Salvation Army Holding Congress
WELLINGTON, April 26. Some 500 delegates from various corps throughQut New Zealand and prominent overseas visitors will attend the 66th Salvation Army eongrqss to be held in Wellington from Thursday until Tuesday of next week. The guests will include Commissioner and Mrs. B. Orams, of Canada, Brigadier Muriel Booth-Tucker, of Sydney, who is a grariddaughter of the founder of the' Salvation Army (General William BoothJ and Brigadier B. Auton, of Australia. A feature of the congress will be the lirst presentation liy the Salvation Army in any part of tho world of Handel's Messiah, in the Wellington Town Hall on Saturday evening. Commissioner R. M. Astbury, oliiceT in cliarge of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, will leave next week for Melbourne and Great Britain where-he will take part in a special conference with General Osborn, head of the Sal vation Army. He will be absent from New Zealand for about .three months.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 April 1949, Page 8
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