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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 9

States the “Southern Cross Log,” tho Melanesian Mission magazine: “Miss Alice Wilson, known to many of our readers in Now Zealand, and a daughter of the Rev. Digby Wilson, who has been in the mission field for some time, will bo admitted to the •novitiate of tho little community known as Tho Sisters of the Cross, stationed at the Mission headquarters at Siota. Miss Wilson has been interested. in the Mission since her childhood and has met many of the missionaries who have viited New Zealand. Not infrequently early enthusiasm, fed perhaps by the accounts of workers bravely minimising their difficulties, and the faults of their friends, are followed by disappointment and discouragement when brought face to face with the reality. It is good, therefore, to heaT that Miss Wilson has found the fruit of other,’s ialvours in the field far greater than sho had ever anticipated, while yet so much remains to be done.” Miss Wilson is a New Zealand M.A., and 8.A., of Oxford, and is well known to Woodvillo' people also, her father having been vicar of Holy Trinity Church for some years-..