Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954), Saturday 6 July 1929, page 18


LONE GUIDES OF STATE

'Meetings' Held by Correspondence

Miss Daphne Bowman, of Poltalloch Station, 20 miles from Tailem Bend, began her Girl Guiding career with the 1st Creveen School Company, Adelaide,

where she was first a Guide, and later a lieutenant. On leaving school she took no active part in the movement, but later, when Miss Mary Bowman (her sister, now Mrs. Trafford Cowan) resigned from the captaincy of the 1st Ashville Company, Miss Daphne Bowman joined the company as lieutenant.

Miss Bowman is organiser of Lone Guides in South Australia, and is captain of the South-Eastern Division Company. She has 21 Guides. Her work, which is carried on entirely by correspondence, clearly indicates her ingenuity and re-source. Monthly 'meetings' are held, and these take the form of long typewritten scripts

neatly illustrated for explanatory purposes by Miss Bowman herself. Such For Ship. — Commence at masts, then work sails and base. For Birds. — Begin at bottom left-hand corner and omit the beak. Then work beak, eyes, and feet. These designs can be left in outline and filled in the same color as background, or filled in with the natural colors, as desired. When all designs and proverbs are completed, fill in all spaces with the color chosen as background; generally a lighter shade than that used for designs. If designs are worked in light colors, the background should be dark.

Miss D. Bowman

branches of guiding as stalking and tracking, Nature observation, knot tying, and Guide laws are usually detailed fully to the girls of her company, and each point impressed upon their minds by some quaint tale or legend. The territory over which Miss Bowman is captain includes the entire South-East and Yorke's Peninsula. She has seve ral guiders to assist her, and these have either been Guides before or have trained through correspondence by her. Two of her more distant guiders are at Kingoonya, on the East-West railway line, and at Edillilie, Cummins, on Eyre's Peninsula. Last year Miss Bowman organised a camp for her Lone Guides some miles from Murray Bridge, at which eight girls from various parts of the State were present. At this time there were only 13 Lone Guides in South Australia, and this was the first camp held for their benefit. Another camp, which probably will consist of four tents of girls, will be held at Strathalbyn in August, upon the return of Miss Bowman. She is at present holidaying in Cairns, Queensland. The object of this camp is to train guiders, and to give the Guides some idea of how ordinary company meetings

are held, and to instruct them in things which they have found difficulty in learning through the post. There are 39 Lone Guides in the State, and eight lone guiders. In September, 1927, Miss Bowman was appointed organiser of this branch of girl guiding. During the visit of Miss A. M. Behrens, of England, to Australia, a training camp was held at Poltalloch, and Miss Bowman was enrolled as a Ranger. She was a member of the Poltalloch Ranger Company. Her Guide company at Ashville consisted of six Guides and one Brownie. Ashville is a tiny country town at the gates of Poltalloch Station.