HONOURED BY KING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 198, 4 June 1934, Page 5

HONOURED BY KING

LORD WAKEFIELD A VISCOUNT. WORK FOR CIVIL AVIATION* SEVERAL BARONS CREATED. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 3. The King's birthday honours include : Viscount. Baron Wakefield, governing director of Wakefield and Company, oil manufacturers, a generous helper of civil aviation. Barons. Lord Dalness. , Sir Hugo Hirst, chairman of the Empire Committee of the Feder.ation of British Industries. Mr Gerald Loder, chairman of the Southern Railway Company. Privy councillor. Mr R. A. Eden, Lord Privy Seal. Knight Bachelor. Dr Grafton Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy in the University of London. Baronet. v Sir Julien Calm, chairman of the National Birthday Trust Fund. Knight Grand, Cross of British Empire. Sir Alan Anderson, president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Sir John Reith, director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation. AUSTRALIAN RECIPIENTS. WOMAN FLYER HONOURED. : SYDNEY, June 3. I The honours; conferred upon Australians on the occasion of the birth' day of his Majesty the King include the following:— Order of St Michael and St George. Knight Commanders (K.C.M.G.). Mr Claude H. Reading, chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board. Mr John C. McPhee, a former Premier of Tasmania. \ Commanders (C.M.G.). Mr William James Clemens, of the Commonwealth Public Service , Board. Lieut.-Colonel Leslie Miltides Mul- . • len, D. 5.0., of Hobart, president of the Tasmanian branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia. Mr Henry Arthur Pitt, Director of Finance in the Victorian Treasury. Order of British Empire. Knight Commander (K.8.E.). Mr Philip H. Goldfinch, general manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. Member (M.8.E.). Mrs H. Bonney, the first woman to fly from Australia to England. Commanders (C.8.E.). Colonel Harold Arthur Cohen, ','M.L.C., Honorary Minister in the Victorian Government. Knight Bachelor (K. 8.). Mr Robert Knox, chairman of the Associated Chambers of Com- - merce. Mr Justice David Gilbert Ferguson, late Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Mr Harold Gengoult Smith, Lord Mayor of Melbourne and chairman of the Centenary Celebrations Council. TWO CONFERRED IN FIJI. This Day, 11.45 a.m.) SUVA, This Day. The birthday honours include the following:— < > Knight Bachelor—Captain Maxwell Anderson, R.N., Chief Justice of Fiji. , Member of the Order of the British Empire—Mr Norman Casey, Superintendent of Prisons, Fiji.