SALVATION ARMY

Evening Star, Issue 20943, 6 November 1931, Page 9

SALVATION ARMY

Commissioner John Cunningham,who with Mrs Cunningham is visiting Dunedin on Tuesday, Wedesday, and Thursday of next week, has served in various capacities and_ in a number of countries as a Salvation Army_ officer for forty years. He hails originally, from Perth, Scotland. Among the more important commands which have been held by the commissioner are international' secretary for Europe,territorial comm nder in the Dutch East Indies, chief secretary in the United Kingdom, also South Africa and Holland. The commissioner came to New Zealand as territorial commander in the year 1929. He has 556 officers under his command. The commissioner is lecturing on Tuesday evening in the South Dunedin Salvation Army Hall on a subject he is well able to relate, ‘.Among the Lepers in the East Indies.’, He has had much personal experience of this work. On Wednesday and Thursday evening, in the' North Dunedin' S.A. Hall and. S.A. Citadel, Dowling street, the commissioner will conduct meetings of a spiritual nature, to which the public are invited. On Wednesday afternoon an officers’ council will be conducted. Mrs Cunninghamis advertised to address a ladies’ meet-, ing on Thursday, at 2.30 p.m., in tho Dowling Street Citadel.