EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21806, 22 May 1934, Page 6

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

COMMISSIONER LAMB'S WORK AN HONORARY DEGREE Commissioner David C. Lamb, director of the emigration department of the Salvation Army, who visited New Zealand in 1926 in the interests of EmJ ire migration and settlement, was onoured at the Aberdeen University graduation ceremony last month, when the hc/norary degree of doctor of laws was conferred on him. "Perhaps it may be permissible to single out one special feature of Commissioner Lamb's services to his generation," said Professor Alexander Gray, who presented the honorary graduands. "He has realised as few have done the possibilities of our Empire in providing new homes for old, fresh opportunities for those who have had few or none. In the great field of emigration and Epipire settlement no one has helped a larger number of his fellows than he has done." It was largely as a result of Commissioner Lamb's visit to New Zealand that the Salvation Army instituted its immigration work in the Dominion. The commissioner's long career in the Salvation Army began at Aberdeen, where at the time he was engaged as a chemist. At a complimentary gathering following the conferring of the degree, one f speaker said:—"He exchanged the cure of the body for the cure of the soul, and his lite's work has justified that ftep."