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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 186, 16 November 1910, Page 8

Speaking of the intentions of the Salvation Army in the very near future, Commissioner Hay, the territorial commander, says: "At the moment my hands are full, and my devoted staff are equally busy with the many, many pressing demands of the work. Almost immediately we open a new shelter for women in Melbourne, a cheap popular home for respectable women in Sydney, a men's home in Auckland, enlarged inebriates' home for men at Roto-Roa Island, and a home for women inebriates at Pakatoa, New Zealand. In addition to the projects referred to there will be the launching of an extensive camnaign which my heart has been set upon." James Leach, a negro, who used to work in the Clendenning Handkerchief Mills at Passaic, New Jersey, has just made £13,000 by his invention for improving the phonograph. He was considered t<# be an expert mechanic, and used to tell his friends that he was sure he could improve the tone of the machine. He perfected his ideas during his spare evenings, and the Edison Company, having heard of his invention, sent for him to New York, where ha demonstrated'its potentialities, with the result that company purchased hiß rights for the sum natged above. TRAVELLING IS A PLEASURE When you have checked your baggage through us. You have not bother at aft. We do all the work, collecting the baygage, checking it on, and delivering at the other end by the time you are. there. —New Zealand Express Company.