SALVATION ARMY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY

COL. J. BLADIN PROMOTED'

Advice Has /been received' by Commissioner J.; Evan Smith from the, International Headquarters of the Salvation ' Army -in ■-, London •. that. Colonel John Bladin ■ has been appointed Terri-

torial Commander for Scotland,: and promoted'; to : the- rank of ■ Lieut-Com-missioner. Commissioner Bladin is well known iri New Zealand .on account of his successful evangelical work. At one time he commanded the Wellington City Corps. He served as a chaplain to the New Zealand Forces in the Great War, first at Featherston.Camp, and afterwards in England and France: Returning to New Zealand after the war he had appointments in connection with young. people's wurk, corps work, and a term as. chaplain of the inebriates colony on Rotoroa; Island. He then became National Young People's Secretary .for New Zealand, which position he occupied for eight years. He then went. as Territorial Commander to. Ceylon, and later as subTerritorial Commander to Newfoundland. Appointments as Training Principal in Canada and Australia followed, and then he'was called to England to become Chief Secretary for the British' Territory i ___^^_^^