SPECIAL SPEAKER

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 192, 12 May 1944, Page 4

SPECIAL SPEAKER

Visitor For Salvation Army Congress Commissioner William R. Dalziel, Salvation Army terriiorial coniuiander of the Australian southern territory, is coming to New Zealand as a special speaker for the territorial youth year congress which will bo held in Wellington from May I. to May 23. He has been a Salvation Army officer for 40 years, starting his career in London. He was the officer m charge of .the Salvation Army ambulance unit in France during the first. World War. Afterward he served at the Internationnl Training College tn London and then as a divisional young peoples secretary. He was next, appointed national life saving scout organizer tor the British Isles and later became a divisional commander, and then assistant chief secretary for the British territory. In 1931 he went to Canada as duet secretary and six years later was appointed territorial commander for the Australian eastern territory, with headquarters at Sydney. Four years ago he became territorial conimander tor tlic Australian southern territory with headquarters at Melbourne. He has given a end to the war activities of the Salvation Artnv in that territory, 'being latwlv responsible for opening and matntaining no fewer than 650 Red Shield Institutes.