HONOURS LIST.

Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 8

HONOURS LIST.

CONFERRED BY KING. Sir Ernest Rutherford Raised To Peerage. TWENTY DOMINION KNIGHTS. (British Official Wireless.; RUGBY, January I. The chief honours conferred by King George at the New Year are as follow:— PEERAGES. Sir John Kindley, commercial adviser to the Department of Mines. Sir Ernest Lamb, a former member of Parliament, and ' member of the Corporation of the City of London. Sir William Plender, past-president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, who has presided over many committees and Royal Commissions on commercial and financial questions. Sir Ernest Rutherford, the physicist and authority on radio activity, a former President of the Royal Society. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Mr. Thomas Kennedy, chief Labour Whip. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Transport. Sir George Perley, former Canadian High Commissioner and now Minister without portfolio in the- Canadian Government. BARONETCIES. Sir John Bradford, president of the Royal College of Physicians. Mr. Ernest Debenham,' a director of Lloyds' Bank. Sir Richard Gregory, the astronomer. and editor of "Nature." Sir George May,.a member of the coun- ■ cil of the Institute of Actuaries. Mr. George Roberts, who, "under the .pseudonym- of "Audax," gave £100,000* to hospitals as a thanksgiving offer for the recovery of the health of His Majesty. ORDER OF MERIT. Admiral Sir Charles Madden, for his distinguished- services in peace and war. Mr. Philip Sheer, in recognition of his position as a painter and teacher in the art. KNIGHTHOODS.

Mr. Norman Angell, writer. Mr. William Goodchild, secretary of the British delegation to the Reparation Commission. Dr. Graham Little, member of Parliament for London University. Mr. John McEwen, Principal of the .Royal Academy of Music. Mr. Conrad Naef, Accountant-General to ■the Navy. .' ■ \ :."-,''..'. Mr. David Owen, general manager of the Port of London Authority. ;"• Mr. Hugh Robertson, founder of j the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.. Professor W. Ro.thenstein, Principal of the Royal College, of Art. . - Mr. James Sexton, Labour member of .' Parliament.^' Mr. Robert Young, Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons. Colonel Weston jarvis, chairman of the Council •of the Royal ' Empire Society. In .the general list there are more. than 20 other knighthoods for the Dominions, India and the colonies. ORDER OF THE BATH. G.C.B. General Sir Robert Whingham, the King's aide-de-camp general. Sir Oswyn Murray, permanent secre-! ' tary to the Admiralty. K.C.B. Vice-Admiral Kelly. Engineer Vice-Admiral Skelton. Mr. Frank Smith, secretary to the Royal Society. ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA. / G.C.SX The Maharajah of Udaipur. The Maharajah of Kolhapur. K.C.SJ. The Prime Minister of Nepal, Maharajah General Shamsher Jang. ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE. G.C.M.G. His Highness Tiianku Muhammad, of the Federated Malay States. Sir Francis Lindley, Ambassador at Lisbon. Sir Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs. K.C.M.G. Mr. Arthur W. Hill, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Dr. Montague John Rendall, chairman j .'-' of the School Empire Tour Committee. Sir Harry Batterbee, Assistant Secretary to the Dominions Office since 1925, and Political Secretary to the Duke of York during his tour of Australia and New Zealand. ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER. G.dv.6. The Earl of Albeimarlc. Lord Woolavingtcn, who won the Derby in 1922 and 1926. I ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. D.B.E. Lady Aberdeen, president of the International Council of Women. K.B.E. Mr. Wilmott Lewis, the "Times" correspondent at Washington. C.B.E. Miss Major, head of Girton College, Cambridge. Miss Martindale, vice-president of _ the Medical Women's International Association* Prebendary Rudolf, founder of the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society. Professor Sidney. Russ, for work on -radium. .. Lady McMillan, for philanthropic ser- - vices in Kenya.

COMPANIONS OF HONOUR: C.H. Mrs. Swanwick, former British delegate to the League of Nations and president of the Women's International, League. Miss Walker, founder of the Medical Women's Association.