SALVATION ARMY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 55, 28 November 1907, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY.

SOME ENTERPRISING PROJECTS. . ;INEBRIATES'AND ORPHANS' HOMES. "' Brigadier Albiston, officer in charge of the. salvation Army's work in the North Island, ind; Brigadier Bray,' officer in charge of the iociapwork for Australasia, arrived in WelUilgton ; in . high'spirits last evening, after taking over Bell's Island, in the Hauraki Gtilf,'" for an Inebriates' Home; arid visiting ithe ' site; for a Boys' Orphanage which Mr. Jenkins, has presented; to the' Army at Eltham., /.Chatting with: a representative • of THE. DdMiNioN, the Brigadiers gave some information concerning the '.Army's latest schemes, which snppiemeiits news previously telegraphed. , ' . ' TREATMENT OP INEBRIATES. : ' The Inebriates' Home, it was, learned, is espectod to ha -formally, opened by , the end of January. If the Home proves successful, of which tin; two officers have not any doubt, similar' institutions will be established 'in Wellington, Christchurch,: and Dunedin; -as fast as.tho Army can obtain properties. Tho Home will be under experienced management frorii; the. first. Staff-Captain and Mrs.' SimpEi°l l. n°">v in charge of the Prison Gato Hoijie and court, work in'"Auckland; ' will have charge of . the institution, , assisted- by Captain .-Wadsworth, who'has also" been associated /With the' Auckland Prison Gate work. They.'will' doubtless...meet' a number of their old acquaintances'among the patients. Tho Sorvic.es of; Mr. Goldip, "son-in-law of Mr.; Bell,' proprietor of tho .island, who knows the. working ; of: the .electric lighting plant and othei appointments, of the island, are being' retained for twelve months by the Army.' ORPHAN BOYS. she IJome for Orphan and Destitute Boys to be.,erected at Eltham will be tho first of its kind in the Dominion. Its scope will be the;-same; as that of the successful. Girls' Orphanage at Newtown; Mr. Jenkins has given.a magnificent site, comprising ten acres of fertilo land, on an elevation overlooking tho. town. Ho has promised also to erect a building, according to plans and specifications to be; submitted, by tho- Army, to furnish it . it hen. built, and to hand over the entiro institution to. tho. Army, .free of encumbrance It;.is:computed that the gift will represent of about £4000. • It is proposed to providd accommodation, for sixty boys. • J>lr. lMndlay's free offer of l j } aercs of land at Ivemuera for the purpose of a girls' orphanage, is at'.-present under consideration by tho Army leaders. : There is no'doubt that an orphanage will be built.. ■; • ' OiSUHAR(?ED PRISONERS. / tho nest" few. days' Brigadiers • w i? an d will inspect several sites in Wellington under olfer of sale to the Arm}* for the purpose of a homo for discharged prisoners. Such homes already oxist in Auckland and Christchurch, and in all the Australiim citios. discharged prisoners aro assisted ;n theso institutions to build up their characters, and suitable work, is found lor them. Ihe Army already holds services in the.gaol, and provides discharged, prisoners anxious.to reform, with snecial rooms in the workmen s Hotel, in Buckle Street, besides lending them a helping hand in other directions:-" It is thought, that this .work can be made mudh more effective, hiwever, if a special institution is provided for the purpose. ■' . 1 - OTHER INSTITUTIONS. ' The People's 'Paiaco Hotel, which tho Salvation Army is building in Wellington at t, cost of £10,000 for the accommodation of '.ts own, and timid travellers, and to assist tlio' funds of charitable institutions that are not self-supporting, is expected to bo finished bv next Easter. Brigadier Bray, who will remain in Wellington'till Tuesday next, when be will leave to'visit and inspect th'e South Island institutions, was'for a long time in.plinrjw of tho Army's institution lor ho.vs id. Ba.vswater, near. Melbourne. Three separate homos—a reformatory for criminal youths, with some sixty inmates; an intermediate homo for neglected children, not sufficiently reformed for boarding out, and a home for non-vicious, but unfortunate boys and orphans—occupy a site of some 400 acres. Discipline necessarilsvaries in the tlirce establishments, hut all arc, conducted on the same principles, and bS ' far as possible the inmates recoivo a State school education.