PHILATHROPIC WORK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2113, 2 April 1914, Page 6

PHILATHROPIC WORK

BY SALVATION ARMY,

MATERNITY, HOME OPEWEft

The new fSalvntion Army Maternity Hospital in KeiieinifloH- M-rwl, wmh opiMiml yeeloHlay nfleniooif ».v Hin ««'■- ship tins -Major (Sir. J. V. Milio) »H tho presence of a large jJHWii'riin; lit SnlvationisU and etliur*. Omuiissmitw Kiclmrds presided, awl fl.moli« tii/iso present were; Tins timu (]. M. JAilu. , , tho Hoii, C. H. Mills, i)t; A. K. «<■«<• Joan, Mr. It. A. WWs<lii,, Mr. l>. M'Lit.re«, La<ly SUiict, n»d lit, i'lnttr,Mills. Tho largo h!uml;o.c ol" »poK>Kiiw , absence which we.ro rccvivud iticluibtl oDMiftiii.MicnttoHi* fi'mn t|to I'riwo Minister, thfi Hoh. Jnfliw Allen, tko Hon. U, l>. M, Sir Rabert Stont, Mr. Jifstice Cooiier, Mr. W, 0. HkWoH. H.U., Mrs. Scddoß, aiwl Air. H. FluloW. For a long ttwie the work of the Kill* vsitioii Army iu Jioli)in.i; women in iißod of aid h,is bflen torriutl eu iw tlie <ild Lcmo in Thompson Struct, Within vo* tent years, liotvever, tlio Army authorities- saw that th-o homo \va-s iinidetiiiutc, and thoy eventually soctrrwl a piecu of iai-id anil pranisvs in Koiisiiietoii StMct. Addifcioiis aud rojwjvuiions \rero carrjed put t'H t(io l>(ii!ding n.m! tlie result today is n lino two-storoy stnwtiire picnic. aiitly situated. Tho «iet of tlw nltoretians aiwnuted to £3800, uiwj the btrfWiiig is earpablo <jf awommoduting 80 patients.

Th 9 (Mstrctchod Hand. Commissioner Itkhants was tho first' speaker nt the ceremony yesterday. This was, lie stated, tho tiurd maternity hospitftl that lio had had the pleasure of seeing erected % tho Away ■the past twelve 'months. Oho, which ho had opoiwrtl at Auckland, about- seven months Jiad cost £42013, and medical authorities declared it to bc/'oftu of the inosjj np-te-daio esta-blislwiienis in tho Dpiijfeion. A few months ago ho iW opening of an equally liao institution at Dunodia. Tho stmeturo Which they woro new opening in. ■Wellington hadbeeti splendidly equip* ped and finished ,o(f. Intornally it was .superior to cither the' Auckland or Dunedin institutions, , though there was Jtot so nsneii accompanying land. Ift the old ramshackle Witling in Itioiujjson . Street, continued this speaker, excellent ; work had tieen done, and he Was pleased to say that, of the. SO girls who were treated in that institution last year) forty Were* now doing (coll, while soifio : ejf tlififfl wore Married, lie Conimis- . then inade cora.plimentafy referciiee to the ttork of' Major DeiWi.iSoß and staff. At present they had twenty* quo pirtieiits in tlio how institution and they' had' more fl-pplieation-s tlian. they could accommodate.

'< "All Honour to Your The Mayor of .Wellington was the Best speaker. U.o. .rcjnarketf that one of. the niost pleasant-, duties in bis. Mrtyorai capacity .during the past year was that connected with the Salvation Army, Tfeo Gity Council appreciated tho splendid work whidj was being done fey them in tho cit ; j% The Artuy wqg an. organisation whose sphere of activity extended to all classes of wods-and their social ivork especially was near to the hearts aid interests of tho people. This was dfimoßstrated that afternoon by the spten-did buiWing which'he was about to ofoft. TW deplored tlio fact tUftt there' Should be a necessity for gscji aij institution, yet, while regretting that fact, they m«s.li recognise the good that such &a ifrstitiitian achieved,' On behalt of the citizens of Wellington, lift stekl: "All honour to the Baivatioii Army ; oH honour to their late 'General and present Gcner-fil; and all honour to the good lvork which they are doing." When General William Booth died some peopte ha<l said that the work of the Arniy would pass away, bat the speaker believed, and tlio Army was domoiistratiijg, that its work Would go on and continue. "I say all honour to ytfii," said Mr. Lulvo in conclusion; "go forward and prosper.".

Vtee antf Ms Nemesis. Br. PMfcs-Mills gave an interesting : and fiveljMVoi'ded address. • Sho re-; mnA'fid tfeit this was one of tho largest : meetings* of social helpers ove* , 'held ; in Now Zealand* Tho work *f the d'-Oc-to* and , of tii& sqeii'i Worker were ; clo-sely allied. In private practice the niedieal practitioner .got to know their patients, and they tfoated them individually.. It -was not spnougii tb iroaf the individual, lioftwcr; thcy'iiiust treat :tlje cpmrnuitity, aud that was wiie.ro the Sacia'l w«rk<ir came in«— dectors .realised tiat f and tho greatest helper of the decfor nas tii-e social worker. Ce.nf-roiit-ing them tlioy found two gr&at problems to-deal with: Tho unmarried mother' and tho socially diseased. It was very sad to state that many of tile cJiililron bnrn ixKlay bow, ttrarfes of iiiliorited disease, due* to vice.' flttring tlio last few months, continued tto speaker, an enormous aiiiouiit of good Ji.td , Ircen done ■by- foQiiSai-'ig attention, eft this evil.' Some- doctors maintained thitt this social disease- had jj'othittg t<? do with mai'als> and that tjio cause was only- piij'sical, hnt slip (tk© s-pcaber) dissented from tlisfr view. Sα long as they had. the sra <rf iiiipwity they would have inevifcq\>h calamities follewing. in its wales. She felt sure that one thing which was giaiwg. to art as a preventative to the evils .of which she was speaking was the odnc4tion of raa.n, woman, and chrJd. They must them ta resitfet tera--sdives aiid'otliers, and to lomt oil their bodies as tetnples of the Haly Ghost. Vice liwist lio avoided, and it must bx> Wiivefsailv known fhatJJie misuse of boSly f mictions lett_ to>. misery and disease. In fioftoluswti, i\w spoalcor eongr.jtiilatnd tho SalvatiW Army ion tiw beautiful Iwmo wluoli they were apenilig , that daj*.

Building opened. Or. A. K. Newman also spoke, later alia, ho stated- that he wished to congiatniate the Salvation Army. f» tho great fact that it had oattiorl the respect and goodwill .of the people of Hew ZoatiwcL „. , , . , Comftiissioncfi Ricliards then presented tho Mayor with a- key of the building, and Mr, Luke declared , tho institution open amidst cheers. Bmius* tho afternoon the Du.ftedm City Salvation Army Baud rendered selections. , .