IN AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 7

IN AUSTRALIA.

■ TITLES CONFERRED. Federal List of New Year Honours. POLITICIANS PROMINENT. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, January 2. The following are included in the Federal list of New Year honours:— PRITY COUNCILLOR. John Greig Latham, Attorney-General of the Commonwealth. K.C.M.G. H. S. Gullett, Minister of Trade. C.M.G. Professor D. B. Copland, Professor of Commerce at* Melbourne University. S. G. McFarlane, Assistant Secretary to the Commonwealth Treasury. KNIGHTS BACHELOR. Hon. Walter Kingsmill, ex-President of the Senate. Dr. J. L. McEelvey, a leading Sydney surgeon. Mr. H. W. Gej p, chairman of the Commonwealth' Consultative Committee on Development. C.B.E. Mr. E. Abbott, Deputy Controller of the Department of Trade. Mrs. Alice Baker, philanthropist associated with the establishment of the Medical Research Institute at Alfred Hospit; , Melbourne. The State lists are as follows:— NEW SOUTH WALES. KNIGHT BACHELOR. S. Walder, late Lord Mayor of Sydney. C.M.G. Dr. Bradfield, engineer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Mr. L. Ennis, supervisor of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on behalf of the contractors. KING'S POLICE MEDAL. Superintendent W. J. McKay. Ex-Superintendent A. Leary. Messrs. C. G. Digby and J. Sorlie, late members of the fire commissioner's staff. VICTORIA. K.C.M.G. Senator H. S. W. Lawson.

C.B.E. Mrs. Norman Brookes. 0.8. E. Miss Edith Onians, newsboys' welfare worker. WEST AUSTRALIA. . C.B.E. Professor H. E. Whitfield, Vice-Chan-cellor of the University of West Australia. BRITISH HONOURS. I Sir Thomas Horder has been Physician-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales since 1923. . He is one of the most active members of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Sir Joseph Duveen is a prominent British artist and collector. He is a trustee of the National Gallery and numerous other famous organisations in the world of art. Sir Rennell Itodd has been prominent in the Diplomatic Service in Berlin, Athens, Rome, Paris, Zanzibar, Cairo and Stockholm. He was at one stage special envoy to King Menelik of Abyssinia. Sir Walter Runciman, like the late Earl of Inchcape, rose from cabin boy to shipping magnate, and now to the peerage. He is a Scotsman. In 1906 the Government appointed him to the Committee of Seamen and made him a baronet. Four years later he was elected president of the British Chamber of Shipping. He was Liberal M.P. for Hartlepool from 1914 to 1918. His son, Mr. Walter Runciman, is President of the Board of Trade in the National Cabinet. Field-Marshal Sir George Milne has had a distinguished military career, having received decorations from many countries. After service in the Sudan, South Africa aud France he became general in 1920 and field-marshal xa 1928. He was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1926. When he retired in November last he was succeeded by General the Earl of Cavan. Sir Owen Seaman recently retired from the editorship of "Punch," which post he had held for 26 years. He commenced life as a schoolmaster and professor of literature, and was called to the Bar in 1897. In that year he joined the staff of "Punch," and shortly after ytas made assistant-editor. 1 * ■ AUSTRALIAN TITLES. Mr. J. G. Latham had a brilliant legal career at the Victorian Bar. He served in the Great War, and took part in lhe 1918 Imperial Conference. In 1922 he entered the Federal House of Representatives, and three years later became Attorney-General under Mr. Stanley Bruce. In 1926 he headed the Australian delegation to the League of Nations. After' the defeat of Mr. Bruce as Prime Minister in 1929, he led the Nationalist Opposition, but when Mr. J. A. Lyons crossed over from Labour, Mr. Latham, relinquished party leadership in his favour. When the Nationalists were returned by an overwhelming majority a year ago, he became Attorney-General. Mr. H. S. Gullett, journalist, author and politician, worked on the staffs of the "Sydney Morning Herald," "Sydney Daily Telegraph," and "Sydney Sun" before being later elected to Parliament. Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, designer of the Sydney Bridge and of Sydney's electric railways, is a Queenslander. He has had a distinguished career in engineering in New South "Wales. The Hon. Walter Kingsmill, a South Australian, was first elected to Parliament in 1897. He has held many important positions in the State and Federal Parliaments. Professor I). B. Copland was born at Timaru 38 years ago, and graduated M.A. at Canterbury College in 1915. He was a master at Christchurch Boys' High School, and a lecturer at Canterbury College. For four years he was professor of economics in the University of Tasmania, and was appointed to the Melbourne University in 1924. He prepared an important economic review for the League of Nations in 1930. and last year was appointed to the special committee in New Zealand to consider the exchange problem and economic position. Mrs. Norman Brookes was connected with the work of the Red Cross when her husband, the noted tennis player, was Australian Red Cross Commissioner in Egypt in 1915-16. She later accompanied him:to the British headquarters of the Red Cross, and after the war continued her activities in Australia. Senator Ls.wson, after a brilliant Parliamentary career, was three times Premier of Victoria. He has also held th e po£ folios of Attorney-General, Solicitw ; General, Treasurer, Minister of Lanas, and of Public Instruction. .......