Girl Guide Movement
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Progresses On Mangaia
From Our Own Correspondent MANGAIA, April 7.
OUR local Girl Guides, who have been studying knot-tying, Guide Law, tracking, etc., for so many months since the inception of the movement on this island, have got their uniforms at last, and now parade in regulation blue, with the red GG necktie and badge. Mrs.
W. H. Ryan, wife of the Resident Agent, is guide-mistress of the Mangaia corps, and has been very successful in training the girls along the lines of the NZ‘ Guide organisation.
The Cl Guide movement makes every effort to be self-supporting, the Mangaia girls’ uniforms being purchased out of the proceeds from dances and entertainments held by the corps, and made locally.
The idea of a Girl Guide company was suggested by the Governor-General of
NZ when he visited Mangaia in 1948. He made the suggestion to Miss Telreapii Robati who was already a Guide.
The organisation was started in August, 1948 and has an enrolment of 80 girls.