SALVATION ARMY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 85, 14 April 1904, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY.

SCHEME TO DEPORT THE ' SUBMERGED TENTH." LONDON. April 12. '■' General" Booth, head of the Salvation Army, is organising an Imperial labour bureau with the object of sending emigjra'nta from the,'"sul)rnerged tenth" districts to those Quarters where they are most need- . ed. To develop this scheme a sum of £1,000,000 will be required. He hopes the British and Canadian Governments will subscribe £50,000 each, anil the Australian and South African States similar sums. The " General " visits Australia in a few months' time, with the object of entering into negotiations with the various Seate Governments. AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVES' OPINIONS. (Received April 30, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 13. Hon. H. Copeland, Agent-General t lor New South Wales, interviewed, £ ; regarding General Booth's proposals, said that the Sftlvationists ought to begin with the unemployed, a considerable sprinkling of whom there was ready in Australia, owing to the drought. Australia was willing to give facilities to the industrious who saved .something to settle on the land; but on no account would she have the Motherland's derelicts. Hon. Sir Horace Tozer, Queensland AfjonW3eneral, interviewed, Baid that if the vicious and criminal of the "suhpnergvd'' elements were omitted the scheme would be all right. The colonies wanted the best the » "Motherland could sent, lie advised the Salvationists to distribute those approved by the representatives of the colonies ; but any attempt to convey thither criminals, wastrels, and the vicious would be strongly resisted in Australia. , AN ARMY CONFERENCE. . LONDON, April 12. A conference of Salvationists from all parts of the workl will shortly be held in a huge structure, which is being erected on vacant land in the Strand'.