THE SALVATION ARMY

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1919, Page 11

THE SALVATION ARMY

TRIBUTE BY GENERAL RICHARDSON.

Writing to Commissioner Hodder, of the Salvation Army, Brigadier-General G. S. Eicha.rdson, who returned to Wellington from England on Wednesday, says: — , " I would like you to place on record, through the columns of your! paper, my high appreciation of the excellent work done by tho Salvation Army for tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The New Zealand Salvation Army has raised large sums; of money on behalf of the New .Zealand soldier, and I can certify to this . money having been . judiciously spent in the interests of the men. ' The Salvation Army organisation, through the medium of Major Green and the various Salvation Army chaplains, has assisted me to a very great extent. Large numbers of men in London have been personally assisted, from Salvation Army funds. The Salvation Army has also established huts in the various camps in England, a large hostel in London, where our men on returning from the trenches were able to obtain accommodation equal to tßal of any good hotel in the city. At, Etaples a; large hut was erected by the Salvation Army, and every one of the. reinforcements passing from England to the Division were entertained and their social needs provided for by the New Zealand Salvation Army. Also the sick from the various hospitals in France were looked after :n (be same institution. lam deeply indebted to all chaplains and the Salvation x^rmy, who have worked so hard for .the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the interests of their relatives in this country."