OVERSEAS VISITORS FOR SALVATION ARMY CONGRESS
WELLINGTON, This Day. Some 500 delegates from various corps throughout New Zealand and prominent overseas visitors will attend the sixt y" sl . xth , vation Army Congress to be held in V ulington from Thursday until Tuesday of next w c The guests will include Commissioner and Mrs B. Grams, of Canada, Brigadier Muriel Booth-Tucker, of Sydney, who is a granddaughter of the founder of the Salvation Army (General William Booth) and Brigadier B. Auton, of Australia. A feature of the congress will be the nisi presentation by the Salvation Army in any part of the world of Handel’s “Messiah m the Wellington Town Hall on Saturday evening, -» Commissioner R. M. Astbury, oilicer-m--charge of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, will leave next week for Melbourne and Great Britain, where he will take part in. a special conference with General ’ Osboim, head of the Salvation Army. He will be absent from .New Zealand for about three months. -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1949, Page 6
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