Australian Guides assist make new Australians
New Australians make keen Guides Every second Saturday at Woodside, the Girl Guide Movement is helping new Australians conquer their shyness and showing them the way to good citizenship. Many of the girls have been Guides and Brownies in their own country and so have a link with their new land. Others are learning the Guides lessons of good fellowship for the first time. At a recent meeting of the Woodside Guide company the only Guide uniforms were those worn by two Guiders. The three patrol leaders Irena, Genovaite and Lolita wore their colourful Latvian and Lithuanian costumes. Round them were girls, large and small, most of them with scarves tied round their heads and wearing long, woollen stockings. The plaits, braided across their hair and the tiny, hoop earrings distinguished them from Australian girls. Learning the signs Adelaide Guiders who visit Woodside to conduct these meetings were rather puzzled how to begin, because many of the chil...