WOMAN MINISTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 14

WOMAN MINISTER

ACCIDENT ON SHIP

VISIT TO WELLINGTON

When the Remuera was about one week's sailing from New Zealand, one passenger, the Rev. F. Dorothy Wilson, B.Litt, who was on her way to Wellington to fulfil preaching engagements in several of the city's churches, fell down a stairway and suffered concussion. . Miss Wilson was still confined to her cabin when the Remuera arrived at Wellington yesterday and will not be able to land until Tuesday at Lhe earliest. Although Miss Wilson was forbidden by the doctor to subject herself to the strain of an interview, she chatted for a few minutes with a "Post" reporter and said that she hoped to be well enough to take the evening service at St. John's Presbyterian Church next Sunday. She said she had slipped on the stairway and, in falling, struck her head hard enough to cause considerable concussion. She had been in Auckland in 1933 but had not paid a previous visit to Wellington. Miss Wilson was formerly secretary of ihe Young People's Department of the Presbyterian Church of England, and assistant minister in the historic church of Carr's Lane, Birmingham, made famous by the ministries of Dale and Jowett. As the Presbyterian Church does not accept women as ministers, Miss Wilson was ordained in the Congregational Church, but she has done a considerable amount of preaching in Presbyterian Churches. She is one of the few women ordained xo the ministry. Miss Wilson is also the writer ot weil-known books on religious education, one of which elicited great praise from Canon Streeter, who wrote the preface to it. She will be in Wellington for some weeks.