KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS CONFERRED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 134, 9 June 1938, Page 7

KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS CONFERRED.

BRITISH LIST. Two Viscounts and Two New Barons. SIR JOSIAH STAMP ELEVATED. British Official Wireless. (Received 12 noon.) LOXDOX. June 8. The King's Birthday Honours list includes the following:— VISCOUNTS. Lord Stonehaven, D.5.0., late of the diplomatic service and former chairman of the Conservative party. Lord Weir, managing director of G. and J. Weir, Limited, Glasgow, and former Secretary of State and president of the Air Council. BARONS. Sir Josiah Stamp, chairman of the London. Midland and Scottish Railway, director of the Bank of England, and member of the Economic Advisory Committee.

Mr: Vivian Hugh Smith, governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corpora- | < tion and lord lieutenant of the! County of Oxford. PRIVY COUNCILLOR. } Sir Donald Somervell. Attorney-General ! and Barristcr-at-Law. ] BARONET. ! Sir Archibald Weigall, J.P., Deputy- i Lieutenant and High Sheriff of i Lincolnshire, chairman of the Royal j Empire Society ami member of the I Council of the Koval Agricultural Society. K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander, St. Michael and St. George.) Lord Harlech, formerly Secretary of State for the Colonies. Kt. (Knight Bachelor.) Mr. Thomas Wentworth Russell, otherwise Russell Pasha, Commandant of the Cairo City Police, under the Ministry of the Interior, with rank of Lewa (Major-General) and civil rank of l'asha; also Director of the Egyptian Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau. C.B. (Companion of the Bath.) Air Vice-Marshal Hazelton Nicholl, member of'the Air Board of the Royal Australian Air Force. O.M. (Order of Merit.) Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University, and director of the observatory at Cambridge. The King appointed Sir Archibald Weigall King of Arms of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, replacing Sir Frank Swettenham, who had resigned. POSTHUMOUS HONOUR. LATE N.S.W. MINISTER." ' SYDNEY, June 8. The posthumous honour of Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire, has been bestowed upon the late Mr. J. M. Dunriingham, who died suddenly on May 2(5, in recognition of his activities as Minister in charge of the 150 th anniversary celebrations. His widow is to assume the title and place to which she would have been entitled had her husband lived. _