SALVATION ARMY
New Officer Welcomed
Lieut.-Colonel Swain, the newly-ap-pointed women’s social secretary for New Zealand, who arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from Sydney, was welcomed at a meeting held last night in the Salvation Army Citadel, Vivian Street. Commissioner Cunningham presided. The speakers included Dr. Platts-Mills, MIB.; Miss McLean, M.A., president of the Women’s Social Progress Association ; Mrs. A. McVicar, J.P.: and Field-Major Simpson, matron of the Wellington Maternity Hospital. , Colonel Swain declared that her whole life was given up to helping women and children who needed counsel and practical aid. She spoke of her experiences in women’s social work in England and Australia, and said that she had come to New Zealand to devote herself to the task of easing the social problems that faced the country. , „ Mrs. Brigadier Glover, who is wellknown in Wellington for her work in the Police Courts, was also accorded a welcome on her return from England. The children from the Owen Street Home sang a song of welcome and the cadets in training and the Headquarter's Quartette rendered vocal items.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 187, 6 May 1931, Page 9
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