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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1978
CHIEF SECRETARY OPENS SALVATION ARMY WEEK
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MOST PEOPLE ASSOCIATED THE SALVATION ARMY WITH ITS CHEERFULNESS AND UNREMITTING EFFORTS TO HELP AND SAVE ANYONE IN DISTRESS - THE DOWN AND OUTS, THOSE WHO NO ONE ELSE BOTHERED ABOUT, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, MR. JACK CATER, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE SALVATION ARMY WEEK AT OCEAN TERMINAL, MR. CATER SAID PEOPLE KNEW TOO THAT MANY SEA-GOING FOLK HAD BEEN GRATEFUL TO FIND A HAVEN ON SHORE IN A STRANGE PORT- WHEN THEY SAW THE SALVATION ARMY HOSTEL SIGN THEY KNEW THAT THEY HAD FOUND SHELTER AND KINDNESS.
+OTHERS ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE REASON TO BLESS THE ARMY FOR TRACING MISSING RELATIVES — THE SALVATION ARMY CONTINUES TO SEARCH, AND SO OFTEN SUCCESSFULLY, WHEN OTHER AGENCIES HAVE GIVEN UP,+ MR. CATER SAID. YET OTHERS ONLY REMEMBER THE SALVATION ARMY WHEN THEY WISH TO DISPOSE OF UNWANTED CLOTHES OR FURNITURE.+
MR. CATER SAID THE SALVATION ARMY WAS TO BE FOUND IN MANY PARTS OF THIS TERRITORY IT OPERATED 15 CORPS CENTRES, EIGHT NURSERIES, SEVEN KINDERGARTENS, FIVE PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND FOUR HOMES FOR THE AGED, IN ADDITION TO CRECHES, YOUTH CENTRES, A BOYS' HOME AND A GIRLS' HOME. THERE WAS A SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR NEARLY 1,000 CHILDREN AT TZE WAN SHAN AND A YOUTH CAMP AT MA WAN.
SOON, A NEW HOME FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED WOULD COME INTO BEING AT LAI KING, SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO LOOK AFTER 100 RESIDENTIAL YOUNG FOLK ́AND ALSO TO PROVIDE DAY CARE TRAINING PROGRAMMES. THIS NEW HOME WOULD REPLACE THE ONE ON CHEUNG CHAU.
EXTENDED NURSERY SERVICES WERE PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR, IN PARTICULAR AT WO CHE IN SHA TIN AND THERE WOULD ALSO BE INCREASED PLACES IN THE HOMES FOR THE AGED.
+CLEARLY, HERE IN HONG KONG, MEMBERS OF THE ARMY WELL AND TRULY LIVE UP TO GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH'S CLAIM THAT SALVATIONISTS ARE THE SERVANTS OF ALL',+ MR. CATER SAID.
MR. CATER SAID THE SALVATION ARMY WEEK WAS INTENDED TO TURN A SPOTLIGHT ANNUALLY ON THE WORK OF THE HONG KONG COMMAND OF THE SALVATION ARMY. FOR ONE WEEK EACH YEAR THE ARMY HELD A SERIES OF PUBLICITY EVENTS TO ENSURE THAT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE WERE MADE AWARE OF THE SERVICES CARRIED OUT: CARRIED OUT WITH SUCH A QUIET AND DEDICATED EFFICIENCY THROUGHOUT ALL THE REST OF THE YEAR.
+AND PERHAPS I SHOULD HAVE SAID THROUGHOUT ALL THE YEARS* BECAUSE THIS YEAR MARKS THE 48TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SALVATION ARMY'S PRESENCE IN HONG KONG,+ MR. CATER SAID. FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY THEY HAD WORKED HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY FOLLOWING THEIR WELL-KNOWN SLOGAN WHERE THERE'S NEED, THERE'S THE SALVATION ARMY'.
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