SALVATION ARMY’S COMMUNITY APPEAL

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31662, 24 April 1968, Page 16

SALVATION ARMY’S COMMUNITY APPEAL

Forty-six Salvation Army : social service centres and ]■ more than 100 evangelical units throughout New Zealand as well as overseas missions in 86 territories, will benefit from the Salva- ■ tion Army's national an- : nual house-to-house Community and Overseas Service Appeal on Saturday. Last year about $50,000 was raised in New Zealand from : the appeal and of this amount • about $ll,OOO was collected in the Canterbury and Westland division. As well as giving first aid ' to casualties in the commun- ] ity by means of the sympa- , thetic ear and the counselling i word, the Salvation Army runs a chain of institutions .i giving residential care for the i needy from infants to the ' aged. 1 It is also active in work i with alcoholics, unmarried' mothers, men’s and women’s; social services and pensioners. In Christchurch there are two eventide ho.mes, a Beth- i

any Hospital, emergency centre, Peoples’ Palace and men’s social service centre and at Temuka there is a I boys’ home. As well as providing emergency relief through its over ! seas missions, the Salvation | Army is closely associated] with medical work and is responsible for several hospitals, clinics and leper centres Money collected from the appeal for community service in New Zealand will be distributed through the territorial headquarters in Wellington and funds for overseas missions will be administered by the international headquarters in London. The money will be allocated to those missions in most urgent need of it. Most of the collectors for .the appeal will be members of the Salvation Army. The divisional commander (Brigadier S. A. Smith) said that collectors were still needed in some areas, especially near! New Brighton. No Draw.—There will not] be a Golden Kiwi lottery draw this week.—(P.A.)