Olden-day transportation
Horse and cart was the mode of transport for many of the early years, and seemed to cause constant consternation! The photo on the right shows Major Annie Hoepper utilising the transport of the day in the 1940s. A Maclean Salvation Army history book entry in November 1926 states: sold the old slow horse and bought a much smarter one, so we named him Major. In a letter of tribute to retiring Corps Sergeant Major, Allan Cowling in 1985, Brigadier Gwen Cork (pictured right when Captain with her assistant, Lieutenant Ruby Carlyle) remembered an incident in 1940: the … Sunday afternoon with horse harnessed (not ‘Bluey’ who was off colour, but a borrowed young horse) we were ready to drive to your home for Sunday School, when two camels, led by a man, passed by. The horse took fright and bolted down the main street, the Lassie Captain in full fight after him and onlookers regretting that no camera was available! Turning the bank corner, homeward bound, the horse fell, breaking one sulky shaft and depositing the seat on the street. Over the hill, past the hospital he continued, reached his owner’s property, went through a fence and finally came to a halt near the house. ‘Yours truly’, still followed, exhausted, agitated and humiliated. That night I was unable to conduct the meeting due to a violent migraine.
