
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