SALVATION ARMY.
IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 15. It is announced by Territorial Headquarters of the Salvation Army in Wellington that Lieut.-Colonel George Grattan lias been appointed chief secretary for the Australia East territory with headquarters in Sydney, carrying with it the rank of full colonel He has been chief secretary in New Zealand for the past four years. Lieut.-Colonel Charles Walls has been appointed field secretary for Australia South with headquarters in Melbourne. He is promoted to the rank of full colonel. He has been in New Zealand for thirty years and latterly has been national young people’s secretary. He was awarded the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Colonel Thomas Driscoll comes from Australia to' be chief secretary in New Zealand. He has 42 years of service in Australia. Colonel John Bladin, chief secretary in Sydney, becomes chief secretary in Great Britain.
Colonel Walls was a well-known padre to the troops in the Great War, towards the close of which he suffered a severe accident and had to he invalided to New Zealand. He has on occasion given the Anzac Day address in Palmerston North.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 10
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188SALVATION ARMY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 10
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