GENERAL BOOTH'S TOUR.
ADVOCATE OF MIGRATION. : ''■:■' Reuter. LONDON. Feb. 7. v;';■-..' '■~" General Bramwell . Booth, accompanied v by Commissioner Mapp, travelling inter- .-'•• national secretary, Adjutant Wycliffe t-"; Booth, a.d Brigadier J. E. Smith, private ■£-'..,'■' secretary, ■ left by the Orsova on ':-.. a' tour of,. Ceylon, Australia, and %f. Zealand. Interviewed before IjsJ,,- his departure, General Booth said mi%. < ho intended to try and interest the Aus■J tralian and New Zealand Governments ';.. - .. more intimately in the possibilities of the £-?• transfer of the right kind of people. ; - He said he felt strongly the shame that we should have large numbers of detent |f|ft.' S?°^ living on the verge of penury. .f\,** •ha trouble was the uncertainty -which W. t x- ' unemployment ■ involved. The day had ?i' *orne in the world's history when there «| , ' as need for more pronounced authority | vof the Government in the management -. 9* the people. Those who managed poor -Si .People'should utilise the vast resources of
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 9
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