SALVATION ARMY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 618, 24 August 1933, Page 7

SALVATION ARMY

NEW CHIEF SECRETARY ARRIVES IN NEW ZEALAND A WARM WELCOME Wellington, Tuesday. A warm welconre was given Colonel A. W. Orsborn, the new chief secretary of the -Salvation Army in New Zealand, and Mrs. Orsborn and their three children, when they arrived by the Marama from Sydney. "Phe Commissioner headed a large gathering of Salvation Army representatives on the wharf. Brief speeches of welcome were made, Colonel Orsborn replying and expressing pleasure at coming to the Dominion. Colonel Orsborn has for eight years been in ch'arge of the' men's training work at William' Booth Memorial College, London. 'In an interview he said that the college cost £325,000 and had been 1 open for three years. The total period of training was between four and five years. Last year just over 250 officers were commissioned- for* stationsin the British Isles and other coun-

tries not ineluding the colonies, which were self-supporting in- the training of of&cers. • He indicated that the S(alvation Army is steadily gaining ground in England, and stood well in the estimation of the people. Th'e slum work in particular was a great feature, and he had received a tremendous fillip from Hugh Redmond's hook "God in the Slums." Mr. Redmond had certainly done a splendid thing for the slum work of the Salvation Army, not only by ' the widespread infiuence of the hook but by reason of the fact that he sacrificed all royalties and devoted them to slum work. Colonel Orsborn said that he and Mrs. Orsborn were eagerly anticipating their new field of work. "General Higgins himself gave us the appointment," he said. "He did not ask us if we were willing, but we were willing."