SALVATION ARMY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 42, 19 February 1932, Page 8

SALVATION ARMY

VISIT OF GENERAL HIGGINS THE ITINERARY DRAWN UP DETAIL. 1 ? OF DOMINION CAMPAIGN ( Per Pres* Association. I WELLINGTON, Feb. 18. Ou March 21, New Zealand will welcome the Salvation Army General Higgins and his wife. They left Southampton on February 3 on the Berengaria and travelled, vio New York and Toronto, to Vancouver, where they conducted the first meetings of their present tour. Following this they led campaigns in Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles. They are scheduled to conduct meetings in Honolulu, from March 4 to 9. and are due to arrive at Auckland. March 21. The initial public function In which they will take part in New Zealand is a civic reception at Auckland. Following this will come a public meeting in the Town Hall, at which Sir James Parr will preside. Palmerston North will be the next stop in the itinerary, and here, on March 23. they will be accorded a civic reception and welcome meeting in the Opera House, which will be presided over by the Maynor, Mr A. E. Mansford. On the following day. Masterton will he visited where a civile reception will be accorded the visitors at 11 a.m. They will then inspect the Cecelia Whatman Home for Children. On Good Friday. March 25. General and Mrs Higgins will arrive in Christchurch. where the Civic Theatre will be the scene of a series of meetings entitled. “A day at the Cross/’ On Saturday morning, at 10.30 o’clock, a civic reception will take place. In the afternoon. Mrs Higgins will condwt a meeting for women in the Citadel and the evening will be de oted to meeting with Salvationists. All day. on Sunday, meetings will be held. In the Civic Theatre, in the afternoon, the General will lecture on the Salvation Army s world wide activities, the Prime Minister (Kt. Hon. G. W. Forbes), prcsidThe next four days will be taken up with visits to Grevmouth on March 28. Kshburton on Marek 29, Temuka. and Timaru on’March 30, Oamaru on March 31.' Three days will be spent at Dunedin where a eivie reception will take place at noon on Friday. The Army■ s social institutions in the city willbe visited during the afternoon, including the men’s shelter, women’s ndnstrial home, maternity hospital and girls home. On Saturday afternoon. Mrs Higgins will conduct a meeting for women in the concert chamber and a meeting for Salvationists will be held at night. The Town Hall will be the scene of activities on Sunday when three meetings will be held. The Hon. Dowme Stewart, Minister of Finance, will preside over the afternoon gathering when the General will deliver a lecture. Invercargill will be visited on April 4 a civic reception taking place at 1-oU n’.m. and a public welcome in the Town Hall at night. Journeying back to Wellington, the General and Mrs Higgins will conduct the annual Territorial Congress. from April 6 to April 11. Hastings will be visited on April 12, and Hamilton on April 10. Following a wee’-end campaign m Auckland, the General and Mrs Higgins will embark on the Aorangi, on April 18, for a campaign io Australia.