NEW LEADER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 303, 30 September 1940, Page 4

NEW LEADER.

SALVATION ARMY SECRETARY. VISIT TO ASHBURTON. Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Ebbs, who has been recently appointed chief secretary’ for the Salvation Army in New Zealand with Mrs Ebbs, will visit Ashburton to-morrow and address a public meeting in the evening. -Among those accompanying Air and Airs Ebbs will be Brigadier and Airs C. Gray, Lieutenant-Colonel S. Smith, and Alajor I'M. Alarshall. The new chief secretary has had a widely’ varied career, having served with distinction in capacities ranging from Corps Commanding Officer to member of the first High Council of the International Salvation Army.

He filled field and staff appointments in England before his transfer to France, where he took charge of the Paris-Nord Division. Then followed some years in Belgium, where he was the aide de camp to the Territorial Commander, and five other difficult but progressive years in Italy as territorial leader. Transferred to' the United States in 1929, he commanded the Metropolitan and Hudson River Divisions and, later, for nearly four years, the Western Pennsylvania Division, with headquarters at Pittsburg. Ho was a director of the Rotary Club of Pittsburg and the Federation of Social Agencies of Pittsburg and Allegheny County. Colonel Ebbs is a forceful ? speaker and energetjc leader.