BELATED HONOURS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 26, 1 February 1937, Page 7

BELATED HONOURS

THE NEW YEAR LIST. Dual Elevation for Queen Elizabeth.

SIB HARRY McGOWAN'S RANK.

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 12 noon.) LOXDOX, January 31. The New Year Honours List, published a month late this year as a sequel to King Edward VIII.'s abdisation, includes the following:— ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER. Grand Master and Dame Grand Cross. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. VISCOUNT. Lord Greenwood of Radnor, formerly Sir Hainar Greenwood, Canadian-born solicitor and M.P. BARONS. Sir Harry McGowan, chairman and managing director of Imperial Chemical Industries.

Sir Arthur Michael Samuel, Bart., M.P. (Con., Farnham, Surrey), economist, ' commissioner, author and former j junior Cabinet Minister. i BARONET. Sir Derwent Hall Caine, Kt. Bach., son j of the famous novelist and former M.P. (Lab., Everton. Liverpool). ' KNIGHT BACHELOR. Adrian Ccdric Boult, composer and music director of the 8.8.C. ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA. K.C.S.I. (Knight Commander). ' Sir Osbcrne Arkell Smith, governor of i the Reserve Bank of India. * ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. I 0.8. E. ij (Officer). 1 Henry Creni Curmi, Maltese Commis i sionei" in Australia. ! AIR FORCE CROSS. > Squadron-Leader Swain, record altitude • - flVer of last year. ' Captain C. F. Uwins, record altitude - flyer of 1932. . ' The Duke of Gloucester has been appointed an Air Vice-Marshal of the Royal Air Force and personal A.D.C. to ' the King. IN AUSTRALIA.

Painter and Poet Among Selections. POLITICS AND BUSINESS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Following is a list of New Year Honours conferred on Australians:— PRIVY COUNCILLOR. Robert Gordon Menzies, Commonwealth Attorney-General. . ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. C.M.G. Hubert Frazer East, of Brisbane, foi many years State president of th< Returned Soldiers and Sailors League. William Rupert McCourt, Clerk of th< New South Wales Legislative As i seinbly. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. K.B.E. (Knight Commander). J Herbert Sydney Hudd, M.P. I C.B.E. J (Commander). I Surgeon-Captain William James Car I Director of Medical Services, Aus I tralian Navy. ' Donald Mackay, of Sydney, explorer. C. A. Norris, of Melbourne, genen manager of the National Mutu; Life Association of Australasia. D.B.E. (Dame). Mrs. Mary GilmoreJ writer and poet, j 0.8. E. 1 (Officer). Mrs. Mary Daly, prominently associated with Roman Catholic charities. ' ORDER OF THE BATE. i i C.B. (Companion). Major-General John Dudley Lavarack, Chief of the General Staff, Aus- ' tralian Military Forces. KNIGHT BACHELOR. J. R. Cain, Lord Mayor of Adelaide. H. W. Lord, chairman of directors of the Bank of Adelaide. Henry John Sheehan, of Canberra, Secretary to the Treasury. Arthur Streeton, landscape artist. Alexander Anderson Stewart, of Melbourne, consulting engineer and j company director. i KING'S POLICE MEDAL. ; John Thomas Wilkins. of Melbourne, chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board.