ARMY’S NEW HOME

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 15

ARMY’S NEW HOME

OPENED AT EPSOM TO ACCOMMODATE 40 MEN Building up on its losses the Salvation Army yesterday opened a new brick and concrete structure to replace the Prison Gate and Men’s Industrial Home, in Williamson Street, Epsom. Commissioner J. Hay, 0.8. E., who performed the ceremony, said that replacement of the men’s home at Epsom and Women’s Home 'at Parnell, involved an expenditure of £II,OOO. The cost of the new building could be counted small when the value of the work was visualised. Many of the men passing through it could only be helped in a material and temporary way, but the proportion of men—especially young men—who were helped permanently to regain their self-respect amply repaid the Army’s efforts.

The appreciation of the city’s magistrates of tlie homes provided by the Salvation Army was mentioned Dy Lieutenant-Colonel 11. Simpson. He said that light tasks were given to the men admitted. The salvage of waste material, which, after sorting, was forwarded to paper mills, was one of the industries which was made to contribute toward the upkeep of the home, while the coir mats made at the institution met with a ready sale. The felling and splitting of timber for sale as firewood was another activity. The new home will be ready to.accommodate 40 men in about a week. Field-Major C. H. Cressweli, of Christchurch, will be in charge and he will have two assistants.