SALVATION ARMY STREET DAY APPEAL TODAY

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 18

SALVATION ARMY STREET DAY APPEAL TODAY

The Salvation Army's annual street-day appeal will be held in Christchurch today. The collection will be used to carry on the Salvation Army’s work. The Salvation Army does much work in Christchurch. At Addington it runs a men's social service centre which caters for 65 men. most of them pensioners. In the winter up to 85 men are accommodated. The centre at Addington also caters for men who would otherwise sleep out. is a temporary home for the discharged prisoner or the man under a suspended sentence, and for the man who is simply down on his luck. The manager of the centre (Brigadier F. Hay) attends the Magistrate's Court every day so as to be available to any person wanting help, and often assists men by providing clothes and footwear. Alcoholics are also assisted: some are sent to Sunnyside Hospital for treatment, some are sent to the Bridge, the Salvation Army's clinichostel in Wellington, and some are sent to the Roto Roa Island Inebriates' Sanatorium.

A women's social service centre, known as the Emergency Lodge, is run in Bealey avenue. The officer in charge. Captain Margaret Love, also appears in Court offering help to any woman or girl who cares to accept it. Unmarried mothers are cared for at one of the Salvation Army’s maternity hospitals, delinquent girls are sent to a Salvation Army institution in Wellington, and alcoholics are sent to a home in Wellington. Bethany Hospital. in Christchurch, is one of many hospitals run by the Salvation Army. In addition to its other patients, the hospital can accommodate 11 private patients and 16 unmarried mothers. The matron of the hospital is Brigadier Elizabeth Drummond. There are two Salvation Army eventide homes in Christchurch, and between them they care for 47 women. At Temuka a boys' home cares for 35 boys. The Salvation Army's work is so closely interwoven that often staff in Auckland are engaged on social service work related to Christchurch, or some other centre. Sometimes staff in any of the 86 countries and colonies in which the Salvation Army works are searching for a missing relative or friend for some person in New Zealand. Throughout the world the Salvation Army manages 367 hostels for the homeless. 39 general hospitals, 22 rescue homes for women. 12? maternity hospitals. 928 schools.

2259 social institutions, eight leper colonies, and nine institutes for the blind. In one year more than 6500 missing persons are found. In New Zealand the Salvation Army has 97 corps and 80 outposts. It maintains two training farms, six maternity hospitals, 14 eventide homes, three institutions for alcoholics, four Samaritan centres, and three emergency lodges. It has eight police court officers.