THE NEW YEAR HONOURS

Press, Issue 22599, 3 January 1939, Page 10

THE NEW YEAR HONOURS

brief biographies OF RECIPIENTS

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MR T. R. AICKIN Mr T. K. Aickin, C.8.E., was born at Cambridge, Waikato, in .1886 al ™ joined the railway service m 1901. In 1915 he went to the Great War with the First Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, attaining the rank of captain. He was in the army of occupation in Germany after the armistice, returning on the Corinthic, of which he was ship’s adjutant. He was transferred from the Railways Department to the Parliamentary Secretarial Corps, being associated with the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, the Hon. w! B Tavener, the Hon. W. Veitch, and is at present private secretary to the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash). He was associated with the Hon. W. Downie Stewart on his visit to Honolulu for trade negotiations with the Canadian Government, and in 1932 accompanied Mr Downie Stewart to Ottawa for the Imperial Conference. In 1937 he accompanied Mr Nash to London on trade and other matters, and also to attend the Imperial Conference. MR A. W. MULLIGAN Mr A. W. Mulligan, C.8.E., was appointed in February of this year to the position of general secretary of the centennial branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. He joined the Public Service in Dunedin in 1899, as a telegraph message boy. After qualifying- if* jtveral branches of the Post and Department, he was appointed in 1916 private secretary to the Minister for Agriculture. Two years later he was transferred to the position of private secretary to the Minister for Lands, which he held until this year. During that period he was associated with the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, the Hon. D, H. Guthrie, and the Hon. A. D. Me. Leod, the Rt. Hon. G, W. Forbes, the Hon. Sir Alfred Ransom, and the present Minister for Lands (the Hon. F, Langstone).

MAJOR S. H. CRUMP Major Stanley H. Crump, 0.8. E., was born in Wellington in 1889, and was educated at Mount Cook School, Wellington College, and privately. He first took up building and construction work, and later served during the Great War, rising from the rank of second lieutenant to major, and being mentioned in dispatches. On returning to the- Dominion he Joined the Defence Department, being attached' to the New Zealand Staff Corps. He has held the positions of requisition officer, New Zealand Hifie Brigade, supply officer. New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, and senior supply officer to the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division, and is at present Deputy - Quartermaster - General, and Director of Supplies and Transport, army headquarter*;, Wellington.

CHIEF PETTY OFFICER A. V. STYLES

Chief Petty Officer Writer A. V. Styles, M.8.E., was born in Taranaki and entered the New Zealand naval service when it was constituted.- He has served on all ships of the squadron during the last 17 years, spending most of his time at sea.* He was selected to join the staff of the Navy Office for personnel duties in May, 1937, showing particular aptitude for this work. He is the first representative of the lower deck in the New Zealand Navy to receive this honour;

SERGEANT-MAJOR G. F. MACCULLOCH

Staff Sergeant-Major G. F. MacCulloch, was for five and a half years a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards before coming to New Zealand in 1926 to join the permanent staff. He spent seven years in Christchurch, and since then has been an instructor at Trentham, with an excellent record as instructor. He was responsible for the training of the New Zealand contingent which visited England for the Coronation of King George VI.

MISS CECILIA MCKENNY Miss Cecilia McKenny, M.8.E., deceived her nursing training at the Wellington Public Hospital, where she was engaged for eight years. She then went to the Wanganui Public Hospital as matron, a 1 position which she held for more than 20 years. . During the Great. War she was for a time on the hospital ship Maheno. ‘ At the conclusion of her hospital service Miss McKenny represented the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association at the International Nurses’ Congress at Montreal in 1929, and represented the Dominion at the first International Hospital Conference at £ilantic City in the same year. On returning to the Dominion she gave her services to the Registered Nurses’ Association.

She is president of the Manawatu branch and a member of the executive council of the association. She besame New Zealand president in 1937. /Miss McKenny has been a member of the Wairarapa Hospital Board for the last eight years.

MISS N- P. FITZGIBBON Miss N. P. Fitzgibbon, M.8.E., has been nursing adviser to vthe Plunket Society in Dunedin for the last five years. She was born at Arrowtown, and received her nursing training at the Christchurch Hospital, She served during the war as a general nursing sister, and after her return to New Zealand was appointed matron of the Karitane Hospital, Dunedin. She later filled a similar post at Auckland, and five years ago was appointed nursing adviser to the society, with her headquarters at DUnedin. Miss Fitzgibbon recently visited the Toronto exhibition where, at the request of the authorities, she arranged an exhibition/of Plunket Work. MRS M. F. GABY Twenty-five years of nursing service with the St. John Ambulance Brigade have just been completed by Mrs Mary F. Gaby, M.B.E. Mrs Gaby , was born and educated in Wellington, joined the Wellington South nursing division of the St. John Ambulance . Brigade in 1913, being appointed lady s .divisional superintendent in 1923. and I lady corps’ superintendent in 1929. . In recognition of her services she , was appointed a serving sister of the

Order of St. John in 1927, and in 1936 was made ah officer of the Venerable Order of St. John. During the Great War, the 1918 influenza epidemic, and the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake Mrs Gaby was prominent in offering firstaid and in assisting in nursing generally. She is a member of a number of organisations for social advancement. DR. ALICE HORSLEY , Dr. Alice Woodward Horsley, 0.8. E., is the eldest daughter of the late Mr William Woodward, M.A., of Cambridge. Dr. Horsley graduated from the Otago Medical School in 1900, being the third woman in New Zealand to take the degree of M.8., Ch.B. . . She has practised ever , since m Auckland, and is at present an honorary anaesthetist to the Auckland Hospital and to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital; She is best known for her devoted work among the poor ci Auckland and especially as medical officer to the Dock Street Mission.