SALVATION ARMY IN N.Z.
NEW COMMANDER CHOSEN (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. Colonel Robert Hoggard, at present second-in-command of the Salvation Army in the Central Territory of the United States, has been appointed by General Albert Orsborn to succeed Commissioner R. Astbury as Commander of the Salvation Army in New Zealand. Colonel Hoggard is promoted to the rank of lieutenant-com-missioner. He is-* son of Commissioner Robert Hoggard, who commanded the Salvation Army in New Zealand from 1922 to 1926. He became an officer from Shiba, Tokio, in 1912, when his father commanded in Japan. He will take office in a building which his father opened just before he left New Zealand.
It is not known when Commissioner Hoggard and Mrs Hoggard will arrive in New Zealand.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 256, 16 August 1950, Page 5
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