AUSTRALIA'S TROUBLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 823, 18 November 1929, Page 9

AUSTRALIA'S TROUBLES

"WORK MORE AND BORROW LESS” SALVATIONISTS ADVICE "Present social conditions are very difficult. There is <? good deal of poverty and a lot of unemployment. The remedy • n i little more hard work and a little less borrowing, for the people as well as the Government are living above their incomes." That is tin* opinion of Commission* r Charles Sow ton. of the Salvation ' Army, who lias left Australia after administering for three years an area | containing about halt tlie population [ of the Continent. ; "There is too much racing, gambling aud drinking." he told a Sun man tin morning. "Nevertheless, \usti ilia j are a tine, warm-hearted people v> ith much in their favour." j An important Salvation Army post in England is about to be taken over by Commissioner Sowton. an officer j of 16 years* standing, who has been ( in charge of the Army’s work iu New • South Wales and Queensland since j 1926. | Recently the commissioner pas: d through Auckland on his return from | the High Council deliberations with ! the late General Booth. Now h*- is | back again, a passenger on the Aorangi. He has boon appointed as head of the men’s social work all over Great j Britain—a prominent and responsible * position. I 'With Commission r Sow! n i Mi Sowton, his daughter Adjutant Anna I Sowton. liis son. Adjutant Charles : Sowton, and his daughter-in-law. i Adjutant Charles and Mrs Sowton. ; junior, are remaining in New Zealand ■ and will spend a holiday at the homo ! of Mrs. Sowt on’s father. LieutenantColonel Carmichael, who is in charge of the Palmerston North district. Adjutant Sowton is a member of tbe Army’s force in China, being officer* j in-charge of the Ting Chow district. Commissioner Sowton is about lo enter a field of activity which will be fresh to him for he has not been | stationed in England for the past it years. He has been in 2S countries j and speaks enthusiastically of the ; world-wide growth of Army work Dealing with conditions in tlie Salvation Army since the death of General Booth, the Commissioner said the organisation was going on generally speaking on the same lines, and the few necessary adjustments had beeu minor ones. The new general was well known and universally liked and had been received very well in i deed.