TELEGRAPHIC HOAX
SALVATION ARMY BRIGADIER’S
COMMENT.
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association. 1
CHRISTCHURCH, November 8.
“ A wild-cat scheme. Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that our organisation could offer anything in the way of training.” This statement was made tiiis morning by Brigadier F. W. Burton, Divisional Commander for the Salvation Army in Canterbury and Westland, when referring to a telegram from Wellington stating that the Defence Department had almost completed arrangements for alternative seivice to those i objectors to military training on conscientious grounds. It was probable, it was stated, that such service would be With the Salvation Army. “There is nothing in our organisation to meet the needs of the case and I consider, the telegram to be a makeup,” said the BrigadieT,
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1929, Page 3
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