SALVATION ARMY LEADER

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27859, 6 January 1956, Page 10

SALVATION ARMY LEADER

GENERAL KITCHING TO VISIT N.Z.

PUBLIC MEETINGS IN CHRISTCHURCH

General Wilfred Kitching, international leader of the Salvation Army, will arrive in Christchurch on March 3 on a two evangelistic campaign in New Zealand. He will be accompanied by his wife, his aide and secretary (Brigadier T. S. Read), and the international youth secretary of -the Salvation Army (Colonel Gosta Blomberg). Christchurch will be the only city in this country in which General

etching will hold public functions.

le evening of March 3 a gener« leeting of Salvationists will be hel<

id on Sunday, March 4, he will hoi iree public gatherings in the Civ

Theatre. A meeting for women Salvationists will be held before the party departs on March 5 for Wellington. There General Kitching will conduct the annual Salvation Army Congress of New Zealand.

General Kitching will inspect Salvation Army evangelistic and social welfare branches of work, and will interview leading Government and civic authorities. He will visit Auckland on March 14, and will open the new wing of the Mens’ Social Centre at Epsom. Provision is to be made in this wing for the after-care of alcoholics discharged from the Roto Roa home for inebriates.

General Kitching, his wife, and Brigadier Read will arrive at Auckland by the Orsova on March 2.

Colonel Blomberg, who was this year appointed Salvation Army international youth officer, will arrive at Auckland by air from Australia on February 25. The purpose of his visit to New Zealand is to acquaint himself with the youth movement here. He is a Swede who has served at the international headquarters in London, and at headquarters in the United States, Sweden, and Finland.

Colonel Elomberg will attend a Salvation Army athletic meeting to be held at Auckland on the afternoon of his arrival, and in the evening he will address youth workers. A special rally of youth will be conducted by him the next day.