Three Knights In Birthday Honours

Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 10

Three Knights In Birthday Honours

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 9. One knight commander and two knights bachelor are included in the Queen’s Birthday honours list announced by the Governor-General (Viscount Cobham). Mr J. L. Hay, of Christchurch, who is created a Knight Bachelor, is well known for his civic and welfare work. He is the first Christchurch man to be knighted, except for Supreme Court judges, since the late Sir John McKenzie. Services to local government, agriculture and welfare work are recognised in the honours conferred by Her Majesty. The list is as follows: —

Civil Division Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire iKBE) Mr Alfred Hayward. C.8.E.. of Kereone, Morrinsville. Knight Bachelor 1 Mr James Lawrence Hay. O B.E . of Christchurch. Mr Roy Hunter Stevenson. M.8.E.. of Dunedin. Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) Mr Frederick Horowhenua Melrose Hanson, D. 5.0.. 0.8. E.. M.M., E.D.. of Wellington, Commissioner of Works since 1955. Mr Brian Edwin Keiller. of Palmerston North, chair man of the Wellington Harbour Board and a prominent member of the Royal Agricultural Society. Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.8.E.) Mr George Bartram Baker. M B E.. D.C.M., MM. of Timaru. chairman of the Rabbit Destruction Council. Mr George Philip Proctor, of Wellington, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation. Mr Frank Felix Reid, of Christchurch, chairman of the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board. Mr William Arthur Whitlock. of Havelock North, for services to journalism and community services. Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 10.8. E.) Mr James Douglas Aitchison. of PnlmeTs’on North, for local body services. Mr Malcolm Scot.t Galloway, M.C.. of Wellington, general secretary of the New Zealand Red Cross Society for 21 years. Mr John Houston, of Hawera. for community services in Taranaki. Mr Pei Te Hurunui Jones. I of Taumerunui. for services to I the Maori peon’e. ; Captain Walter Geoffrey Kelsey, of Auckland, harbourmaster at Auckland from 1949 to this year. Mr Morten Ren-nerberg Lawson, of Pahiatua. for services to local government and civ ; c affairs. Mr Ronald Wright McCredie. of Christchurch, community activities in South Otago. Mr Horace McDonald Scott, of Auckland, principal of the Seddon Memorial Technical College for 14 years. Mr John Turnbull, of Wellington. general secretary of the New Zealand Public Service Association from 1945 to early this year. Mr Denys William WankIvn Williams, of Tokomaru Bay. for services to local government. M" Pearce Melvin Eddy Williams, of Kaikohe. for local government services. Companion of the Imperial Service Order (1.5.0.) Dr. John Francis Filmer, of Lower Hutt, for services to agriculture, including research work in cobalt deficiency. facial eczema and botulism. Mr Raymond Edward Kemp, of Wellington, private

secretary to Postmasters-Gen-eral for 38 years. Members of the Most Excellent Cyder of the British Empire (M.8.E.) Miss Margaret Mariner Bain, of Christchurch, services to the community, including the Red Cross "meals on wheels." Miss Lucy Elizabeth Cook, of Marton, for Plunket Society work. Mrs Helen May Downer, of Rotorua, community services and kindergarten work. Mr Edwin Edwards, of Paeroa. community welfare and local government work. Brigadier Henry Charles Goffin of Wellington, Salvation Army community work. Detective Chief Inspector John James Halcrow, New Zealand Police, for long and distinguished police service Mr Herbert Gladstone Hill, of Wellington, services to welfare and music. Mr Basil Hundleby, of Blenheim, engineer of the Marlborough County Council for 36 years. Mrs Kathleen Gertrude Hurd-Wood, of Hamilton, work for the League for the Hard of Hearing. Mr Charles William Sherlock Keinan. of Milton. local government and R.S.A. work Mr Christian Lassen, of Hastings, local government work. The Rev. Pakake Heketoro Leonard, of Rotorua, services to the Maori people. Mr John William Maeleod. of Loburn. for local government and R.S.A. work. Mr Harry Archibald Mildon, of Auckland, honorary treasurer of the Auckland R.S.A. Mr Alexander Gibb Monahan, of Motueka. for local government and community services. Mr Norman McLeod Speer, of Auckland, general manager of the Auckland Electric Power Board from 1951 to 1959. Mr Stanley John Snow, of Whangarei, for local government services. Mrs Constance Egmont Tulloch. of Putaruru, for social welfare work. Mr Norman Webley, of Dannevirke. for local government work. British Empire Medal for Gallantry (8.E.M.) Constable Kenneth Miles Jones, of Auckland, who disarmed and arrested a mentally unstable person armed with a knife on the catwalk of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Detective Joseph Sheehan, of Auckland, who was severely wounded in the stomach when a member of a police party trying to arrest an armed man on the roof of a factory at Manurewa last December.

Officer of the Most Excel■ent Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. Commander Cyril Howard Hilliard. V R D., R N.Z.N.V.R.. of Auckland. Lieutenant - Colonel Leo Adolphus Kermode, the New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force), of Lower Hutt. Wing Commander Lawrence Hugh Edwards. Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Christchurch Member of the Most Excellent Order of the "ritish Empire (M.8.F..) Lieutenant Commander Douglas Gerald Bamfield, A.D C., Royal New Zealand Navy, of Dunedin Major Robert James Moor. E D.. Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force), of Wellington. Major (temporary Lieu-tenant-Colonel) Robert Ewen Johnson, the New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force) of Burnham. Squadron Leader Lancelot James McLean. Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Wellington. Captain John James Ayton. the Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Territorial Force), of Auckland Flight Officer Ernestine Graham Hume, Women's Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Whenuapai. Warrant Officer (Secondclass) Cecil Balfour Fowler. Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force), of Christchurch Bar to the Air Force Cross Wing Commander Geoffrey Reid Purton Highet, D.F.C, A.F.C Royal Zealand Air Force, serving in the United Kingdom. Air Force Cross (A.F.C.) Flying Officer Brian Gordon Anderson. Royal New Zealand Air Force, serving in Singapore. British Empire Medal (8.E.M.) Staff Sergeant, Temporary Warrant Officer (Secondclass) Raymond Alfred Arthur Burnett, the Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers (Regular Force), of Papakura. Staff Sergeant. Temporary Warrant Officer (Secondclass) Healy Preston. Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps (Regular Fore ), of Burnham. Chief Petty Officer Edward Charles Frederick Barnes Royal New Zealand of Auckland. Chief Petty Officer Henry Cyril Melville Brock, Royal New Zealand Navy, of Auckland Chief Petty Officer WilJam Montgomery Cedric Gibbs, Royal New Zealand Navy, of Christchurch Chief Petty Officer Writer Reginald Owen Smyth, I oyal New Zealand Navy, of Wellington Sergeant John Charles Hart Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Hamilton. Corporal Francis Murphy, Royal New Zealand Air Force, serving in Fiji. Quee.i’s Commendation for Valuable Services in the Air. Flight Lieutenant Mervyn Rybum Breed, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Papatoetoe. Flight Lieutenant Winston Ross Swap. Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Christchurch.