SALVATION ARMY

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 144, 14 March 1932, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY

Promotions and Training

Five Salvation Army officers have just received intimation of their promotion to the rank of major. They are as follow:—

Staff-Captain Edward Gibbs, subscribers’ department, National Headquarters; Staff-Captain Horace Smith, trade department, National Headquarters; Staff-Captain Geo. Dry, manager, Men’s Industrial Home, Christchurch; Staff-Captain Perry, manager, Eltliam Boys’ Home; Staff-Captain Geo.' Holmes, manager, Men’s Industrial Home, Auckland. Each of these officers has done over thirty years of service.

This year’s training session opened at the Salvation Army Training College, Aro Street, last week, when 37 cadets were welcomed by the principal, Brigadier .Harewood. The session is to be known as “The General’s Crusader Session” in commemoration of the visit of General and Mrs. Higgins to New Zealand; The new cadets will make their first public appearance at the Vivian Street Citadel this evening, when Commissioner Cunningham will extend a welcome.

General Higgins has just concluded his campaign at Honolulu and he will arrive in Auckland next Monday. The visitors will tour the South Island after visiting Palmerston North and Masterton, and the Wellington congress will not open until April 6.