SALVATION ARMY
ITS SOCIAL WORK.
Some very touching and interesting stories of the Salvation Army's social work were told at a meeting at Leeston on Sunday afternoon.
Major Wood, the Samaritan and Police Court Officer, spoke of many cases of desperate need which the Army had been able to alleviate. In one instance a family of four were living on 9s a week, and in other cases, where through sickness and misfortune there was insufficient nourishment, many comforts had been supplied. The police court work in which the major is daily engaged has been the means of saving many girls and women from despair, and stories were told of numbers who had "made good" during and since their term on probation.
Adjutant Suter also spoke, giving instances of girls who were helped by the Army's rescue homes.
Major Brown, the matron of the Grace Maternity Hospital in Bealey Avenue, Christchurch^ charmed all with her story of a little unwanted native boy who calls her "Mummie." He has absolutely no one apart from the Army who will care for him, but is now growing up happily with 50 other tiny tots at "The Nest"—an Army home.
Lieutenant Lamond thanked the speakers on behalf of the local corps and invited all to help this selfsacrificing work whenever possible.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVIII, Issue 67, 24 August 1937, Page 5
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