GENERAL BOOTH’S SALARY

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1929, Page 13

GENERAL BOOTH’S SALARY

ALLEGED POVERTY DENIED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, July 6. Commissioner Hay, head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand and president of the High Council, commenting on the cabled statement that General Booth died penniless, says the statement that he had an income of £5OOO a year from a trust fund is obviously an error. It can be intended to mean only £5OO a year, as anyone placed as General Booth was could not die penniless had he been in receipt of £5OOO a year. “We knew what was the nature of his disbursements.

“The implication that there was great poverty is quite misleading,” said the commissioner. “There may not have been affluence or abundance, but there was nothing like poverty as usually understood. The suggestion that the education of his children was dependent on his relatives is also misleading. “Personally,” said Commissioner Hay, “I find it difficult to believe that either Mrs. Booth or her family is responsible for these statements, and I know the friends of the Army who provided the trust funds for the General’s allowance would be greatly pained at the suggestions.”