GROWING RAPIDLY
CAMP WELFARE WORK SALVATION ARMY POSTS "We are now servicing over 120 military posts in the Dominion," said Commissioner J. Evan Smith, commander of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, who is to-day visiting Auckland in connection with the 53rd anniversary of the Newton Corps. The war work, he added, was growing rapidly. Last week in Christchurch the commissioner attended the opening of nine new huts and to-night another one will be opened near Auckland. In addition to male officers, there are now 12 "lassie" officers on the permanent staffs of the various camps. The big Railway Hut at the Wellington railway station is being enlarged to twice its size.
The commissioner added that 10,000 new garments had been sent to Great Britain for those whose homes had been blasted out and not one case had been lost in transit.
At the various men's homes the waste paper industry has assumed gigantic proportions. Paper mills are pressing for more, and the Patriotic Fund has benefited by several thousand pounds as a result of this work.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1942, Page 3
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