NEW YEAR HONOURS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 68, 2 January 1936, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS

FOUR NEW PEERS CREATED. ONE ORDER OF MERIT AWARDED GENERAL FREYBERG, C.B. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, January 1, The New Year Honours List includes one appointment to the Order of Merit, and the creation of two new viscounts and four new peers. The King has conferred the Royal Victorian Chain on H.R.H. the Duke of Kent. The Duke of York has been promoted Lieu-tenant-General in the Army, Vice-Ad-miral in the Navy, and Air Marshal in the Air Force. The general honours list includes 34 knighthoods, of whom four are members of Parliament, and seyeral are distinguished workers in academic - and cultural fields. A number of honours are conferred on the occasion of the centenary of the Great Western Railway. Many honours are conferred on women. The chief names in the list are:— ORDER OF MERIT (0.M.) Field-Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, and member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India since 1930. VISCOUNTS. Lord Hanworth, lately Master of the Rolls, a position which ho held from 1923. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Trenchard, who has just retired from the position of Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force. BARONIES. Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, president of the federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in 1931. Sir James Comer Berry, Bart., Deputy chairman of the Amalgamated Press Ltd., of Allied Northern Newspapers, of “Daily Sketch” and “Sunday Graphic.” Sir Thomas Catto, deputy-chairman of the Mercantile Bank of India, London, and director of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, London. Sir lan Macpherson, P.C., K.C., formerly Secretary of .State for War and Secretary for lerland. ORDER. OF THE BATH. Companion (C. 8.) Major-General B. C. Freyberg, V.C., C.M.G., D.S.O. and two bars, who was horn in London, but educated in New Zealand at Wellington College. He gained his V.C. while with the 29th division in France.

ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. - ' GEORGE. Knight Grand Cross (G.C.M.C.) Sir Robert Clive, British Ambassador at Tokio. Knight Commander (K.C.M.G.) Mr Roland Campbell, British Minister at Belgrade. Mr Hughe Knatohbuil-Hugessen, British Minister at Teheran. Companion (C.M.G.) Mr Reginald Leeper, C’.B.E. counsellor, Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service. r ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER. Knight Grand Gross (G.C.V.0.) The Duke of Buccleuch, a brother of the Duchess of Gloucester. ORDER Ob' THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Knight Grand Cross (G.8.E.) Sir Sidney Barton, K.C.V.0., British Minister at Addis Ababa. Knight Commander (K.8.E.) Mr A. W. (Keown Boyd, C.M.G., Director-General of the European Department of the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior. Dame Commander (D.8.E.) Miss Christabet Pankhurst, L 1.8., for pioneer political and social work for women. Commander (G.8.E.) Mr J. F. Marshall, honorary director of the British Mosquito Control Institute at Hayling Island. Miss Myra Hess, the pianist, for services to lpusic. Knight Bachelor (Kt.) Dr. H. J. Hetherington, Vice-Chan-cellor of Liverpool University. Professor A. Harden, emeritus proferror of bio-chemistry at London University. Dr. Percy Buck, Professor of Music at London University, who has been musical adviser to the London County Council. Mr Humphrey Milford, publisher of the. University of Oxford. Professor Alfred Zimmern, Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. Lieutenant-Colonel F. Shelmerdine, Director-General of Civil Aviation. Mr Walter Ernest Hargreaves, for services given in the scheme for a Government guarantee which enabled work on the. liner Queen Mary to he resumed. Mr James Norval, in recognition of his work for housing and town planning. Mr Ralph Cope, chief accountant of the Great Western Railway, who lias been in the service of tile company for 58 years. Son Gong-siang, who was one of seven Chinese who represented the Chinese

peopje of the Straits Settlement at the coronation of King Edward, COMPANION' OF HONOUR. Professor John Dover Wilson, Professor of Literature at Edinburgh University, a distinguished educationist and an authority on Shakespeare, ROYAL RED CROSS. Miss Ethel Green, lady superintendent of Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India. THE AUSTRALIAN LIST. SYDNEY, January 1. Among the Australian New Year Honours are the following:— ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. CFORCE. Knight Commander (K.C.M.G.) The Hon. Frederick R. Jordan, Chief Justice of New South Wales. Companion (C.M.C.) Mr John Spence, Auditor-General of New South Wales. Colonel A. M. C'udmore, Dean of Dentistry at Adelaide University. Mr R. B. W. MoCornas, of Melbourne, who was a director of the Commonwealth Bank Board from 1924 until a few months ago. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Knight Commandier (K.8.E.) Mr C. W. Connibeare, of Melbourne, who devoted a large portion of his time to charitable and philanthropic work. He and his brothers have contributed more than £150,000 to hospitals and similar institutions since 1912. The Hon. A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C, (N.S.W.) one of the Founders of the Country Party. Dr. Hlfgh B. Devine, an eminent Melbourne surgeon. The Hon. H. A. Parsons, acting Chief Justice of South Australia. Mr W. R. Carpenter, or Sydney, founder and managing director of W. R. Carpenter, Ltd;, merchants island traders and ship owners. For many years he has taken a keen, interest in welfare among children. Dr. E. S. Cunningham, of Melbourne, editor of the “Argus,” from 1906 to 1928, at present chairman of the Edwin Wilson share in the “Argus” partnership.