A WARM WELCOME.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12428, 22 August 1933, Page 6

A WARM WELCOME.

NEW CHIEF SECRETARY. THE SALVATION ARMY. Electric Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON. This Day. A warm welcome was given Colonel A. W. Orsborn, the new Chief Secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and Mrs Orsborn, and three children, when they arrived by the Maiania from Sydney. Commissioner Cunningham headed a large gathering of Salvation Army representatives on the wharf.. Brief speeches of welcome were made. Colonel Orsborn, in replying, expressed pleasure at coming to the Dominion . Colonel Orsborn for the' past eight years has been in charge of the men’s training work at the William Booth Memorial College London. In an interview, he said that the college cost £325,000 and had been open three years. The total period of training was between four and five years. Last year just over 250 officers were commissioned for stations in the British Isles and other countries, not including the Colonies, which were self-supporting in the training of officers. He indicated that the Army was steadily gaining ground in England and stood well in the estimation of the people. Slum work in particular was a great feature and the Army had received a tremendous fillip from Mr Hugh Redmond's book ‘‘God in the Slums.” He had certainly done r, splendid thing for the slum work of the Army, not only for the widespread influence of the book, but by reason that lie had sacrificed all royalties and devoted them to slum work. He said both lie and Mrs Orsborn were eagerly anticipating their new field work. General Higgins himself gave us the appointment ” he said. "He did not ask us if we were willing, but we were willing.”