MRS GEORGE CARPENTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 7

MRS GEORGE CARPENTER

A NOTABLE PIONEER Mrs George Carpenter, who with her husband. General George Carpenter, international leader of the Salvation Army, arrived in New Zealand yesterday, is (says an article in an overseas War Cry) already widely known as a writer. She is the author of " The Angel Adjutant,’ dealing with the work of a woman officer in the slums of London. She has written biographies of the pioneers of the Army, including William Booth, the founder. "To the women of the Salvation Army,” the article says, “ belongs the larger credit for Ihe world-wide establishment and prestige this organisation has reached in 80 years, and Mrs Carpenter must be regarded as one of the notable women pioneers in Australia, as in her earlier career she and her assistant rode horseback over mountain and through bush country to establish Salvation Army outposts. From such humble beginnings she had to meet the almost superhuman task of organising a force of women who could fill the great needs of women and children facing continual oil' bombardment in England. Nearly 200 centres of distribution for immediate needs of clothing, bedding, and food were quickly established, and distressed families rehabilitated with supplies placed at Mrs Carpenter’s disposal from America, Canada, and Australia, as well as New Zealand.”