THE BOOTH MEMORIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 28 January 1913, Page 8

THE BOOTH MEMORIAL.

TRAINING COLLEGE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, January 27. The appeal made to the people of New Zealand by Commissioner Richards of the Salvation Army for £lO- - to enable the Army to build a training college for officers, as a memorial to the late General Booth, has met with a sympathetic response. Up to January 17 last the sum ol £6BIB had been received at the headquarters in Wellington. In an interview to-day, Colonel Fisher, general secretary for the Dominion, said that the Army was well pleased with the result of its appeal up to the present. “This general training college idea was the late General’s great scheme,” he pointed out. “In desiring to establish such an institution in Wellington we have really followed what was his main thought with regard to perpetuating his memory, and it is a scheme which we feel certain would have met with General Booth’s hearty approval himself, had he lived to see it carried out. A training coliege for Salvation Army officers is a great need in New Zealand. They have now to go to Melbourne for training, which has been a disadvantage to us in many ways. A number of our officers do not care about making the long journey, and then there is always the question of expense. The new training college in Wellington will be situated iri Words worth street, near Ohiro road and not far from the Wellington Bowling Club’s green. There we have an acre of ground well-suited to such a prospect. Plains have been prepared for a building costing about £7OOO, and providing for fifty students, twentyfive of each sex. It will be erected in bi’Lk, and, wMh't„e nectuiary *ai\ nishings, should just about absorb tin £1.0,000 which Commissioner Richards is asking from the public. Since the great development of our social reform work, it is necessary particularly to have a training college aparl from the evangelistic work, whercofficerSj may be trained in such duties as are required of them in the Army’s maternity, rescue, prison gate and -boys’ 'and girls’ homes. We art confident that the' full amount of £IO,OOO will soon be to hand.”