SALVATION ARMY VETERAN

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 12

SALVATION ARMY VETERAN

Representative Of General

Booth Arrives ••For 5S years, as man and boy. I’ve been in the service ot the Salvation Army. When I joined as ollice-bot to the founder, General William Booth, there were only seven of us on the stall at headquarters. London.” said Colonel G. 11. Holmes, Salvation Army oliicet. who arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Rangitata from Loudon. He came to represent General Evangeline Booth, present head of the Army, al forthcoming conferences at Christchurch and Wellington. “I used to tuck the founder of tin movement into his four-wheeler ■growler’ cab when he went out from the otliee,” he said. "Since then I have, been all over the world —to India, South America, and all over the 1 ontinent of Europe. Now I am finishing my education by coming to New Zealand, and it is a marvellous sight to m. v eyes!” Colonel Holmes said he would visit Palmerston North this week-end and would then go to Christchurch for a congress'. Later he would visit Dunedin returning to Wellington for a congress, and afterward going to Auckland. Colonel Holmes was met on arrival by Wellington Salvation Army representatives, who described' him as one of the great, international figures of their movement.-