THE NEW YEAR HONOURS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22005, 1 February 1937, Page 8

THE NEW YEAR HONOURS

Mr George Harper Knighted RECOGNITION OF SERVICES TWO WOMEN INCLUDED IN LIST \ ■ U'R«S3 ASSOCIATION TRLEGEAU.) WELLINGTON, January 31. The Governor-General (Lord Galway) has announced that his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer the following honours for services rendered to the Dominion. Knighthoods are conferred on Mr George Harper, of Christchurch, and Mr George A. Troup, of "Wellington. The list is:— KNIGHT BACHELOR (Kt.) George Harper, 0.8. E., of Christchurch. George Alexander Troup, C.M.G., of Wellington. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Companions (C.M.G.) Professor Hugh Mackenzie, M.A., Foundation Professor of English language and literature at Victoria University College, Wellington. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Commander of the Military Division (C.8.E.) Captain Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan. M.V.0., D.S.C., R.N., formerly second naval member of the New Zealand Naval Board. Commander of the Civil Division (C.8.E.) Joseph William Allan Heenan, LL.B., Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington. Officer of the Civil Division (0.8. E.) Miss Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer, of Omatua, Rissington, Hawke's Bay, founder of the Women's Institute and the Townswomen's Guild movements in New Zealand. Miss Eileen May Duggan, M.A., of Wellington. Member of the Civil Division (M.8.E.) Richard Brown, J.P., formerly secretary of the Wellington Hospital Board. Harold Archibald Sommerville, secretary of the Auckland Hospital Board. William Shakespear Wharton, J.P., secretary of the North Canterburton Hospital Board, Christchurch. SIR GEORGE TROUP Sir George Troup, C.M.G., has given many years' service on public bodies in Wellington and is a former Mayor of the city. H,e was born in London in 1863, and educated at Gordon's College, Aberdeen. He studied architecture in Edinburgh and became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He arrived in New Zealand in 1884, joined a Government survey party in Otago, and in 1887 became a draftsman in the Railway Department. Subsequently he became officer in charge of the architectural branch, a position from which he retired in 1924. For more than 30 years Sir George Troup has been president of the Wellington Boys' Institute. He is also president of the Young Citizens' League, and a member of the council of the Queen Margaret and Scots Colleges. He was elected to the Wellington City Council in 1925 and was Mayor of Wellington from 1927 to 1931. He is a member of the T. G. Macartney Trust, the Wellington Town Planning Board, and the board of governors of the Wellington Boys' and Girls' Colleges. He contested the Wellington North seat unsuccessfully at the general election in 1931. In the same year he was made a Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. PROFESSOR HUGH MACKENZIE Professor Hugh Mackenzie, C.M.G., is professor of English Language and literature at Victoria College. He was born in Ardross, Ross-shire, Scotland, in 1861, and received his early education there. He entered St. Andrew's University in 1881 and graduated master of arts in 1886, after a distinguished career as an undergraduate. He lived in St. Andrew's for 17 years, engaged in tutorial and journalistic work. He was tutor to the present Marquis of Bute, when he was appointed to his present position at Victoria College In 1907 and 1908 Professor Mackenzie was chairman of the Professorial Board at Victoria College. He has published numerous booklets en Celtic literature and on education. CAPTAIN LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN MORGAN Captain Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, C.8.E., M.V.0., D.S.C., R.N., was flaglieutenant to the Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Jellicoe, on the H.M.S. New Zealand in 1919, and was second naval member of the Navy Board, New Zealand, from 1934 to 1936. He was born 'in England in 1891 and attended the Royal Naval Colleges at Dartmouth and Osborne. He was flag-lieutenant to the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Roger Keys, in 1918, and in the following year to Earl Jellicoe. He took part in the operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend. MISS A. E. J. SPENCER Miss Anna Spencer, 0.8. E., is the founder of the Women's Institute movement in New Zealand. While engaged in war work in England she came in contact with a similar organisation, and on her return to the Dominion 15 years ago she started the movement at Rissington, Hawke's Bay, where she resides. She was the first chairwoman of the national executive, but retired from active participation about a year ago.