SALVATION ARMY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 6

SALVATION ARMY

Civic Reception To General Booth’s Representative “A GOODLY HERITAGE” A civic reception to Commissioner W, J Barnard Turner, international representative of General Evangeline Booth to the annual territorial congress of tbe Salvation Army in New Zealand, and .Mrs. Turner, was tendered by the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, in the Town Hall Concert Chamber yesterday afternoon. Also on tbe platform were tbe Mayoress, Lieutenant-Commissioner F. H. Adams, territorial commander of the armv in the Dominion, Mrs. Adams, Mr R. A. Wright, M.l’., .Mr. C. 11. Chapman, MIK/jir. M. M. F. Luckie, and executive officers of headquarters.

Mr. Hislop said it was a pleasure to him as Mayor to welcome the commissioner and Mrs. Turner. It had been hts privilege in past years to greet on two occasions tbe general of the army, first General Higgins and then last year General Evangeline Booth, who bad succeeded to tbe great office first held by her father. The commissioner and his wife came here after a long period of years in the work of the Salvation Army in many parts of the world. The Mayor mentioned that one ot tbe offices Commissioner Turner had held was that of secretary of the army's Empire settlement work in England. That was an important work, and the Dominion would be greatly affected by tbe way this question was handled in tbe future. The Mayor, paying a tribute to tbe work done by the army in difficult days, said he felt sure the commissioner would find, its work being vigorously carried out in this country. A welcome was also extended by the Rev. L. J. Boulton Smith, on behalf of the Wellington Ministers’. Association. Replying, Commissioner Turner said that in bis short stay here he had been frequently asked what he thought of New Zealand. "As I see it you have a wonderful country, a goodly heritage, and certainly a .very wonderful city here,” be said. Speaking of General Booth, the commissioner said she had made a wonderful impression in every country and clime she bad visited. He also desired publicly to congratulate Commissioner Adams, the chief secretary, Colonel A. Orsboru, ami tbe staff of the army, who were very ably and effectively carrying on tbe work in New Zealand. It was the fifty-third, anniversary of the commencement of tbe army’s work here, at Dunedin. Tfbere had been struggles in the early days, but those struggles bad not been tbe worst thing for the army. It still existed to lift the fallen and the forsaken and it. did not want to get away from that.