New Chief Secretary For Salvation Army

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7242, 23 August 1933, Page 7

New Chief Secretary For Salvation Army

ARRIVAL FROM LONDON Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. A warm welcome was given to Colonel A. W. Osborne, the new Chief Secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and Mrs Orsborn and their three children, when they arrived by the Marama from Sydney to-day. Commissioner Cunningham headed a large gathering of Salvation Army representatives on the wharf and brief speeches of welcome were made. Colonel! Orsborn, in reply, expressed pleasure at coming to the Dominion. For the past eight years he lias beea in charge of the men’s training work at the William Booth Memorial College, London. In an interview Colonel Orsborn said the College cost £325,000 and had been open for three years. The total period of training was between four and five years. Last year just over 250 officers were commissioned for stations in the British Isles and other countries not including the colonies, which were selfsupporting in the training of officers. He indicated that the Army was steadily gaining ground in England and stood well in the estimation of the people. Slum work in particular was a great feature and had received a tremendous fillip from Hugh Redmond’s book “God in the Slums.” He had certainly done a splendid thing for tho slum work of the Army not only through the widespread influence of the book but for the reason that he had sacrificed all royalties and devoted them to slum work. Colonel Orsborn said both he and Mrs Orsborn were eagerly anticipating their new field of work. “General Higgins himself gave us the appointif we were willing, but we were willing.”