“ROBIN HYDE” DEAD
I LONDON FRIEND'S DISCOVERY. [BY CABLE I'BESS ASSN. COPYJiIGHT.j LONDON. August 2-1. The death has occurred of the New Zealand novelist, Miss Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde). An Independent Cable message stated that she was found by a friend' at her house in London. Death had apparently resulted from gas poisoning. Oxygen was administered without avail. The High Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr Jordan) visited Miss Wilkinson on Monday and found her depressed and anxious to return to China, where she spent some months in the war zone. Mr Jordan offered to help her return to New Zealand’. PARENTS IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON. August 21. Advice has been received from London of the death of Robin Hyde. Miss iris Wilkinson. the New Zealand authoress and journalist. Her parents reside in Wellington. Her adventures in China, during the past two years, I which nearly cost her her life will be recalled.
At the time of her death, Miss Wilkinson was under contract to publish two more novels.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1939, Page 2
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