HONOURS LIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 130, 4 June 1934, Page 7

HONOURS LIST.

TITLES CONFERRED. Services to Country and Empire Recognised. IiORD WAKEFIELD ELEVATED. United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 3. Tlie British list for the King's Birthday honours includes the following names: — VISCOUNT. Lord Wakefield, oil magnate. PEERS. Sir Hugo Hirst, industrial magnate. Mr. Gerald Loder, politician. PRIVY COUNCILLOR. Mr. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal. BARONET. Sir Julien Cahn, cricketer and landowner. KNIGHT. Professor Grafton Elliot Smith, eminent . anthropologist. G.B.E. Sir Alan G. Anderson, shipping and industrial magnate. Sir John Reith, Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Viscount Wakclield is one of the bestknown and wealthiest peers, Britain. Head of tlie oil firm of C. C. Wakefield, Ltd., he has been described as "the fairy godfather of aviation" He has assisted numerous world (light;?, including those of Miss Batten, Miss Amy Johnson, C. W. A. Scott, and many more. He was Lord Mayor of London from 1015-10. He was knighted when Sheriff of London in 1908, created a baronet in 1917, and a peer in 1930. He purchased in 1931 the famous Howard Grace Cup for £11,000, and presented it to the nation. Sir Hugo Hirst, now a peer, is one of Britain's foremost industrialists and founder and present chairman and managing director of the General Electric Company'. Ho was one of four men selected to report on progress of trade in Australia by means of an economic mission in 1928-29. Mr. Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, fourth son ot' the late Sir Robert Loder, Bt., M.P., is another prominent industrialist. He is chairman of the Southern Railway. He married Lady Louise de Vcre Bcnuelerk, eldest daughter of the Duke of St. Albans in 1890. He has 1/een an MP., a private secretary to prominent political figures, and a Junior Lord of tlic Treasury. One of his twin daughters is married to Lord Stratlicona. Mr. Anthony Eden, the new Privy Councillor, was Foreign Under-Secretary from 1931 to January last, when lie was appointed Lord Privy Seal, and in this capacity has taken _ a large share in European affairs. He is a British delegate to the League of Nations and the Disarmament Conference. Last February lie carried out an official tour of the main European capitals for brief parleys on disarmament and world affairs on behalf of the British Government. Sir Grafton Elliott Smith, a native of Grafton, New South Wales, is the most eminent authority in the British Empire on anthropology. Educated at Sydney and Cambridge Universities, he has done valuable research in Egypt and Peking, where he declared certain human remains to bo something like a million years old. He has received many academic honours in Britain and Europe, and js now professor of anatomy at the University of London.