Death Of Pioneer
p. 55 · Read in the full issue
Missionary
Miss Kathleen Deck
THE death occurred on July 6 at Ash field, near Sydney, of Miss Kathleen Deck, one of the founders of the South Seas Evangelical Mission.
She was a New Zealander who was well known in the Solomon Islands for her beneficent work among the natives.
Miss Deck was born in Invercargill in 1866. As a girl and young woman, she worked with her aunt, Miss Florence Young, in North Queensland for the betterment* of native labourers brought from the islands of the Pacific to work on the sugar plantations.
From 1907 until a few years ago she had lived in the Solomons. While there she reduced two of the native languages to writing, and wrote lesson books in the vernacular and in English. She also trained others for educational and wel fare work among the islanders.
Miss Deck had the gift of gaining the confidence and later the affection of the natives. She played a big part in estab lishing schools for the natives, and helped in the translation of books, hymns and scriptures into native languages.