Minutes, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs and other records

Correspondence inward and outward and duplicate letterbooks, 1956-1974 (18 files, 5 vols).
Annual reports, 1957-1974 (1 file).
Proficiency Badge booklets and receipt books, 1957-1974 (15 items).
Company and Pack Register, 1956-1970 (2 vols).
Miscellaneous records, certificates, cards, pamphlets, camping booklets, posters, rosters, song booklets and handbooks, 1956-1974 (c250 items).
Newspaper clippings relating to camps and certificates, 1960s-1970s (1 file).

Historical note:
The 1st Ajana Brownie Pack, WA, commenced activities in October 1956. In April 1959 the 1st Ajana Girl Guide Company was formed with Jessie May Sutherland as Captain. Because of distance, the functions of the local association were undertaken by the Ajana Branch of the Country Women's Association and instead of the usual weekly meetings, Guides and Brownies met in the Binnu or Ajana halls, the Golf Club or out of doors, before or after church services, or while their parents played golf or tennis.
The 1st Ajana Girl Guide Company ceased to operate in 1976 and the 1st Ajana Brownie Pack in 1979.

Photographs mounted for exhibitions, 1926-1988 (20 boards).
Minutes of the ACT Local Association, 18 Dec. 1930-20 Aug. 1943 (1 vol.).
Official diary of territorial commissioner Patricia Tillyard, 1935-1936, 1938-1943 (1 vol.).
Collected records of guide and brownie units, 1936-1963 (7 bundles).
Log book of First Canberra Ranger Unit, Aug. 1944 (1 vol.).
Log book of Third NSW Lone Guides Unit which became the 1st ACT Lone Guide Unit from Dec. 1945, kept by Lucy Wheatley, 1944-1947 (1 vol.).
Notebook written by Lucy Wheatley about camping and camps, 1946-1949 (2 vols).
Collected records of ranger units, 1947-1966 (1 small box).
Records of the Mount Majura Guide District, 1957-1983 (1 bundle).
Notes, documents and photographs, 1961-1987 (1 bundle).
Correspondence, finance documents, training documents, historical notes, 1964-1985 (3 boxes).
Master set of local journal, Guiders Gas, 1976-1988 (1 bundle).
Programs for special occasions, 1977-1988 (5 items).

Historical note:
The Girl Guides Association began in Canberra with the formation of a lone company in 1927 under New South Wales headquarters. The company was replaced by a local association in December 1930 which became a district of New South Wales in 1931 with Mrs C.S. Daley as district commissioner. The ACT Division, formed in 1935, was commanded by Patricia Tillyard as divisional commissioner until 1943. Region 14 (Australian Capital Territory and the Southern Tablelands) was formed in June 1968 and divided in 1975 into three autonomous zones which work through region headquarters to New South Wales headquarters.

Annual reports of state bodies; New South Wales, 1941-1987; Victoria, 1957-1987; Queensland, 1947-1987; South Australia, 1982-1987; Western Australia, 1967-1987; Tasmania, 1924-1987 (incomplete).
Photographs, 1924-1987 (1 filing cabinet drawer).
Operational records, 1924-1987.
Publications including histories, handbooks, diaries, rules, magazines, 1924-1987.
Awards file, 1924-1987.
Australian appointments file, 1926-1987.
Minutes of federal council meetings, 1926-1965.
Profiles of persons associated with the guiding movement, c1930-1987.
Newspaper cuttings, 1934-1987 (4 vols).
Policy files, c1950-1987.
Annual reports of the federal body, 1961-1987.
Minutes of the Australian executive meetings, 1962-1987.
Publications, circulars, 1964-1987.
Minutes of Australian council meetings, 1966-1972.
Minutes of the Australian training committee, 1969-1987.
Minutes of the Australian sections committee, 1970-1987.
Minutes of the Australian scout/guides consultative committee, 1973-1985.
Deed of incorporation and of the constitution, 1980.
Minutes of the annual general meetings, 1980-1987.
Publication, Guiding in Australia, 1980-1987.
Minutes of the Australian planning and development committee, 1981-1982.
Minutes of the procedures committee, 1984-1987.
Minutes of the executive of the Australian council for guiding, 1986-1987

Newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia 1926-1976 (1 album).

Minute and attendance books, 1926-1976 (20 vols).

Historical note:
Janet Cornes joined the Gympie branch of the Girl Guides Association in 1926, eventually attaining a commissioned rank. In 1947, Janet was appointed as District Commissioner for the Gympie, Maryborough, Bundaberg districts and between 1963 and 1967 served as Divisional Commissioner for South-east Queensland. In 1963, Janet was awarded the Oak Leaf Medal for meritorious service to the Girl Guides Association and was a member of the Trefoil Guide team 1967-1986.

Scrapbooks of newsclippings relating to Guide activities, including an account of the public meeting to form the Association, 1915-1980s (1 box).
Letter signed by Robert Baden-Powell, referring to approval of the constitution for the Western Australian Association, 1919 (1 item).
Miscellaneous photograph albums relating to Guide activities, camps, buildings, people, 1920s-1980s (1 box).
Panoramic photograph of Guide and Scout rally at Brennan Park, Perth, for the visit of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, 1931 (1 large framed photograph).
Visitors' book for the Association's headquarters, 1936-1970s (3 bks).
Register of personnel in Western Australia, 1930s (1 bk).
Miscellaneous publications relating to Guiding, including teaching materials, training and development handbooks, test requirements, 1930s-1970s (1 box).
Miscellaneous log books from various Guide units, including articles, reports and newsclippings, relating to their activities, 1930s-1960s (4 bks).
Minutes of State Executive meetings, 1954-1959 (1 vol.).
Miscellaneous records relating to the building of the Paxwold Training Centre and Camp Site, including photographs, plans, minutes of the Building Committee meetings, newsclippings, 1950s-1980s (1 box). Miscellaneous records relating to the activities of the Air Ranger Guides, 1965 (1 file).
Newsletters, Commissioner's News, 1969-1971 (1 file).
Miscellaneous programs, brochures, souvenir programs of special events, handbills, 1960s-1980s (1 small box).
Scrapbook compiled for the State Commissioner's Challenge, on the subject of the history of the Girl Guide Movement in Western Australia, 1979 (1 large album).

Adelaide, SA. Members of the Girl Guides Association (South Australia) working in the depot during their thrift campaign to raise funds for organisations such as the Red Cross. Left to right: back row: Lady Muriel Barclay Harvey (wife of the Governor of South Australia), Mrs Herbert Rymill (State Chief Commissioner), Rita Webb, Rosemary Liddell-Grainger (daughter of the Governor's wife ), Barbara Godson; front row: Fairley Grove, May Douglas, Mrs Sydney Ayres, Mrs Julian Ayres, Miss Elkin, Miss A. Morphett (secretary of the thrift drive), Mrs Lance Lewis (originator of the thrift drive), Mrs Hugh Davidson (in charge of the thrift depot and sales).

Log book, accounts, Court of Honour, minutes

Artefacts & folder, receipt, training & cash books etc

Guide log book.

Interviewed by W. Kay in 1989. Discusses her ifetime involvement with the Girl Guides (she joined in 1932) especially with guides in the Swanbourne area.

Interviewed by Gwen Mellowship in 1990. Discusses her involvement with girl guides spiritual beliefs, work with John Wheeldon.

Interviewed by Margaret Luckett in 1989. Moore was born at Bonnie Vale via Coolgardie. She discusses her guiding experiences, marriage and later life.

Interviewed by Wyn Kay in 1989. Mellowship discusses her life long involvement in the Girl Guide Movement
Transcript available.

Interviewed by Win Kay, in 1992. McLean discusses her involvement in the Girl Guide Movement
Transcript (typescript, c 10 p.) available.

Interviewed by Wyn Kay in 1990. Discusses her lifelong involvement with Girl Guides; Paxwold, Rangers, overseas conferences, Outreach etc.

Interviewed by Wyn Kay in 1989. Brockway discusses her lifelong involvement in the Girl Guide Movement.

Interviewed by G. Loughton in 1989. Cooper joined the South Fremantle girl guides 1931, worked with Brownie as adviser through the school of the air system and lone Brownie system. Synopsis (typescript, 2 p.)

Interviewed by W. Kay, in 1898. Discusses her lifetime involvement with Girl Guides, particularly trips to the North-West.

Interviewed by Wyn Kay in 1990. McGregor discusses her involvement in the Girl Guide Movement.
Transcript (typescript, 20 p.) available.

Interview conducted by 1st Huntingdale Guides, 1987. Discusses her involvement with girl guides and rangers.

Interviewed by F. Beech in 1976 about the first Kendenup Guides and first Kendenup Brownie pack.

File on Bedford Park Scout Hall (1960); oral history interviews (1991)

Detailed listing available in repository (MN 1796)

Papers of G.W. Goyder and family, comprising notebook and press cuttings about railway matters; notebook of J.H. Goyder while at Frome Downs and Netley Stations; reminiscences of Edwin Mitchell Smith, nephew of G.W. Goyder; correspondence; diploma from Roseworthy Agricultural College, papers of Mrs Mary Anne Goyder as Girl Guides Commissioner, scrapbook of material relating to G.W. Goyder, collected by his granddaughter Margaret Goyder Kerr and photographs.

Series list available at the Mortlock Library Reference Desk.

Papers of Mrs Grace (Gretta) Margaret Lewis, wife of Major Lancelot Lewis, comprising correspondence, papers on various topics, photographs, newspaper cuttings, diaries, notebooks, minutes of the Women's Defence Services 1939-1940, and corespondence and newspaper cuttings on National Flower Day.
Lewis was a member of Girl Guides Association of South Australia (1921-1968), and organised the Girl Guides Thrift Campaign during WWII.

Series list available at the Mortlock Library Reference Desk.

A series of interviews with women who have been involved with the Guides movement in South Australia. The project was organised by Sally Hopton, Archivist for Guides SA and has two parts; a series of interviews conducted in 2001 by Sally Hopton and a retrospective collection of recordings featuring interviews related to guiding in South Australia conducted during the 1980s and 90s.
Interviewers: Sally Hopton, June Rees, Jeff Medwell, Peggy Buttfield and Joyce Raggatt.
Interviewers' notes, interview logs and associated material available for some interviews (28 pages).

Films and sound recordings relating to the Girl Guides movement in South Australia.

Adelaide Lyceum Club Oral History

Aileen Bond was born in 1898, was educated at St Peter's Girls' School and did law at Adelaide University. Joined the Lyceum Club when it formed in 1922. In 1924 she married John Leslie Bond who was a minister and they moved around South Asutralia starting at Berri. Here her first child died at only a few months. Became involved with the Guides. World War II her husband enlisted and went to New Guinea and she and the four children lived at Brighton. After the war they lived at Clare and Victory Harbour then her husband was given an administrative job and became in turn an Archdeacon and then a Cannon. After his death Aileen moved to Toorak Gardens, was involved with the Lyceum Club and at 84 was studying Italian at Flinders University.

Biographical outline (2 pages)

Adelaide Lyceum Club Oral History

Dr Elma Sandford Morgan was born in 1890 in North Adelaide and brought up in a Baptist household. Attended Miss Martin's school. At 14 her family sailed to Europe amd Elma went to Cheltenham's Ladies College for a year as a boarder. She returned to Adelaide in 1905. She studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium under Herr Reimann. She travelled with her family around Australia and in Queensland she met a doctor who suggested she do medicine. 1910 studied medicine at Sydney University. Studied for three years, then went with her family on a trip from China across the Siberian railway to Moscow. She graduated in 1917. She worked in Australia, London and at the Women's Mission Hospital at Bewanee in the Punjab. Then in 1920 went to a hospital in Bagdad. Here she married Captain Harry Morgan and their daughter Rosemary was born in 1922. Son Gavin was born in 1925. Eventually settled in Sydney and she worked at the Rachel Forster Hospital. 1928 appointed Assistant to the Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Department, and in 1929 first woman to become Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Service. She was a district commissioner in the Girl Guides and a representative to the Australian Federation of University Women. Moved to South Australia as a Health Officer with the Mothers and Babies Association and helped set up Torrens House, a mothercraft training centre. During World War II joined the RAAN as a medical officer, was working in general practice, and for two years organised the Health Services of South Asutralia as the only woman member of the Parliamentary Commission. After the war she visited Europe and on return obtained a locum tenens as neoplasm registrar to the Anti-Cancer Foundation. She was appointed by the University of Adelaide to the Radio Therapy Department where she worked for eleven years. Retired in 1964 and then worked at the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service until she was 80 years old. During 1966-68 she attended the Medical Women's International Association conferences in Rochester and Vienna and became president of the Australian Medical Women's Association to work against bias according to sex and equal treatment of women doctors. Her main interest was preventative medicine and public health.

Biographical outline (3 pages)

Adelaide Lyceum Club Oral History

Elsie Haselgrove talks about her childhood in Glenelg, her family, Kangaroo Island, Proclamation Day and the Glenelg jetty, schooling at Hadleigh College and St Peter's Girls School, studying at Adelaide University, father's death, the Depression, joining the Lyceum Club, inter-varsity hockey team, studying Geology under Douglas Mawson, English with Professor Strang and Anatomy with Professor Wood Jones, gained her diploma in 1926, married and moved to Renmark, five children, became president of the Guides' Association, Renmark community, husband's move from Angove Winery to Mildara Wines, moving to Adelaide for children's schooling, became Divisional Commissioner in the Guides, buying the Guides own property in Gawler Place, involvement in the South Australian Hockey Association, and the Lyceum Club

Biographical outline (6 pages)

Recorded on 18 May 1994. 2 cassette tapes, 1 hour 51 minutes. Full transcript available (35 pages).

Lorna Esme Adams, nee Eames, was born in Torrensville, South Australia. She trained at the Adelaide Teachers' College and met her future husband after taking up her second teaching post at Black Hill in 1942. In 1945 they began dairy farming at Black Hill, moving to Paracombe three years later. After their infant son died of cystic fibrosis and their older boy was also diagnosed, they decided to settle at Ponde for the drier climate. Their second son died in 1955. Lorna has had three enduring interests; the Girl Guides movement and the Country Women's Association, both of which she has represented at State level, and the Holstein-Fresian dairy cattle stud that she and her husband developed. Lorna and her husband Jack's surviving daughter has had nine children.

Letters received by Ellie Wemyss from friends and colleagues, many in response to letters and poems sent to them by Ellie. Includes letters from Catherine Helen Spence, Ada Muecke, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Edison, Alfred Deakin, Edette M. Fox (with photograph and memorial card for Charles Leonard Fox) and Amy Johnson. Also includes a series of correspondence (1912-1919) relating to Ellie Wemyss' role as Honorary State Secretary of the Girl Guides and the 'regrettable dissension which has arisen among the Executive of the Girl Guides' Association'.

Records of Miss Marion Sinclair consisting of her autobiography (original and typescript copy), original music scores, poetry, papers relating to the Girl Guides, Y.W.C.A., various schools and colleges, family papers, photographs, correspondence and miscellanea. Includes literary manuscripts.

Series list available at the Mortlock Library Reference Desk.

Collection of souvenir programmes, newspaper cuttings and other miscellany relating to Girl Guides and other interests.

The Adelaide Trefoil Guild began in February 1945 and was the first registered in Australia. The Guild is affiliated with the Girl Guides Association of Australia and its main objectives are fellowship and the continued support of guiding. The recording features three of the longest serving members of the Adelaide Trefoil Guild reminiscing about its activities.
Recorded on 19 March 1990 .
Outline of recording and information leaflet (3 pages).

Curtis-Otter speaks of her involvement with the Girl Guide movement in Australia and Lady Baden-Powell ; joining the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service and writing their official history ; she recalls her childhood and schooling and speaks of her career in journalism.
Transcript available (29 p.)

Manuscripts, Pictures

Publication Details [Sydney] : Richard Mitchell Productions for the Girl Guides Association, [1975?]
Physical Description 1 film reel (23 min.) : sd., col. ; 16 mm.
Summary Note Shows a wide range of guiding activities stressing the changed image of guiding and how it has adapted to modern ideas.