PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 208, 3 September 1935, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. P. Endea.n leaves for the south by the Limited to-night.

Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., of Wellington, is visiting Hamilton. Archdeacon H. A. Hawkins arrived from the south by the Limited this morning. Mr C. H. Hewlett, general manager of the Canterbury (New Zealand) Seed Company, Ltd, is at the Grand Hotel. Professor W. Riddet, of Massey College, will be a passenger for the South from Hamilton by the Limited to-night. Mr. L. B. Duncan, of the Auckland Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, is visiting Whangarei in connection with the formation of a branch in Whangarei. Captain V. G. Webb, marine superintendent of the Union Steam Ship Company, visited Auckland yc-stcrday, and returned to Wellington by the evening express. Mr. W. P. Endean leaves for the South editor of the Christchurch "Star-Sun," has left Christchurch to take up his new position as editor of the '"Waikato Times." Mr. J. H. Meek has been appointed to the board of directors of Donaghy's Rope and Twine Company, Ltd., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. J. B. Shacklock. Mr. P. Sheffield. manager of Meivern's Household Stores, returned to Auckland by the Marama this morning. He has been on a business visit to England and the Continent. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, MI.C, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, has been elected a patron of the New Zealand Esperanto Association, which is the parent body of nine clubs having about 300 members in over 70 towns in the Dominion. One of New Zealand's notable veteran cricketers, Mr. Harry Siedeberg, of Dunedin, is on a visit to Auckland, fulfilling his duties as president of the New Zealand Billiards Control Association, in which capacity he is, attending the Dominion billiards championship tournament and conference of delegates. Holder of many records in club and'representative cricket in New Zealand, Mr. Siedeberg in his day was even more notable as a billiards player. He has won the New Zealand amateur billiards title four times, and holds the world's amateur losing hazards record break of 667. On the evening that he made the record he added another break of 300, and in his time he has made more breaks of 100 to 600 than any other amateur in the Empire. Impaired eyesight has caused him to abandon the game.