SALVATION ARMY LEADER
GOVERNMENT RECEPTION FOR GENERAL ORSBORN
(P.A.) WELLINGTON,. Feb. 17. A Government reception will be given the world head of the Salvation Army, General Albert Orsborn, C.8.E., when he arrives in Wellington next month. With Mrs Orsborn, he will reach Auckland from Vancouver aboard the Aorangi on March 14. He will be accorded a civic reception there, and will leave the same night for Wellington. Salvation Army officials will welcome him on the railway station at Wellington next morning, and a reception at Parliament Buildings will be held soon afterward.
Delegates to the Salvation Army’s national congress will -be in Wellington at that time, and General Orsborn will meet them oh Friday, March 17. On Saturday evening he will preside over a festival of music in the Town Hall. Salvation Army bands from Palmerston North, Petone, Wellington City, Wellington South, Christchurch, and New Plymouth will take part, as well as 200 congress songsters.
General Orsborn will visit Napier, Nelson, Greymouth, Dunedin, Invercargill, Queenstown, Christchurch, Palmerston North, and Auckland, befor leaving for Sydney on April 18.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 7
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