Girl-Guiding Forbidden
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at Mangaia
i CCORDING to advice from \ Mangaia, Lower Cooks, in early December, the native astor of the LMS Church there lused a sensation by announcing om the pulpit that parents who srmitted their daughters to join remain in the Girl Guide move ment would be expelled from the lurch.
The pastor is reported to have eclared that the girls must be ilisted in the Girls’ Life Brigade they wished to join any such ovement. The Life Brigade is mfined to members of the Con •egational Church, of which the MS is a branch.
The Girl Guide movement was tablished in the Cook Islands >out 20 years ago.
A number of parents rose and ft the church immediately after ie announcement was made by the istor.
It is understood that the dispute ill not be finally settled until the (turn of the Rev. Mr. Murphy, ?ad of the LMS Church in Raro nga, at present on leave in Eng nd.
Mrs. K. T. Thorpe of Santo, New tebndes, arrived in Sydney in anuary to visit her parents