GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH.
QUESTION O'F SUCCESSION. I Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, Nov. 14. The “Daily Express” says that General Bramwcll Booth _ deposited _ the name of his successor with his solicitors' in a sealed envelope. The high council of the Salvation Army, however, is prepared to fight the issue of the pnncipal office, which it claims is in a sense hereditary. The council pointed out that under the present conditions General Booth, apart from being spiritual chief, holds on behalf of the Army thirty millions sterling in property throughout- the world, including £1,040,000 m Australia and New Zealand, of which lie is sole trustee.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 November 1928, Page 4
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