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Kōrero: Salvation Army

The Army in action: new training school, 1914

Flags and cheering fill the air as the Salvation Army's training school in Aro Street, Wellington, opens in April 1914. This building housed the college where officers of the Army received practical and spiritual training for their work. It closed in the 1970s and a new Salvation Army training college was built in Upper Hutt. In 2019 the Aro Street building was used by the School of Practical Philosophy.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)

Reference: 1/1-020372-G

by Sydney Charles Smith

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Mark Derby, Salvation Army – The Salvation Army’s early days, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/29350/the-army-in-action-new-training-school-1914 (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 23 March 2011.