GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 11

GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL

SALVATION ARMY’S APPEAL. £7500 RAISED TO DATE. Since January 17th last, when £6BIB had been subscribed towards the £IO,OOO asked for by Commissioner Richards, of the Salvation Army, to enable tho Army to build a training college for officers as a memorial to the late General Booth, further donations amounting to £6SO have been received. This brings tho total up to £7500 to date, and gives the Army authorities sufficient encouragement to make an early start with tho work. The subscriptions includo twelve donations of £IOO each, fifteen of £SO, forty-six of £25, sixteen of £2O, four at £ls 15s and £ls, fifty of £lO 10s and £lO, and 100 of £5. The design as shown was drawn by Messrs Fearn and Quick, architects, Wellington, and makes provision for

every convenience for a college for men and women officers in training, with two complete sets of apartments for twenty-frv© of each sex with all the necessary class rooms, bedrooms, libranTho building will have fifty bedrooms for tho cadets in training, six do. for officials on the staff, two large class rooms, two teachers common rooms, two largo dining rooms, kitchen and scullery, two libraries, two principals’ rooms, reception room, large lecture hall seating 150 persons, two large lavatories with all conveniences, and eight bath rooms. To theso must be added all-the necessary outbuildings and basement rooms, such as recreatiou room, box rooms, changing rooms, eto . making a very complete building, which will bo erected in brick. Tho land which has been purchased is situated in Wordsworth street, not far from the Wellington Bowling Club’s green, covering nearly an acre, with over 100 feet frontage and a depth between 300 and 400 feet. The ground rising with a nice slope from the frontage will give the college a splendid po sition. It is proposed to place tea building in tho centre of tho property, and from its windows and main entrance there will be a fine view of the expansive waters of Port Nicholson, the Hutt valley, and the surrounding hills. Commissioner Richards, in conversation with a “Times” reporter, said that the Army was grateful for the way the memorial appeal has_ been rq L spohded to, and it has faith that the people of New Zealand will not fail it, but provide tho full amount of the £IO,OOO required to complete tho scheme. “I am,” he added, “full of praise for the generous folk who have led the way. with the large amounts, and just as thankful and appreciative of those who have done what they could in a smaller way, and proud, too, of the response from tho individual members bf the organisation also who ’havedono nobly. The last few thousands are often hardest to obtain, but I feel there are many more friends of the movement and admirers of the late General Booth, who will yet respond and bring the scheme off as a triumph.”