SALVATION ARMY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11

SALVATION ARMY

GENERAL'S CHAMPIOK

LINK WIfH NEW SEAIANU

February 5. ! For some I in*, says the Itatlv Mail, . it. has been clear to the mfche that the champwwship of G«»eral bratnweu Boot* »*n«wl the High CVwicU of the ' Salvatkm Armv huff bw» undertaken «>y a competent and vigorous persona I :t : \. He is Mr. G. A. Polard, a promuwnt ' . it Y man. who for many years was cine! • secretary ami chancellor of the exche- ' quor si International Mead.|««l'«s of ' the Saivaiw* Arm*. He severed bis emmeetioa with the Salvation Army &> years ago> but when he realised that General Booth was fighting a. battle single-handed from a siek bet! against" the High 'Council he considered it his... duty to" help, particularly as he was »c-.; tiveiy concerned in the _of the , deed* of 1904, round the provisions of which the controversy l-agw. "• The energy and enthusiasm of Mr. Pollard can be gauged from the fact thai ■ • it was he whom General William'BflotH ■■■■!: sent to Now Zealand wiso less thaw. ;'; JS3Q in his pocket to establish the army ... in that- country. To-day the property of the army in New Zealand is valued ut well over £1,000.000. Auckland H*r»aU correspondent.