NEW YEAR HONOURS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9

NEW YEAR HONOURS

TWO LABOUR PEERS MANY FRESH KNIGHTS RECOGNITION OF SERVICES TO EMPIRE (British Official Wireless,) Rugby, January 1. The list of New Year honours includes new peerages, which are conferred upon the following: Major Dudley Aman, who unsuccessfully contested Faversham for the Labour Party at the general election; Sir Willoughby Dickinson, who was formerly a Liberal member of London County Council, and who is honorary secretary of the World Alliance for the Promotion of International Friendship through Churches, and has been closely identified with the League of Nations ■Union; Sir William Noble, ex-presi-dent of the Chamber of Shipping; Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Labour Government of 1924, and now Parliamentary S-cretary to the Ministry of Transport; Sir z llugh Trenchard, Air Marshal, and Sir Charles Wakefield, who has done much for aviation. There is one new Privy Councillor, Viscount Goschen, lately Governor of Madras. The new baronets include Sir Louis Bernard Baron, son of the late Mr. Bernhard Baron, the millionaire tobacco magnate, for public and philanthropic services; Sir Gregory Foster, recently Vice-Chancellor of London University; and Sir Eustace Tenny-son-D’Eyncourt, formerly Director of Naval Construction. the new Knights are Sir Nigel Davidson, Legal Secretary to the Sudan Government; Sir Archibald Flower, chairman of the governors of the Shakespeare National Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon; Sir John Ritchie, chief inspector of Customs and Excise; and Sir Frederick Wall, secretary of the Football Association. Other i honours include the following:— Order of Bath, Knight Grand Cross. —Admiral Sir William Goodenough. Knights Commanders. — General Lewis Halliday, Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Radcliffe, Lieutenant-General Kenneth Wigram, of the Indian Army, and Lieutenant-General Cyril MacMullan, of the Indian Army. Order of the Star of India, Knight Grand Commander.—Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief in India. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knights of the Grand Cross.— Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Sir Horace Byatt, lately Governor of Trinidad; and Sir Malcolm Robertson, lately Ambassador at Buenos Aires. Knights Commanders.—Sir William Maxwell, Governor of Northern Rhodesia; Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Balfour, Director of the Loudon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Sir Edward Crowe, Comptroller-General of the Overseas Trade Department; and Sir Frederick Leith Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance at the Treasury, for services in connection with Reparations. , Imperial Order of the Crown of India.—Viscountess Goschen. Royal Victorian Order, Knights Grand Cross.—Duke of Beaufort, Sir Frederick Milner, and Admiral Sir Colin Keppel. Order of the British Empire, Knight Grand Cross.—Admiral Sir Edward Bridford, retired. Dame Commander. —Lady Bailey, for services to aviation. Knight Commander.—Sir Harry Fox, Commercial Councillor to the British Legation at Peking; Sir Frank Badeley, Chief Secretary to the Government of Nigeria. Companion of Honour.—-Miss Maude Royden, eminent in the religious life of the nation. STRENGTHENING LABOUR IN UPPER HOUSE London, January 1. The “Manchester Guardian” comments that Mr. MacDonald has again shown strict economy, even parsimony, in creating Labour Peers. He only appointed three in 1924—Lord Arnold, Lord Olivier, and Lord ’Thomson. This year the appointments are limited to the political world, and are only two, namely, Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, whose Parliamentary style will suit the House of Lords better than the House of Commons, and Major Aman, who is obviously intended to strengthen Labour’s debating force in the Lords. BY-ELECTION NECESSARY British Official Wireless. . Rugby, January 1. The elevation to the Peerage of Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, Labour member for Brightside, Sheffield, causes a vacancy, necessitating a by-election. At the last election” Mr. Ponsonby had a majority of over 19,000 in a three-cornered contest. SIR HUGH TRENCHARD OFFER OF GOVERNORSHIP London, January 1. The “Daily Express” says that it is not generally known that Sir Hugh Trenchard was offered the Governorship of New Zealand and declined. GREETINGS TO THE KING British Official Wireless Rugby, January 1. lu a telegram to, the Lord Mayor of London, acknowledging New Year greetings, the King says: “I deeply value the affectionate allusion to my restoration to health and to the Queen and members of my family. I fervently join in the hope that God’s blessing of peace and general wellbeing may be vouchsafed to the nations of the world. May the New Year inspire the people of our Empire with a solemn resolve to secure an increasing measure of prosperity. There are difficulties to be overcome, but these I know will be faced with the courage and enterprise traditional to the citizens of London.”

To a congratulatory New Year telegram from the President of the Chin ese Republic. King George has sent the following reply: “It is with much pleasure: that I have received your kind message of New Year’s greetings on behalf of the National Government and people of the Republic of China, and I sincerely reciprocate your good Kishes,* 1