BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1913, Page 11

BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE

A rather fine Jacobean front ' Is designed '-for the ne%v Salvfttion Army Training College to be erected in Wellington. Since January last nearly £?0O has been received additional to the £6818 already raised for the purpose by the Army. In all £10,000 is required. The architects are. Messrs. Fearn and Quick, and the site is in Wordsworthstreet, 'near the Wellington Bowling Club's green. If has a frontage of over 100 feet and a depth of 300 to 400 feet rising from the road level and affording an outlook over the harbour. The building will contain fifty bedrooms for cadets in training (both male and female), apirtinents for the staff, class rooms, common rooms, libraries, und other quarters, also & lecture hall accommodating 150 people. With .the funds already in hand the Army authorities feel sufficiently encouraged to proceed with the undertaking. The donations to the fund include twelve gifts of £100 each, fifteen of -£SO, and 46 of £25. The college is to be erected as a memorial of the late General Booth Notice of motion to the following effect, has been given to the Methodist Conference by the Eev. D. M'Nicoll :— "That, in View of the great advances made m tho peace movement throughout the. world, and in view of the fact that the present warlike methods of settling disputes are both unchristian and against the best interests of the people, this conference declares itself in favour ef arbitration in all international disputes. We also enter our emphatic protest against compulsory military training ; believing this to be not only a serious reflection on th« patriotism of the people of the Dominion and fraught witn great moral perils to our youths, but also 'entirely oub of -harmony with Christian teaching and the traditions of British freedom. , E'er bronchial coughs take Wood* Great- Peppermint Cure, Is 6d.— Adyt.