The home, which was the late residence of Mr Tayles, and contains nine or 10 rooms, is situated on a block of land consisting of 16½ acres, and lies on the hills a little to the north of Anderson Bay township.
An opening hymn was sung and prayer offered up by the Rev. C. Eaton, after which brief addresses were delivered by the Revs. A. Cameron and S. Griffith.
Mr Cameron said he would like to congratulate the community that, with the blessing of God, success had attended the efforts of the Salvation Army in securing the home.
It was not so very long ago that the late General Booth had gone out to take part in the work to which he and Mrs Booth felt they were called, and they had met with much abuse and opposition.
But now those days were past, and the Salvation Army had shown its power to do great service for the community and for the kingdom of God.
Too often the community left the erring ones to go their way until they became confirmed in their evil habits, and then the State had to do what it could to prevent them from doing further injury.
But it was very much better to prevent a downward course when these erring ones were beginning to go astray, and that, he understood, was the purpose of this institution.
It was to reach out a helping hand to such, and rescue them from an evil course that would be fraught with harm to themselves and general injury to the community that that place was being established.
It was a thing to thank God for that such an institution was being opened.
• The Naturalists' Field Club outing last Saturday afternoon was to St. Clair and the Ocean Beach, when 16 members assembled.
Commencing at the second beach, they found large numbers of crustaceans of several species amongst the rocks below high-water mark, and some time was spent in inspecting them and also the swarms of scavengers of different species to be found under the masses of seaweed cast up by the high tides.
Along the beach in the direction of Lawyer's Head a number of interesting objects were found, among them the beautiful little crustacean, phronima (N. Z.), which is cast ashore at times in thousands, and is usually snugly ensconced in the transparent barrel-shaped case cast off by a species of salpa.
The botanical members of the club also had a profitable afternoon amongst the seaside plants.
• A local tradesman had the unique experience yesterday of receiving a sum of money from a youth who had been employed by him some time ago, and who had taken various sums of money, totalling several pounds.
The father of the lad, a respected member of the Salvation Army who accompanied him, stated that he was happy to know that his son had been converted, but he (the son) felt that before he could make his peace with God, he must make his peace with the man he had wronged.
The tradesman kindly offered to hand the money back, but it was refused by the father, who said: "The money is yours, and that is all we care about.''
In reply to an offer to hand the money to him for the Salvation Army, he said: "I am not collecting for the Salvation Army, and I am delighted that my son has done the proper thing by you.''
The tradesman, while suspecting that pilfering was going on in his shop, did not know to what extent he had been a loser. - ODT, 9.5.1916.
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