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"My opinion is that the High Council of the Armv has done the right thing. General Bramwell. Booth, at 73 years of age, and in failing health, could not possibly hope to take up hi? arduous duties again." The speaker was Commissioner Charles Sowton, of Sydney, who is in charge of Salvation Army work in. Mew South Wales and Queensland. < ITe is a passenger on the Niagara and is returning to Sydney after attending the recent momentous deliberation? of the Salvation Army High Council in London. He left "Australia in November last, and was in London for seven weeks. "I think also that the right man has been chosen for the position at the head of the organisation." hfr told a "Sun" man. "General Higgins has the .fullest confidence of Salvation Army officials throughout the world.' I am sure that any danger of a split being created in the ranks of the Army is now over. The rank and file, and our supporters, accept the present situation and feel that the problem has now been cleared up." Commissioner Sowton is a Salvation Army officer of wide experience and was for 10 vears in Canada and the United States. ' During th« 45 years of bis association with the Army ns an officer he has had experience in Sweden, Norway, Denmark -and India. He will remain in New Zealand visiting friends and relatives for about ten days. "Last vear tourists to this country spend about £1,000,000 here, and we , could get them to spnd £15,000,000," declared the. of Infernal Affairs (the Hon. P. A: de la-.Perelle) at the complimentary banquet to the Hon. G. W. Forbes at'-Amberley on Monday night. "Last year tourists spent £68,000,000 in Switzerland. Ofcago nas been called the Switzerland of the South, and that portion of the North Island above .Auckland has great possibilities. The tourist traffic is well worth encourag-