THE SALVATION ARMY

Temuka Leader, Issue 2403, 24 September 1892, Page 3

THE SALVATION ARMY

Af th° HHlvution Amv TYwikib pH Ttoflwtey .*•* 'r!,SSI Morpiop. of the V' * iib > : ‘i. ’ i *. • ~i corns, ;,; ivo k «iu , V U>* ■ address on army wot a, a brief review of the first year's work, showing statistics of the General s social scheme? ! I aviny been for some an officer in the social wing in this colony he dwelt on the Hescuo Work, Enquiry, aud Miasing Friends Department, showing tlie advantages of the Salvation Army Labour Bureau when in existence. After dwelling on the Food and Shelter Depots in tlie large centres of England, the following were some of the statistics given . Number of meals supplied by Cheap Food Depots : Free ‘ (Special Fund), 250,000; one farthing mainly to children, 06,555; one halfpenny, 1,007,866 ; Id,2d, 3d, and 4d, .1,161,727? Making a total number of meals of cooked food 2, 1 606,548. Total number of cheap lodgings for homeless at Id and 2d per night, 507,000. Total number of men received . into factories, 2080; total amount realised

of goods manufactured in the labour factories and by various industries frnneotiou with the Darkest England scheme, £15,191; Total number of unemployed registered at the Army Labour Bureau, 15,69/ ; number of men for whom employment (temporary or permanent) has been obtained,) 4,863; rfuxhber of ex-criminals received into first prison home, 200; number of applications for lost persons, 2354 ; irambers of lost persons (chiefly woman) found, 605; number of women and girls received into Rescue Homes durinl the year, 1,484; number of visits to families in the slums, 445,170 ; number of sick persons cared for by slum ofiicers 10 904- total accommodation for destitutes’exclusive of Farm Colony, 4,000. The remainder of the address dwelt mi the City Colony—first with its fi ewood chopping, and from which men are drafted to the salvage wharf at Battersea, where men are engaged in sorting the refuse of London, from which things are fnanufactured for the Labor Factories; secondly, on the Farm Colony at Hadleigh, the men being selected by an experienced overseer from the City Colony on special conditions. From the Farm Colony when the Over-the-Sea Colony is formed men would be sent who would be proved worthy of trust and of good character. Captain Mercier quite cleared the minds of his audience that candidates for the Over-the-Sea Colony would not be of the criminal typ.e. After a brief outline of the working of the Match Factory, showing that Army matches were free from poison—in that whereas there was phosphorous paste used in other factories, which caused workers to suffer fx-om necrosis, or match makers leprosy, which eats away the jaw bones, workers in the Darkest England Factory were free from this and received better wages. Although the attendance owing to the inclement state of the weather was small those present were greatly interested. General Booth intends to raise £50,000 through Self Denial efforts for the extension of the Social Scheme this year.