Devoted L.M.S. Teacher's
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Death.
From a Special Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Feb. 4.
AFTER a three-weeks’ illness, Miss Emmie Winifred Riley, 8.A., of the London Missionary Society, died in Port Moresby on January 14, aged 31.
Born in South Australia, Miss Riley graduated at the Sydney University, and then joined the L.M.S. in 1931, serving as leader of the kindergarten depart ment and head of the school for Papuan girls. In a brief period of six years, she left her mark for good on her colleagues and the Papuans alike. She was a most able teacher and trainer of teach ers. Her school at Port Moresby had a tone about it that could only have been achieved by a combination of profes sional skill and high Christian idealism.
An evidence of Miss Riley’s devotion and ability is to be seen in the produc tion of a book of Sunday School Les son Notes for Papuan Teachers, most of the work for which she did during her last furlough. Native girls whom she trained are taking their place in the Papuan educational system, and show evidence that they mean to carry out in their village schools the ideals she kept steadfastly before them.