SELF-DENIAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 8

SELF-DENIAL

SALVATION ARMY'S EFFORT

YEAR'S INCREASE £1781 The annual meeting in connection with tli© Self-Denial effort of the Salvation Array was held last evening in the Citadel, Vivian Street.' -The chief secretary (Lieutenant-Colonel Powley) presided, and paid a warm' compliment to all those who had contributed to the remarkable success of the effort. Last year, he pointed out/the sum of £17,129 was collected in the Dominion, whereas this year, in spite of the war and other calb upon the public and private purse, the sum raised was £18,911, an increase of £1781 over the effort of 1913. The result was loudly acclaimed. , The chief secretary read a telegram from General Booth expressing delight at the figures. Commissioner Hodder, who has arrived in Australia on his way to New Zealand; also cabled • from Adelaide in similar terms. The following are particulars of the effort:— Self-Denial Totals. ■ ■ • Total, ■ Total, InDivision. • . ' •1913. 1914..crease. £••■•£ «£ Wellington 5,436 6,181 741 Training College... 1,666 1,760 93 Auckland 4,132 4,567 435 Dunedin 2,913 3,106 193 Christchurch 2,980 3,295 314 Totals 17,129 18,911 1,781 The totals for the various corps in the ■Wellington Division are:— • 1913. 1914. Inc. ■ , £, £ £ Apiti 57 46 _ — Ashhurst GG 42 — Blenheim .....' 162 191 32 Carterton ■ 240 Incomplete Dannevirke 160 161 1 Foxton 100 111 Feilding i :I<o 210 '.' -'40 Gisbqrne , .' 1,637 ,2iloo 512 Hastings : , 400 400 • — Levin, 120 83 — Marton ,1.... . 106 143 37 Mastertoa '203' 214 11 Motueka 88 ■ 128 40 Napier ' 253 305 52 Nelson. : 148 23.6 ' .'B7 Norsewood .87 100 13 Pahiatua 107 107 — Palmerston North ... : 417 . 367 — Pelone • • 151 82 — Taihape 148' 136 - Waipawa .: 146 200 54 Wanganoi 365 315 — Woodville 102 115 13 Lower Hiitt — 83 — v Totals .£6,181 £Ui The totals for the Training College Division, Wellington, are as under:— . 1913. 1914. Inc. «£ <£ £ Wellington City;..., 1,356 1,320 - Wellington South -... 310 320 10 Kilbirnie — 63 63 Brooklyn ... . — 57 57 ".Totals £1,666' .£1,760 X 93 ; Notable' Young People's increases are as under-, the 1913 figures being given first and the 1914 figures' following in each case:—/' ' Harfcon, .£5 155., ~£3O; Napier, .£33, .£63; Nelson, i£7, * JE36; Dunedin North, .£57, .£"0; Milton, .£9, £16; Queenstown, ■£20; Inglewood, Xl 5, ,£3O; Waihi, ilB, .£34; Lyttelton, .£2O, j£39; Sydenham* .£BS, ,£IOO. .