THE ARMY’S LEADER.

Waipa Post, Volume XVII, Issue 963, 3 July 1920, Page 3

THE ARMY’S LEADER.

GENERAL BEAM WELL BOOTH. * VIEWS ON NEW ZEALAND. Appreciation of New Zealand was expressed by General Booth in conversation at Taumarunui recently. “ I like New Zealand,” he said. “I like *the people of the country. I think you really have an opportunity of making it one of the finest communities we have as yet seen. And I believe there are many indications showing that the people themselves know something of that. I have been here three weeks, so am scarcely entitled—scarcely able, in fact —to express my considered opinion. But you have a great future. “ I would say, Banish the drink ! I would say, Give more attention to your womanhood ; to the homelife of your people !” I “The climate,” he proceeded, “lias something to do with it, but there is too much running about. Get it in your mind that education uplifts the life of the people; that man is a complex being ; and that the soul as well as mind and body must be developed. How can you make a man grow up fully unless you give the spiritual a place in your scheme ? I. wish, if it were possible, that I might send to you from Europe some children whom you could make into New Zealanders out and out, and who would find with you a home and.opportunities they would never have in the old countries.”