LIEUT.-COLONEL A. SCOTNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1943, Page 6

LIEUT.-COLONEL A. SCOTNEY

Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Scotney, a retired officer of the Salvation* Army, died at his home at Hataitai this morning following a sudden indisposition. *

Lieutenant-Colonel Scotney was one of a family of well-known and highly respected Salvationists, all of whom have rendered • splendid service in New Zealand for many years. The family came from Yorkshire to New Zealand in 1893 and settled at Dan-

nevirke. Here they all linked up with the Salvation Army, and Albert became an officer in 1898. For ten years he did good service in various corps in Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania. He was then transferred to New Zealand* and appointed to social work. As a manager of boys' homes, first at Island Bay and then at Eltham, he did much useful work in caring for and training young lads who were orphaned or semi-orphaned, and fitting them for the battle of life. In 1920 he was appointed men's social secretary, a special feature of his work in this branch for four years being his interest in and labours for prisoners. He became property secretary in 1924, in which position he had the handling of a large number of building schemes, including new corps halls, social institutions, and officers' quarters. Over 150 buildings connected with the Army's field work, and 34 social institutions were under his supervision. Lieutenant-Colonel Scotney retired from active service in the early part of 1940. but the demands of the increasing war services of the Army prompted him to volunteer for service again, and for over two years he carried on a most useful work as manager of the Salvation Army Red Shield Institute at the Wellington Railway Station, catering for the needs of thousands of servicemen. He was compelled by ill health, however, to relinquish his duties there only a few months ago. Lieutenant-Colonel Scotney is survived by Mrs. Scotney, a son. Albert, who is a naval officer, and a daughter, Myrtle, Mrs. Boudinet, of Christchurch.