N.Z. SALVATIONISTS
CONFIDENCE IN COUNCIL TRIBUTE TO THE GENERAL Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. “The members of the Salvation Army in New Zealand are very pleased with the appointment of Commissioner Higgins to the supreme command. We have every confidence in the decision the High Council has come to,” said Colonel D. A. Gunn, officer temporarily in charge of the Salvation Army’s forces in the Dominion. “Commissioner Higgins is the right man for the position. “With regard to the deposed leader, I can say that General Bramwell Booth has the undying affection and esteem of the whole army here. We know he has not been responsible for the fight that lias been going on. All the opposition to his retirement has come from the Booth family. We have had inside knowledge that for a long time General Booth has been totallj’ unfit to carry on, and that he was totally unequal to the signing of documents. We know that he was badly advised. Lie ought to have retired. “We have not been antagonistic to
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 589, 15 February 1929, Page 9
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