The Salvation Army was able to rent premises for their own use, on the corner of Keira and Victoria Street. Brother Murphy threw his energies into forming a proper brass band, and finally there were three instrumentalist, with more learning. The name of Tom Epps first appears, as the scribe who reports news to the War Cry. This was their first church building. They raised enough funds to buy this building in September 1912, at a cost of £498/14/2.
The corps officer when they bought this building was Adjutant William Hutchinson, the 41st officer to serve at Wollongong since 1886, and the first to serve for a period longer than 12 months.
