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Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 April 1935, Page 4

ing A advises^MP^WMffiH of Mrs Rosa Mackworth Praed, Australian‘authoress, aged 84. Mr J. Caselberg, of Sussex Street;:.'!’*, will leave for Sydney this week, on a visit to His son, Mr Harry Caselberg. The engagement is announced between Marjorie, daughter of Mr and Mrs W. R. Taylor, Kohunui, Pahiatua, and Hector, son of Mr and Mrs R. C. Ellingham, Makairo, Pahiatua. Late yesterday afternoon tlie following radio message from the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, on board the Union liner Aorangi, was received by the Minister, Hon. E. A. Ransom: —“Iptet left Honolulu. Party all well.” At the P. and A. meeting at Carterton on Saturday, votes of sympathy were passed with Mr L. H. Smart in the death of his father, and with the relatives of the late Mr Adam McKay and of the late Mr Johnston. A letter is to be to Mr R. G. Kemble, expressing with him in his illness. Mr was welcomed back and congratulated on his recovery. He thanked the members for their letter of sympathy received during his illness. The many chess friends in Masterton of Mr Arthur Whitaker will regret to learn of his death, which took place suddenly at his home at Palmerston North on Saturday. The late Mr Whitaker was born at Bradford, Yorkshire, sixty years ago. By profession an engineer, he held many important positions in England, South Africa and New Zealand. He was a keen student of English literature, especially English poetry. In 1919 he revived the then defunct Palmerston North Chess Club, which, under his able and enthusiastic direction, grew to be one of the most flourishing chess centres in the Dominion.