SALVATION ARMY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 4

SALVATION ARMY.

HEADQUARTERS AT WELLINGTON. J3ig changes are at present taking place in conncction with the administrative work of the Salvation Army in New Zealand. As was announced a few weeks ago, Now Zealand, which has hitherto .. Ixrn divided into .two provincial districts, as sections of the Australasian )' territory and under the contTol nf Conis inissioiicr ]Jav, >v*it)i headquarters at e Melbourne, i* for the future to be a d Territory by itself with, lis own Coml ~ misxioner, answerable only to heauquarty er.s in London. This. means many changes e internally and entails good deal ot y work in providing for the new order of V th Cofond Fisher, of the headquarters r s+Jiff. Melbourne, arrived lierc from the , south on Saturday morning in connection P with the preliminary work in changing . the administration. In the course of an ; interview with a Dominion- reporter Col-on-el Fisher so,id that hitherto there hnu * been (wo headquarters-Wellington in tho '' North Island, and Christchureh m the '• South. No«' Wellington >vonltl he Hie c headquarters for the whole of the Doe minion, and the new Commissioner, whoe ~v cr ] 1? was, would take up his residence 1 hci-f. Instead of two provinces Now Zo<i--0 lnnd would he one Territory subdivided 1 into four centres—Auckland, Wellington, Christciuirch, and Bunedin. His mission & to New Zealand was to arrange for the - transfer of accounts and records from Hie I provinces to the centres, so that when the r Commissioner came all would bs in readi- ' for the new style of management. i Who will l>e the new Commissioner? "That is not yet known—he may he r appointed at any time now. and it may ! not be for three months. Rut the time ; token in making the selection is to me • evidence of the great care ami delibera- ! t.ion that is being exorcised in the mak- ' ins of the appointment. New Zealand is ; regarded both in Melbourne nnd ' London as a. very important cnun- - trv as far as the Army is concerned, and ' it'is essential that the risrlit mull should > selected to control our affairs now , that it is to be an independent Terri°?'T leave on Monday for 'Auckland to establish the new centre, and to pay n visit of inspection to the Inobviat-V Homes on Pa'-afra and Poteroa Ts'nnds in Auckland Harbour. Brigadier Bray will remain here in chaw of_ the social wor': for a time at )"nst. Everyone who knows Brigadier liny has a verv high opinion of him, and he could ill Im> spared in New Zealand. Brigadier liray will accompany me to AucMnw' and we will return Wether a-s I am leaving for Sydney on Friday next. "New Zealand has been so whole-heart"d in the pa't that there is no n?o*l (•> b?. speak a warm welcome for (he new c'oi"inissioner," siid Colonel FMiei'. "110 i> pure to set that here."