THE KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 7

THE KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST.

SERVICE RECOGNISED Eminent Personages in All Walks of Life. LORD BLEDISLOE ELEVATED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) EUGBY, June 2. The Silver Jubilee year of the King's reign, also holds His Majesty's 70th birthday, and on this occasion the list of birthday honours conferred is more comprehensive 'than usual. It contains names of persons who have rendered eminent service in Britain and throughout the Empire in politics, industry, the professions, arts and sciences, the fighting and Civil Service, and in social work. Leading members of the Labour and Liberal Opposition in Parliament, and of the Trade Union, movement figure in the list, which includes:— VISCOUNT. Lord Bledisloe. BARONS. Sir Arthur Balfour. E. C. Grenfell. Sir William Peake Mason. Sir George May, chairman of the. Import Duties and Advisory Committee. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Treasurer to the King. Sir Clive Wigram, Private Secretary to the King. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Major Attlee, deputy-Leader of the Labour party. Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport. Captain Bourne, deputy-Chairman of the House of Commons. BARONETS. Sir' Burton Chadwick, founder of the Company of .Master Mariners. Colonel Morley Headlam. Sir Henry Jackson. Sir Crawford McCullagh, Lord Mayor of Belfast. William Mollison, curist and laryngologist, Guy's Hospital. Walter Russell Rea, Chief Whip of the Opposition Liberal party. Sir Arthur Rose. J. R. Starkey. Evan Williams, president of the Mining Association. ORDER OF THE BATH. Admiral Sir J. Kelly. Admiral Sir William Fisher. KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS. General Sir J. Gathor Hardy. Air Chief Marshal Sir E. Ellington. KNIGHTS COMMANDERS. Sir Edward Harding, Permanent UnderSecretary for the Dominions. ORDER OF MERIT. • John Masefield, poet laureate. I Dr. Vaughan Williams, distinguished British composer. Sir F. Gowland Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins. G.C.M.G. Sir Henry Birchenough, South Africa. Sir W. T. White, of Canada. Sir John Maffey, Permanent UnderSecretary for the Colonies. Sir J. H. Reed. Viscount Chilston, British Ambassador at Moscow. K.C.M.G. Stephen Jaselee, librarian at the Foreign Office. Hugh Gurney, British Minister at Copenhagen. S. P. Waterlow, British Minister at Athens. H. E. Fass, public trustee of the Sudan Government. G. B. Sansom, Commercial Counsel, British Embassy at Tokyo. Marquess of Cambridge. J. C. C. Davidson. Sir Hugh Allen, musician. Sir Arthur Erskine. Sir Cooper Perry. ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER. Earl of Cromer. G.B.E. Sir George Newman, lately chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health. General Sir F. Ready, lately quarter-master-general. E. W. Beatty,. chancellor of McGill University, Canada. K.B.E. W. M. Citrine, general secretary, Trades Union Congress. D.B.E. Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, vice-president of the International Council of Women. Miss Rosalind Paget, for service to nursing. Duchess of Portland. KNIGHTS BACHELOR. Noel Ashbridge, chief engineer to the British Broadcasting Corporation. Charles Edwards, chief Labour Whip. Seymour Hicks, well-known actor-man-ager. Arthur Pugh. Harold Harmsworth. Professor Laidlaw, the pathologist. Bruce Richmond, editor of "The Times" literary supplement. W. Russell, keeper of the Royal Academy. Charles Leonard Woolley, distinguished archaeologist. There are also lists for the Dominions, India and the colonies and protectorates. COMPANIONS OF HONOUR. W. N. Bruce, pro-chancellor of the Universitv of Wales. Rev. Dr. John White, first moderator of the General Assembly of the United Church of Scotland. REGIMENTAL HONOURS. MARKING SILVER JUBILEE. LONDON, June 2. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee the King has approved of six Regiments in various Dominions enjoying the distinction of the word "royal." They include the Australian Ist Light Horse Regiment, which in future will be designated the Royal New South Wales Lancers, and the oth Battalion, which will be designated the Royal Melbourne Regiment. A similar honour is conferred upon two Canadian and two South African Regiments.