AN EVENTIDE HOME.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18368, 29 April 1925, Page 2

AN EVENTIDE HOME.

* SALVATION ARMY SCHEME. (special to "thi pmss.") AUCKLAND, April 28. . An important development in the "social work of the Salvation Army in Auckland was announced yesterday by Commissioner Hoggard, who stated that arrangements had been completed for the establishment of a home where old ladies might spend their last few years of life in comfort. The scheme had been accorded the sympathy and interest of Lady Alice Fergusson, and the institution would be known as the Lady Alice Eventide Hbmo. Similar homes had been established in Australia and other countries, said the Commissioner, and had proved most successful. In every community there were many old ladies who, ing brought up their families, fevnd themselves in the declining years of their lives without a homo of their own and dependent, perhaps, on married sons and daughters, whose homes were ali too small to admit an extra inmate. Many inquiries and requests for the establishment of an Eventide ( home had been received by the Salvation Army, but. until recently it had not been practicable to put a scheme into effect. A particularly good, opportunity had now presented itself for. the purchase of a property ideally suited, to the purpose, the residence of Mrs H. Dickeson, View road, Mount Eden, which with.nearly three acres of g r f""»d had been acquired at a cost of £5500.