FOR MELANESIAN ISLANDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 10

FOR MELANESIAN ISLANDS

TWO MISSIONARIES MAKE FIRST TRIP SOUTHERN CROSS SAILS When the mission steamer Southern Cross sailed for Melanesia today she carried two missionaries who are making their first visit to the missionfields. Miss Alice Wilson, who comes from Palmerston, Otago, has spent some time in Auckland as a teacher at the Diocesan High School. On Friday she was given a farewell by the pupils of the school. Her first appointment is at Siota in the Solomon Islands, the mission headquarters, where she will take a six*months’ training course. It will be a year before Miss Wilson returns on her first furlough. The Rev. T. W. Edwards is the other missionary who is taking up his first post. 3-Ie will go to Raga in the Xew Hebrides. The Southern Cross will carry back to the fields a party of seven mission workers returning from furlough. The Rev. George West, Mr. Arthur Hoggcr, Mr. and Mrs. Freshwater, Miss Helen Fox, the Rev. R. Godfrey and Mrs. Godfrey are all returning to their stations. This morning a dismissal service was conducted at St. Mary’s, Parnell, by Archdeacon MacMuray. As it will be five months before the Southern Cross makes the journey again, she carried a large supply of books, foodstuffs, hardware and building materials for the mission islands.