GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1615, 5 December 1912, Page 3

GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL.

r. TRAINING COLLEGE FOB WELLINGTON. . Commissioner Eichards, of the Salvation Army, writes informing us of the intention to erect a national memorial in New Zealand to the memory of the lato General Booth, and the intention is to make an appeal to the public to assist in achieving that end. The commissioner's letter reads 'as follows:— ■ "We are contemplating a New Zealand memorial to our lato General, and I am presuming- to ask that you will help us in connection with the scheme. You may know that one of our late General's ideas was to elaborate a scheme for the more effective training of our officers, and a "College of Humanity" had been mentioned by" the General on several occa■sions; but, up to the time of his death it was not found possible to materialise the idea. With the passing of the General, our London Headquarters has suggested the advisability of each country doing something as a tangible memorial to General Booth, and it happens that jhis proposal harmonises with a plan wo were considering for our work in .this , country. Wβ purpose erecting a training college in the city of Wellington to acoommodate 50 students, or cadets, as we designate them.. The site has been purchased in Wordsworth Street, and in due course we will commence the erection of tlie building, the whole scheme working out at an estimated cost of .£IO,OOO. We ' purpose malrihg an appeal to our people throughout New Zealand. We have already a fair measure of support for the scheme, and although we have only just completed our self-denial appeal, we quite expect that the General Booth memorial scheme will meet with approval. Wo have some money in hand, which can be. devoted to this scheme, but it amounts-only to about ,£1500; with other sums in view, we start with ,£2OOO ns a nucleus of tho fund, thus leaving .£BOOO to. raise. Our own people will raise- a considerable sum. to be contributed by small donations, and I am confident that there are many friends throughout the country who, for this special purpose, would gladly assist 1 us. : My mind is set on JC3500 as a reasonable sum to bo contributed by special donations, and I suggest that.within the Dominion the following list of donors is not an impossibility.—Ten friends at .£IOO £1000; 20 friends at .£SO, JEJOOO; 25 friends at ,£2O, .£500; 50 friends at .£lO, ,£500; 100 friends at .£5, £500. Donations, of course, arc not confined to any of the amounts set forth above, they deal only with possible special sums, the smallest amount contributed will help us, and, indeed, the moro widespread the tribute can be, the moro it nil! reflect something of the late General's world-wide. , sympathies/* ____