2200 New Year Honours Cover Wide Range

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 13

2200 New Year Honours Cover Wide Range

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 31. The Queen bestowed 2200 New Year honours ranging from a Companionship of Honour for Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister of Malaya, to the British Empire Medal for a blinded pit worker. Her honours list, in its wide sweep, gave special encouragement to the arts, including a knighthood to the stage producer, Tyrone Guthrie, a commandership of the Order of the British Empire to the composer, Alan Rawsthorne, and an officership of this order (0.8. E. to the actress, Margaret Rutherford. It covered an unusual variety ... Others who received honoui if sports, including even the . . included:

It covered an unusual variety of sports, including even the sedate game of bowls, with an 0.8. E. for Godfrey Rowland Bolsover, whose encyclopaedia on bowls is known to devotees of the sport all over the world. Rugby football was prominent with a C.B.E. for LieutenantColonel John Tallent, a former international and leading administrator of the game.

Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. C. Macaulay, known throughout the world as a man who made the Wimbledon tennis championship the great attraction it now is, received an 0.8. E. He is the secretary-treasurer of the AllEngland Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Another 0.8. E: went to Miss Doris Elaine Chambers, a former British women’s golf champion and many times an international, who captained the British women’s team in South Africa. Canada and America.

Squash rackets, amateur swimming and physical education were

also recognised in the list. Big business names—with special emphasis on those whose services have helped the British export industry—were prominent in the list. A baronetcy was conferred on Hugh Fraser, the millionaire Scottish head of a great empire of department stores throughout Britain, for public charitable services.

The only other baronetcy went to Sir James Bowman, a former coalminer ■ and miners’ leader, who since 1956 has been chairman of the National Coal Board, which directs the State-owned coalmines. Space-age science claimed its share of awards. Of only two peerages, one—a barony—went to Sir Alexander Flack, chairman of the- advisory committee. Among 31 new Knights Bachelor was Alfred Lovell, professor director of the Jodrell Bank ex-

perimental station, whose giant telescope “tracked” Russia’s sputniks. The coveted Companionship of Honour—created by King George V and restricted to 50 members —was given only to two persons —the Malayan Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and the Earl of Limerick, chairman of the Medical Research Council.

The one life peerage went to the Labour elder statesman, Tom Williams, a former Minister of Agriculture. Knighthoods spread over a wide field of interest, recipients ranging from William Iliff, vicepresident of the Internationa! Bank for. Reconstruction and Development, to Mr Barnett Janner, the Labour M.P. who is president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

They included also George Beharrell, chairman of the Dunlop Rubber Company, Ltd., and Gerald Clayton Beadle, director of television broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation. The only woman to get the equivalent of a knighthood—a dame commandership of the Order of the British Empire was Miss Kitty Anderson, headmistress of the North London Collegiate School. But women received around a sixth of the total honours.

The Queen made various appointments to the Royal Victorian Order, which is reserved for recognition of personal services to the- Sovereign. Philip Hay. private secretary to the Duchess of Kent, and Robert Somervile. Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, were made knights commanders. Among diplomats honoured were Harold Beeley, deputy representative on the United Kingdom mission to ’ the United Nations, who was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

Others who received honours included:

ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE

Knights Commander (Commonwealth Relations Office List) The Hon. Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming - Bruce. C. High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand. The Right Hon. Antony Henry, Viscount Head, P.C., C.8.E., M.C., High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Nigeria. Commanders The Rt. Rev. Alfred Thomas Hill, M.8.E., Bishop of Melanesia, western Pacific. Australian List Emeritus Professor Arthur Dale Trendall. master of University House, the Deputy Vice-Chancel-lor, Australian National University, Canberra (formerly of New Zealand) KNIGHTS BACHELOR Edward Roberts Lewis, chairman of the Decca Navigator Company. Ltd., and Decca Radar, Ltd. Jack Allan Westrup, Heather professor of music at the University of Oxford. Colonial Office List Albert George Lowe, Chief Justice. Fiji (formerly of New Zealand) ORDER OF THE BATH MILITARY DIVISION Knight Commander Air Marshal Samuel Charles Elworthy, C. 8., C.8.E., D. 5.0., M.V.0., D.F.C., A.F.C. (formerly of New Zealand ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE MILITARY DIVISION Knight Grand Cross Air Chief Marshal the Hon. Percy Ronald Gardner, Earl of Bandon, K.8.E., C. 8., C.V.0., D. Dog Swims Under Water (Rec. 11 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, December 30. A two-year-old fox terrier named Lovely is probably the first dog in the world to swim under water equipped like a frogman. The dog’s owner, Sven Nahlin, is an instructor at the Stockholm frogman school. “Lovely made her ‘frog-dog’ debut early this summer dressed in a hood with a window of plexi-glass, diver’s pants, oxygen tube, etc.,” he paid. “The jdog is an extremely fast underwater swimmer, moving much more fast than I do.” he added