NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 6

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

The New Year Honours that come to New Zealand are less interesting than in some previous years, but this does not mean that they are not deserved. Sir Alexander Gray, K.C., is one of the leaders of the New Zealand Bar; Sir William Perry is equally a leader in a staple industry, sheep-breeding, and has been busy in the direction of public societies and institutions; Mr. R. S. Forsyth has been prominent in the meat .trade; Mr. J. Marchbanks is a leading civil engineer; and Mr. G. P. Newton has served in the Civil Service for some forty years. The English and Australian lists contain the names of several men whose work is known beyond their own countries. Art is honoured in the person of Sir Joseph Duveen, who has been a most generous patron of painting. Artists will value more than his gifts of money for gallery building his efforts on behalf of young and struggling painters. Often there is so much money for old masters, and so little for the painter who has to live. Joseph Duveen was the first picture dealer to become a trustee of the National Gallery, and probably he is the first to be raised to the Peerage. Literature is not very conspicuous in the Honours List, but Sir Owen Seaman is there, a baronet now on his retirement from the editorship of "Punch," and so is Rcnnell Rodd, poet and essayist as well as diplomatist. This very cultivated ex-ambassador will -be an ornament to the House of Lords. In the Australian list one notices Professor Copland, a New Zealandcr, who has been conspicuous in the reconstruction of Commonwealth finance, and Sir Henry Gullett, whose services as Minister of the Crown, may be a less lasting monument than his work as the official historian of the Palestine campaign.