BOOTH MEMORIAL COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1993, 25 February 1914, Page 8

BOOTH MEMORIAL COLLEGE.

ONLY £2000 MORE WANTED.

Commissioner Rfe-ha.rds, officer ecsror nianding the' Salvation Army in New Zealand, has fixed upon April 2 as the date for the opening of the General Booth t Officers' Training College in Wordsworth Street, now rapidly approaching completion. The new college, which will acoommodate. fifty cadets, will be in charge of Brigadier Gist, who had command of tho Canterbury Division of the Army, and ho will have as his assistant' Adjutant Carter, who had eonsidorable experience in the work in an- Army Training College. in India. The cadet course extends over tweWe. months, which is followed by. a .probationary course extending over another year during which time the training is continued by postal correspondence with tite head officials ■ of'tho college in Wellington,

"At the present- moment," said Commissioner Richards, "we are only £2000 sliort of the payment in full of the college and the ground it eia.nd-s on, whicli altogether cost .£13,00.0. and, it is our urgent, desire that this fino memorial to the late General Booth, who did ftp much practical good in the world, to open the college free of debt. .We owe that, to his memory, and I feel confident that wo will be ablo to do it." Asked how. it was- that the Army was able to magnetise sticli largo sums of money for its work, Commissioner Richards replied: "We pray to God, and' put forward our best endeavours! '

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