THE SALVATION ARMY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1926, Page 2

THE SALVATION ARMY.

BARRACKS FOR NEW PLYMOUTH. At a meeting of New Plymouth business men at a luncheon yesterday, at which the Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) presided, Lieutenant-Colonel Carmichael (Divisional Commander) and Brigadier (Padre) Walls, of the Salvation Army, outlined a scheme for the .provision of up-to-date Salvation Army premises in New Plymouth. Expenditure to the amount of £4OOO is involved in the intended erection of a main hall on the site of the present building in Brougham Street, and a hall for the Sunday school work immediately behind it, with a frontage to Powderham Street. Lieutenant-Colonel Carmichael said that the object was to provide adequate buildings in place of the old one, which the Army had occupied for 30 years, and which had never been designed for the Army work, but had been adapted as best it could be. Such was the delapidated condition of the old building that the Health Inspector had practically given notice to quit. He pointed out that the Army’s credit was sufficiently sound to enable them to finance the scheme from headquarters, but that would involve heavy charges on the local corps for rent and interest, so they preferred to raise the money outright and not burden the local corps with anything but a reasonable rent for the buildings. For a work of this importance they confidently looked to the people of the district to help them. Brigadier Walls showed what had been done in the matter, and the money already promised. The divisional headquarters, which were at Palmerston North, had promised a sum of £l5O, and the Commissioner for New Zealand had promised if the scheme was gone on with that from the funds available for this kind of work he would grant about £O5O if the balance of the money was raised. The local people of the Army had a fund of about £6lB in the bank, thus leaving a sum of about £2600 to be found. Another substantial personal donation had been promised. During the past few days, they had been promised sums amounting to about £4OO from the Army people themselves. A vote of thanks was accorded the speakers on t'he motion of Mr. C. E. Bellringer, M.P., and tF. Amoore, both of whom eulogised the work of the Army and expressed t’he opinion that the support of the public of the district would be forthcoming. A vote of thanks to the Mayor for presiding concluded the proceedings. Last night, Brigadier Walls addressed between 20 and 30 members of the Returned Soldiers’ Association at New Plymouth, soliciting their co-operation in the campaign to obtain funds for the new citadel. Captain F, S, Hartnell, on behalf of the returned men, assured the padre that the support of those present could be counted on, if for no other reason than as a recognition of the ffreat work done for the soldiers at the front by the Salvation Army. trhe returned soldiers unanimously decided to conduct a stall of basket ware made by returned men at the Salvation