OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 11

OBITUARY

MRS ROBERT RILEY (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. The death occurred to-day of Mrs Robert Riley, second wife of Mr R. Riley, of the Prime Minister’s Department, after a short and severe illness following a long spell of indifferent health. Mrs Riley was widely known as Winifred Tennant, authoress and noetess. She was in the middle forties and for a long period had been a contributor to well-knoWn periodicals published in Australia and New Zealand. She won several short story competitions and her work is included in anthologies of the best stories by New Zealand writers. Only quite recently she had a short story published in the Manchester Guardian. For three years she was editress of the children’s page of the Auckland Sun, writing under die name of “Dawn Lady.” Just before her serious illness she had almost completed a novel, having only four chapters to write.

Numerous messages of sympathy were received by Mr Riley. The following telegram was sent by the Prime Minister (Mr Savage): “1 am leenly grieved to hear that your wife, and my friend, has passed away, and I hasten to tender to you and the relatives <he heartfelt sympathy of Mr and Mrs French and myself in your and their bereavement. I feel privileged to have seen her personally before she went away from us sc bravely.”