THE SALVATION ARMY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20867, 8 May 1931, Page 12

THE SALVATION ARMY.

CONFERENCE IN AUCKLAND. EXTENSIVE PROGRAMME. Contrary to tlio usual custom, the Salvaf ion Army will not liold .1 combined annual conference in Wellington this year. Commissioner Cunningham decided instead that gatherings for officers and ordinary members should be held at tho four centres. Already conferences have heen held at Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington, and the Auckland gathering is to be held from next Thursday to ibe following Monday. Public meetings have been arranged and these will be held either in the Town Hall or the Congress Hall, Grey's Avenue. There will be a welcome meeting on Thursday evening in tho Congress Hall, when it is expected that 200 delegates. from Whangarci in the north to Te Kuiti in the south, will be present. Among the outstanding events will be a musical festival on the Saturday evening in the Town Hall. Seven bands will take part. On tho Sunday afternoon Commissioner Cunningham will give a lecture 011 the work of the army in the Dominion. Tho newly-elected Mayor of Auckland, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, will preside. On the Sunday evening in the Town Hall, Commissioner and Mrs. Cunningham, assisted by prominent, officers from Wellington, will conduct a largo evangelistic meeting, and the last public function on the 'Monday evening will take the form of a young people's demonstration.