SALVATION ARMY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 12

SALVATION ARMY.

INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY ARRIVES. TO ATTEND ANNUAL CONGRESSES. On a hurried visit to New Zealand and Australia, Commissioner H. Mapp, international secretary of the Salvation Army, arrived by the Niagara yesterday from Vancouver. Commissioner Mapp has come from International Headquarters, London, to represent General Booth at the annual congresses to be held ill Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Wellington. While journeying through the

United States and Canada he visited the headquarters at New York, Chicago, Toronto and Winnipeg and conferred with the leading officers. He said that he had obtained lavourable reports concerning the work in America, and remarked that plans were being prepared for new national headquarters at New York, and a home for business girls. The schcme would cost 2,500,000 dollars. Commissioner Evangeline Booth, sister of General Bramwell Booth, in the course of her work as head of the Salvation Army in the United States, had received a contribution of 500,000 dollars towards the building programme. "We are planning to do greater immigration work in Canada," continued Commissioner Mapp, "especially with boys and domestics as well as farm hands." He added that in the last 30 years the failures in connection with that part- of the Salvation Army activities had been less than one per cent. To Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, about 1000 were sent out every year, New Zealand's quota being between 100 and J 50. Referring to his present visit the Com-1 missioner said that four public meetings would be held at Wellington at the beginning of June, and he would person- j ally be present. He "would also confer! nrivately with officers. From reports l he had received of the work in New Zealand he believed that the movement was advancing under the capable leadership of Commissioner James Hav.

On .June 19 he will leave Wellington by the Maunganui for San Francisco en route to" London, and about the middle of September will start out 011 a tour of South East and South West Africa.