GOOD WORK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20167, 8 June 1928, Page 3

GOOD WORK

THE SALVATION ARxMY HELP IN SOCIAL PROBLEMS [ Special " Chronicle ” Service ] AUCKLAND, June 4. ”In Australia our organisation is making excellent progress, and the Prime Minister told me that more than ever was the Commonwealth looking to the Salvation Army for help so far as some of its social problems arc concerned.” Thus said Commissioner Henry W. Mapp, International Secretary of the Salvation Army, representing General Booth, who arrived in Auckland this morning by the Aorangi after conducting congresses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Commissioner Mapp will proceed to Wellington to conduct the annual congress of the Salvation Army there. One of the paramount social problems is Australia to which he referred was unemployment, which, he indicated, was improving. In England, too, unemployment was on the decrease and there was dawning an optimistic outlook in the industrial world. Speaking of the development of the Salavtion Army movement generally, Commissioner Mapp said there had’ been a remarkable forward move in recent years. Indeed, applications for extensions of the organisation’s activities had been made by countries such as Bulgaria and Turkey, where the Salvation Ajrny did not operate at present.