The Salvation Army.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 137, 15 May 1885, Page 2

The Salvation Army.

. . - pl • [Napier 2'elegiapii] G-rpat complaints are made concerning the obstruction to traffic cunsed by tlie march out of the Salvation Army. If the half-dozen or so of olwcure; individuals forming the army here could parade the streets without the a<:companini<mfc j of all the larrikins, there would l»e no harm m it. Precisely the same thing occurs — without the ribald jeoring-^whenever the volunteers march out, or when the Fire Brigade has a demonstration Oa ffldi occasions pavement and road art) swarmed by eager crowds rushing and pushing their way m the direction of the line of match. The nuisance is. just -as .great as when the Salvationists perform their Tom-fobfeiy. : . JBiifc it is impossible to make a difiVience m their treatment. Volunteers have a rijjht by law, to march out with flags frying and trumpets braying, and as this nuisance: is not of frequent occurrenco nothing need be said it. . It is different, however, with other demonstrations, and all theso, .along with the Salvation marches, ahotild hv put down by tlo Municipal authorities. If the existinyr by-laws are not sulHcient for; the purpose it is easy enough to frame one to meet the emergency. Perhaps tlie vase might be efficiently -met. by compelling people who want to have ■a... march , to take out iv a. . ljqe.'iscv 'for each occasion, fixing tin* fee at . :«i;ch j a. figure,. as to h>mUc r lie (luiiioiisLmti'-in i a l.u.vury>oii.e't hat t>o esjieuaive to ' W oiicu indiilgud m, j