HIGGINS' APPOINTMENT APPROVED IN NEW ZEALAND

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 15 February 1929, Page 5

HIGGINS' APPOINTMENT APPROVED IN NEW ZEALAND

BIGHT MAN FOR THE PORTION.

GENERAL BOOTH TOTALLY UNFIT

WELLINGTON, Last Night. I Salvation Army in New Zealand is very pleased with Commissioner Higgins’ appointment to the supreme command. ■ We have every confidence in tihe decision the High Cdflncil has come to,” said Colonel D. A. Ounri, the officer temporarily In charge -of the Salvation forces in the Dominion, to-night. “Commissioner Higgins. is the right man tor the position,” Colonel Gunn added.

•‘ln regard to the deposed leader, ■■ I can say that General Booth has jtjhe undying affection and esteem of the whole Army here. We' know he has not been responsible for the fight' that has been going on. “All the opposition to his retirement has come from the family. We have had inside knowledge that for: a f long time General Booth has been totally, unfit to carry on, and that he was .totally unequal to the signing of documents.

“We know that he was badly advised and he ought to have retired. We 'have not been antagonistic to the old general, and he will always have our confidence and affection. There will he a great tribute ipaid to him, although his retirement! was resisted by the family.”