PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Koshnitsky, chess master, of Australia, and Mr F. K. Kelling, of the N.Z. Chess Association, are at present visiting Masterton, and are staying at the Midland Hotel. Mr V.. W. Graham, of Waterfalls, Eketahuna, who has been a patient in the Hobson Street Hospital, Wellington, has sufficiently recovered to be able to return home. The friends of Mr and Mrs G. Harris (nee Miss Esme Brockett) will regret to learn of the death of their infant daughter, which occurred at Palmerston North on Monday. Mr Rodney Kinross White, son of Mr W.. Kinross White, Omaranui, will sail for England in the Rangitata from Auckland next week, and will enter the colonial ministry service next year. In the meantime he will spend about a year at Oxford University.

The death occurred on Saturday of Dr Kenneth Frederick Mulcock," aged 33, says a Press Association message from Rotorua. Dr Mulcock, who had for some time been feeling the effects of over-work, remained in bed on Saturday. During the temporary absence of his wife he died, a book which he had been reading being found lying open beside him. An inquest was opened yesterday for identification purposes and adjourned sine die. The funeral of the late Mr Richard Costello took place this morning at the Masterton Cemetery. At the church a service was held, the Rev. Father N. Moore, celebrating mass. At the graveside the ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Father Harnett, of Stratford, assisted by .the Rev. Fathers N. Moore and Dillon. The pall-bearers were Messrs J. Savage, W. Brady, W. McArley, W. Shipley, J. Robinson and A. Talbot.

The death has occurred at Tauranga of Mr Edmund Lowther Broad, who was for many years a resident of Wellington. The eldest son of the late Judge Lowther Broad, Nelson, he was educated at Nelson College, and later moved to Wellington, where he was associated with the firms of Johnston and Co., Ltd., and G. H. Scales, Ltd. Later he took up interests in flaxmilling in the Manawatu district, and from there he went to the Bay of Plenty as principal in a flaxmilling concern. He had resided in Tauranga for the last 14 years. He was a keen sportsman, and for some years was prominently connected with racing, as an owner, and also as a steward of the Manawatu Racing Club. Maniahera, a prominent hurdler some 20 years ago, raced in Mr Broad’s colours, and won numerous events. The late Mr Broad is survived by his widow and grownup family of three daughters and a son. Mesdames Ormond Cooper, Wellington, and formerly of Masterton, and G. O. Waddy, Clarence Bridge, are sisters, and there are five brothers— Messrs C. H. Broad, Nelson, J. H. C. Broad, Marto i, and George, Nowell and P. B. Broad, Wellington.