Pax Ting

Luton Girls Start For Hungary On Sunday

LOCAL RANGERS FOR INTERNATIONAL CAMP

TWO Luton girls are to-day excitedly packing up kit for their first trip abroad.

They are Miss Lesley Ball, of 3, Marlborough-road, and Miss Joyce Holden, of 30, Denbigh-road, the Luton girls chosen to represent Bedfordshire at the International Guide Camp to be held in Hungary from July 25 until August 7.

20 Miles From Budapest

Godollo, twenty miles outside Budapest, is the site of the camp, and the girls' journey will be from Victoria, via Dover, Ostend, Cologne to Budapest.

It was only this week that they received official confirmation from the Executive Committee of the Guides' Association that international events would not cause the postponement of the camp.

In addition to one hundred Guides and Rangers from this country, girls will attend the Camp from France, Belgium and Switzerland, and the British colonies.

Lesley, who is nineteen, is a member of the 17th Luton Rangers Company, connected with St. Andrew's Church. She is the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Ball, and was educated at Luton High School.

At present employed at the Luton Motor Company, Dunstable-road, Lesley, after her holiday is taking a secretarial post at the Luton Technical College.

Brownie At Seven

Lesley first became a Guide of the Luton 15th Company six years ago yesterday. To-day Guiding takes most of her spare time, though she is a keen sports girl, plays tennis, hockey, and swims. She is also a good pianist.

Lesley is looking forward to the Camp especially for the opportunity it will provide of meeting girls of other countries.

One of Lesley's best friends is Miss Betty Dickson, who last year was chosen to represent the county at the international camp in Lithuania.

Miss Joyce Holden is eighteen years old, and the eldest of Mr. and Mrs. W. Holden's three daughters. A ranger of the 20th Luton Company (Waller-street), Joyce has been in the Guide movement since the age of seven, when she became a Brownie in Miss Warland's Christ Church pack. Later she was a 17th Luton Guide.

Brownies are her special interest to-day, and she is Lieutenant of her Company's pack, and is assisting in the formation of a new pack at Stopsley.

Like Lesley, she is a keen sports girl, and plays tennis and hockey.

She is employed as a comptometer operator at Davis Gas Co., Ltd.

Timetable