500 DELEGATES TO SALVATION ARMY CONGRESS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 27. Some 500 delegates from various corps throughout New Zealand and prominent overseas visitors will attend the sixty-sixth Salvation Army congress to be held in Wellington from Thursday until Tuesday of next week. The guests will include Commissioner and Mrs. B. Orams, 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 first presentation by the Salvation Army in any part of the world of Handel's Messiah in the Wellington Town Hall on Saturday evening. Commissioner R. M. Astbury, officer in charge of the Salvation Army in New Zealand will leave next week for Melbourne and Great Britain, where lie will take part in a special conference with General Osborn, head of the Salvation Army. He will be absent from New Zealand for about three months.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22931, 27 April 1949, Page 5
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