SALVATION ARMY
GENERAL HIGGINS SUCCCEEDS GENERAL BOOTH. Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Eel). 13. Before the Grand Council Mr Jowitt, K.C., made a two hour speech combining the legal argument with impassioned pleading. He read a let,ter from General Booth offering' a fresh compromise and allowing the Council to choose the successor, if ho retained the command in a slightly modified form. .Mr Jewitt urged the Council not to dismiss the man who had been ill and nigh to. death. Many of: the listeners were moved to tears. ■fc General Booth’s doctor, two emiBtnt physicians, also two friends; including Mr Hoi lard, the ox-Army’s gave evidence that. General Booth should be physically lit to resume duty in a month or two. The vote 'resulted in live for General Booth and fifty-lwo against. Four abstained from voting. The High Council elected General Higgins. LONDON, .Fob. 13. At the Salvation Army High Council the voting for General Higgins was forty-three and for Eva Booth, seventeen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 5
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