SALVATION ARMY CHIEF

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 13

SALVATION ARMY CHIEF

DEPARTURE FOR CANADA WILL ADDRESS 50 MEETINGS (From Our Kcsidcnt Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Today. Fifty farewell meetings will be addressed by Commissioner Hay, of the Salvation Army, who leaves, with Mrs. Hay, toward the end of October for Canada. Commissioner Hay’s place in New Zealand will be taken by Commissioner John Cunningham, who is at present international secretary of the Army in London. “I like New Zealand and its people,” said Commissioner Hay, “and I have found my work here tremendously interesting, seeing the work of the Army growing with the country. There has been a striking extension of the membership of the Army. We have added more members in the last three years than in the previous ten. By the grace of God we have been permitted to oiien up 16 new centres, to build 23 new halls and create three new social institutions.” Commissioner Hay will be officially received at Toronto about the middle of December. He will haye control of the district known as Canada East, which covers the territory from Western Ontario to Labrador and Newfoundland. Commissioner Cunningham, his successor, has been commissioner in Java and chief secretary to the Army in Holland and South Africa. He is a native of Perth and has worked for the Army for 40 years.