OBITUARY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21185, 4 November 1938, Page 7

OBITUARY

MRS ROBERT RILEY By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 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 Hennant, the authoress and poetess. She was in the middle forties. For a long period she had been a contributor to well-known periodicals published In Australia and New Zealand and she won several short story competitions. Her work is included in the 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 the 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: “I am deeply grieved to hear that your wife and my friend has passed away, and I hasten to tender to you and her relatives the 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 so bravely.”