THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20563, 3 June 1932, Page 10

THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

TWO KNIGHTHOODS. SIR W. D. HUNT AND SIR A. C. DAY. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) AUCKLAND, June 2. The Governor-General announced tonight that the King had been graciously pleased on the occasion of his Majesty's birthday to confer the following honours: — Knight Bachelor. WILLIAM DUFFUS HUNT, of Wellington, managing director of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. ALBERT CECIL DAY, of Wellington, Official' Secretary to the GovernorGeneral. Companion of the Most Distinguished Order cf St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.). ALEXANDER DALLAS PARK, Sec re'tary to the Treasury. DR. JAMES HIGHT, of Christchuich, Rector of Canterbury University College. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.8.E.). GEORGE McNAMAEA, of Wellington, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. Following is a copy of a cable message which has been dispatched by the Governor-General to the King on the occasion of his Majesty's birthday:— "I desire to tender to your Majesty on tho occasion of your birthday the loyal and affectionate good wishes of your Majesty's Government and people of New Zealand, and to convey to you an assurance of their constant and unflagging devotion to your Majesty and the Throne."

Sir W. D. Hunt was born at Mongomuni in 1867. He was educated in Auckland, and began his career on a sheep, station in Central Otago in 1885. He was manager of a <tation from 1888 until 1891, when he opened a branch at Gore for Wright, Stephenson and Co., an organisation with which he is still identified as chairman and managing-director. Ho opened a branch for the company at Invercargill in 1896, and bocame a partner in tho firm in 1899. He was appointed managing-director when the firm was formed into a limited liability company in 1906, and took up residence in Wellington in 1918. His first wifo died in 1900, and he was married in 1902 to a daughter of the Rev. H. J. Edwards. He is chairman of directors of the Wairarapa Frozen Meat Company, managing-director of Abraham and Williams, Ltd., and a director of a number of other companies.

Sir Albert Cecil Day was born in 1882 and educated at the Northleaoh Grammar School. In 1902 he was articled to a leading West of England firm of chartered accountants, auditors, and joint stock . company secretaries. He also studied law, but was N compelled by ill-health to abandon city life. In 1908 he was appointed by Lord Islington to assist in tho management and control of his Wiltshire agricultural estates. In 1910, when Lord Islington was appointed Governor of New Zealand he accompanied him to tho Dominion, occupying tho post of assistant private secretary on the staff. He has since successively filled the position of official secretary to Lord Liverpool, Lord Jellicoe, Sir Charles Fcrgusson, and the present Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. In 1919 he was awaked C.8.E., and in 1925 was awarded "he C.M.G.. He married Miss Catherine Fisher, youngs est daughter of Mr William Fishor, of Gloucester.

Dr. James Hight, Kactor of Canterbury College, was born at Halswell, Christchurch, receiving his early education at the Malvern District School. He was a student at the Christchurch Training College in 1891 and 1892, taking lectures at Canterbury College from 1801 to 1894. In 1892-93 he gained Exhibitions in English, graduating B.A. in the latter - year, when his scholastic successes included a senior scholarship in English and French, and the Tinline Scholarship in English. In 1894 he graduated M.A. with first-class honours in English and French. In 1906" he gained the distinction of being the first in New Zealand to receive the degree of Litt.Di In 1895 he was appointed to the staff of the Auckland College and Grammar School as English and commercial master, and from 1896 to 1901 he* was chief modern languages master at the same school, and lecturer in French at tho Auckland Pupil Teachers' Centre. From 1001 until 1905 ho was lecturer on constitutional history and political economy at Canterbury College. Ho was during this time editor to the publishing house of Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch, and editor of the "New Zealand Schoolmaster." From 1906 to 1908 lie was lecturer in history and economics, and director of studies in commerce at Canterbury College. In 1909 he was appointed Professor of History and Economics, occupying the Chair until 1920, when he became Professor of History. From 1923 to 1926 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Commerce, and in the latter part of 1923 acting-Hector of the College. From 1922 to 1925 he was a member of the Board of Governors, and from 1914 to 1926 deputy-chairman of the Board of Studies of the University. In 1027 he j spent a year at the University j)f Leeds ion exchaugewith Professor A. J. Grant. iHe succeeded Dr. Charles Chilton as I Hector of the College.

Dr. Hight has been a Fellow of the University of New Zealand since lftll. He has held high offices in the College Choral and Orchestral Societies and the Historical Association. Since 1904 he ha? been a Fellow of the Boyal Economic Society, and in 1925 was appointed local adviser to the editors of the Cambridge History -of the British Empire. From 1903 to 1909 ho was a member of the North Canterbury Education Board, and harf been chairman of the Board of Advice to the Christchurch Training College since its inception. From 1906 to 1910 he was chairman of the Board of Governors of the Christchurch Technical College. In 1912 Dr. Hight was a member of the Eoyal Commission on the Cost of Living, and in 1918-19' assessor to the Board of Trade Commission on Coal Mining and' Trade in New Zealand. He was appointed chairman of the Committee of Economists set up by the Government in February. Dr. Eight's publications include many articles on economic and educational subjects, educational books on English, history, and geography, "The Governance of New Zealand" (1905), Report i on the Cost of Living (eo-author, 1912), j "Constitutional History and Lav of

New Zealand" (1914)), Eeport on Coal Mining and Trade in New Zealand (1919), and "History of Canterbury College" (1926). Mr A. D. Park became Secretary of tho Treasury at tho beginning of 1930. He was bora at Waitaki, North Otago, in 1882, and educated at Waitaki and Waimate. In 1900 he joined the Public Works Department, Wellington, as "a cadet, after twice passing the Public Servico examination. He joined the New Zealand forces for the South African War, as assistant paymaster, and from 1903 to 1905 served as Chief Clerk in tho Public Works Department Office, Nelson. In 1906 he became first clerk on the North Island Main Trunk railway works, at Taikape. After filling various other positions he was transferred to Auckland in 1917 as Chief . Clerk, Public Works Department. In tho following year he was appointed senior accountant in the Head Office of the Department of Agriculture. In 1919, 1920, and 1921, Mr Park was employed as Inspector for the Public Service Commissioner, and ftlso for the Treasury. In 1922 he was appointed Chairman of the Special Committee o# Professional Accountants, Tyhlch introduced commercial balance-sheets into all Government Departments, and late in the same year became Secretary of Marine, being appointed head of that Department for the purpose of reorganisation, especially in respect of strff and finance. During 1924 and 1925 ho occupied the position of Assistant Public Service Commissioner, and took part in 1924 in the regrading of all Departments under the Commissioner. From 1925 to the beginning of 1930 he was Assistant* Secretary to the Treasury, and in 1928 was one of the Special Committee set up to report on the staff finances of Western Samoa. Mr Park was a member of the Economic Committee which reported to the Government this year on national financial questions, and he is acknowledged to be a competent financial authority, His task at the Treasury during the past two years has been one of tho most responsible and strenuous imposed on anyone in the country, and his services have been highly appreciated by the Government, By examination, Mr Park is a Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Accountants and Auditors, and also of the Institute of Accountants and Auditors of New Zealand.

AUSTRALIAN LIST. KINGSFORD-SMITH KNIGHTED. (TOITED PBBBB ABBOCIATIOH—BT WJtCTWO TELJSGKAPH COrYBtOHT.) (deceived June 3rd, 12,8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 2. Among the King's Birthday Honours aro the following:—' Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire. Sir Bobert Gibson, chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board. Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Mr Justice Bich, of the High Court of Australia. Knight Bachelor. Air Commodore C. „E. Kingsford--1 Smith. MacPherson Eobertson. H. D. Luxton, M.L.A., former Lord Mayor o£»Melbourue. Companion of the Order of the British Empire. Dr. F. W. Wheatlcy, former headmaster of the Jervis Bay Naval College, a distinguished scholar, who, while attached to the Intelligence Staff of the Defence • Department during the war, discovered tho key to the code used by the German Pacific Squadron during the war, which led to tho destruction of the German Squadron 'off the Falkland Islands in November, 1914. Brigadier-General G. H. Dean, of South Au*' alia. J. H. Vaughau, South Australia. Brigadier-General Paine, New South Wales. Mrs Alice IJmmerton, of Melbourne, a very prominent worker in philanthropic and charitable movements, and the B«d Cross.