Queens New Year Honours List

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33113, 2 January 1973, Page 9

Queens New Year Honours List

< v Z P A-Reuter —CopprtgM; i LONDON. The Queen today bestowed New Year Honours upon more than 1000 men and women throughout the Com-! monwealth—from eminent diplomats to the; man who washes down the Royal limousines behind Buckingham Palace. The British section of the Queen’s New Year Honours List is headed by the former New Zealand Governor-Gen-eral. Sir Arthur Porritt. who is the only life peer. He is created a baron. Prominent Britons honoured include the Conservative member of Parliament, and former Minister of Defence. Sir Duncan Sandys, and the musical conductor. S r Robert Mayer, both of whom are made Companions of Honour.

Sir William Armstrong.) head of the home Civil Ser-) vice, and Mr Justice Melford Stevenson (Sir Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson, a judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division), are appointed Privy Counsellors. ) Most notable among the) ambassadors to be knighted' [are John Addis, recently ap-l pointed to Peking, and Arthur! ’Palliser. British envoy to the; 'European Economic Com-; imunity now that Britain is a! member. Both men are (.related Knights Commander of! the Order of St Michael and i ’St George (K.C.M.G.). ! There are also knighthoods ) I for two Conservative dele-; gates to the European Parliament arv Assembly. Douglas ’ Dodds-Parker and John Peel.) Dr Kathleen Kenyon, fam- i : ous for her excavations in j Jericho and Jerusalem, is! created a Dame Commander! of the British Empire; ifD.B.E.I. This is the eouiva-l lent of the knighthood) awarded to men. Also among the 34 new) British knights are the news-! paper executive, Hugh Cud-1

llipp, chairman of the Inter-! inational Publishing Corpora-) tion, for his services to jour- • nalism. the naturalist and! artist, Peter Scott, and the) musical director of the Royal I Liverpool Philharmonic Soci-i ! etv Charles Groves. ; The England cricket capItain, Ray Illingworth, whose) (team retained the Ashes j !against Australia in 1972, be-! I comes a Commander of rhe. Order of the British Empire,) !as does the veteran Everest) [mountaineer and yachtsman. ’Major Harold Tilman. ) One of the most popular iawards is that which goes to the woman athlete, Mary . ; Peters, winner of a gold medal for Britain at the 1972 | Munich Olympics for her victory in the women’s pentathlon. She trained for the event amid the noise of bombs and ! gunfire in her native North- ■ ern Ireland. Already chosen as Bri-), !tain’s sports personality of’ ‘he year, she becomes a; ! Member of the Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.). I Other sports personalities, jin the list are the Olympic; I skier, Divina Galica; the for-!

imer British bantamweight, ; boxing champion. Alan Rud-1 'kin; and the world cycling I jchampion, Hugh Porter. They,! ’too, receive the M.B.E. I The car-washer to ne hon-| Soured is Mr Frederick Huish,| who has spent the last 27) !years working in the Royal! ’Mews at Buckingham Palace. [He is awarded the Royal Vic-1 jtorian Medal. ! Seven new Australian; ’knights and one Datne —the; (wife of the former Victorian’ Premier. Sir Henry Bolte—are created. New South Wales. Victoria.’ and Queensland are the only; states which presented lists toi th-' Queen for her approval.: There are no Federal. South! Australian, or Tasmanian lists, and only one Western: Australian state award. For her outstanding public’ service to Victoria. Lady Bolte, is honoured in the .Order of the British Empire. There are two Victorian ’knighthood awards, both of! ■them Knights Bachelor: the! state’s Director of Finance,! ’William Coates, and a .Supreme Court judge, Mr Jus-!

,tice Douglas Macfarlane! I Little. I The New South Wales De-; ’puty Premier, Charles Cutler,! heads the three new knights' [created in his state. Sir’ !Charles Cutler, who is also! | the Minister of Local Govern-j Intent and Highways, is the .leader of the state’s Country! Party; he has been a politician; ■ since 1947. He becomes a! ’Knight of the Order of the! I British Empire. There are also two New) ’South Wales Knights Bache- , lor: Alastair Edward Stephen, who has long been linked ’with the Royal Prince Alfred ’Hospital, and the Sydney! [building developer and businessman, Paul Strasser. The Chief Justice of) Queensland (Mr Justice IMostyn Hanger) becomes a Knight of the Order of the British Empire. The second Queensland [knighthood goes to Albert Sakzewski, who is prominent [in many Queensland com-’ [panies and well known in! both horse racing administration and breeding circles. He [becomes a Knight Bachelor. -I