CHURCH ARMY.
CAMPAIGN IN NEW ZEALAND. i" TEAM COMES FROM ENGLAND. i ■ I *(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)' WELLINGTON, Monday. j£n arrival by the liner Remuera. from London to-day was Captain S. R. Banyard, of the Church Army, an evangelistic organisation affiliated to the Church of England, who has come to New Zealand for the purpose of organising and conducting a campaign here. He will be joined by ten more, members of themovement, eight men and two women, who are on board the Rangitiki, now on the way to New Zealand.
Captain Banyard said they intended to begin the campaign in Christchurch, and gradually work through the South Island to Dunedin. Then they would come back to Wellington and work through the North- Island, as far as Auckland. The Church Army, Captain Banyard said, was established 50 yeare ago. It was an organisation attached to the Church/ of England, and was concerned mainly with evangelistic and social work. At the invitation of the bishops and clergy the army was now extending its activities to New Zealand. It adhered to no one church party; all were able to take part in its activities.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 9
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