WORLD LEADER

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 8

WORLD LEADER

SALVATION AKMY

GENERAL BOOTH'S VI^IT

RECEPTION TOMORROW

The Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army, General Evangeline Booth, M.A., D.S.M., will arrive in Wellington tomorrow morning from Australia, via Auckland. ' General Booth is the fourth daughter of General William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, and was born in London, England, on a Christmas Day. She was elected General of the Army in September, 1934, to succeed General Higgins on his retirement on November 1 of that year. The visit to the Dominion of General Booth, brief though it is to be, is an event of considerable importance to Salvationists. The General is accompanied by Colonel Griffiths, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Mabee, Major Mrs. Mackness, members of, her staff, and .Mrs. Herbert Booth, her sister-in-law. Also accompanying her on the trip from Auckland to Wellington are Commissioner Adams, head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and Colonel Orsborn, chief secretary. The General and the other members of the party are due to arrive at Thorndon at 7.42 a.m., and they will be welcomed on the station by the Acting Prime Minister (the Hon. E. A. Hansom), and Wellington, Auckland,' and South Island Salvationists. Representatives of the Salvation Army in Auckland arrived at Wellington by special train this afternoon, and South Island delegates arrived at Wellington this morning. In the afternoon, at 2.45, General Booth will be given a civic welcome in the Town Hall. At this gathering the Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) is to preside. The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, will be present, and also representatives of the Government, as well as many prominent citizens. In the evening General Booth will give a Gospel address in the Town Hall, and as it is anticipated that there will be a large crowd who willwant to hear her, arrangements have been made for the accommodation of overflow audiences in the Town Hall Concert Chamber and at the Salvation Army Citadel. General Booth will be in Wellington until Thursday next, when she is to leave for Auckland. She is to sail from Auckland on Saturday next for San Francisco, en route to London. While in Wellington the General will stay at the Paulina Home, Owen Street. She will be present at a young people's demonstration in the Town Hall on Monday night, and at a gathering specially arranged for soldiers and ex-sol-diers in the Town Hall on Tuesday night. She will also conduct Salvation Army officers' councils, which will be held in the Citadel.

Mr. Lyndon Bastings, senior science master at the Dannevirke High School, has received intimation from the University of New Zealand of its approval for the degree of Doctor of Science for a thesis on "The Buller (N.Z.) Earthquake of 1929." This is the first occasion in New Zealand on which the subject of seismology has received such recognition from the university.