IN NEW ZEALAND

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1932, Page 7

IN NEW ZEALAND

FIVE SELECTIONS

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(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 2nd June._ The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, announces that the King has been gracionsly pleased on the occasion of His Majesty's birthday to confer the following honours:— Knight Bachelor. ALBERT CECIL DAT, Official Secretary to the Governor-General. WILLIAM DUFFUS HUNT, of Wei? lington, managing director of Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd. Commander of the Order of St. Michael > and St. George.. PBOFESSOB JAMES HIGHT, Sector of Canterbury University. ALEXANDER DALLAS PABK, Secretary to the Treasury. Companion of the Order of the British Empire. GEOEGE McNAMABA, Secretary : of the Post and Telegraph Department. SIB OECH, DAY, Kt. Sir Albert Cecil Day, Official Secretary to His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, was bora in 1884, and was educated at Northbeach Grammar School and by private tutors. In 1902, he was articled to a leading West of England firm of chartered accountants, auditors, and "joint stock company secretaries; he also studied law. Compelled by ill-health to abandon city life, he was appointed in 1908 by Lord Islington toy. assist in the management and control of. his Wiltshire agricultural estates. In 1910, on Lord Islington's appointment as Governor of New Zealand, Mr. Day accompanied him to the Dominion, occupying the post of assistant private secretary on his personal staff, and has since successively filled the position of Official Secretary to the Earl of Liverpool, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Bart., and the present Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe). He was awarded the honours of C.B.E. in 1919, and C.M.G. in 1925. He married Miss Catherine Fisher, daughter of the late Mr. William Fisher, of Gloucester. SIR WILLIAM HUNT, K.B. Sir William Duffus Hunt, chairman and managing director, Wright Stephenson, and Co., general merchants, ■ was born in Mongomuni in: 1867, and is a son of John and Maria Francis . (zee Duffus) Hunt, of Waikato. Sir William was educated in Auckland, and commenced his career on Blackstone Hill sheep station, Central Otago, in 1885. In. 1891 he opened a branch at Gore, Southland, :for Wright, Stephenson,. and Co., which ho managed until 1896, when he opened find managed their Invercargill branch until ho* came to Wellington in 1918. In the following year, he bey came a partner of tho firm*- and was appointed managing director'in 1906. on the formation of the limited company and chairman in 1907. ■■• He is a member of the Meat Export Control.Board, and was chairman of the Public Service Eoyal Commission in 1912, chairman of the Taxation Commission in 1923, member of the Eoyal Commission in 1924, member of the New Zealand Board of Agriculture from 1912 to 1918, and member of the council of the New Zealand Agricultural Society. ME. A. D. PARK, C.M.Of. Mr. A. D. Park, Secretary of the Treasury, was born at Waitaki, North Otago, in 1882, and was educated at Waitaki and Waimate. In 1900 he joined the Public Works Department at Wellington as a cadet, and held various positions in the Public Service until in 1918 he received the appoint-

ment of senior accountant in the head office of ths Department of Agriculture. In 1919 he was inspector for the Public Service Commissioner and for' the Treasury, and in 1922 became Secretary for Marine. For two years he was Assistant Public Service Commissioner, and in 1929 was promoted to the Secretaryship of the Treasury. DR. J. HIGHT, O.M.G. Dr. James Hight, Rector of Canterbury College since 1927, was born at Christehurch and took his degree at Canterbury College. He was for soyeral years lecturer on constitutional history and political economy, and subsequently was professor of history and economics. Ho obtained the first Litt. D. degree awarded by .the New Zealand University. In 1927 he spent a year at the University of Leeds on exchange with Professor A. J. Grant. Since 1904 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, and in 1925. was local adviser to the editors of the Cambridge History of the British Empire. In 1912 Dr. Hight was a member of the Royal Commission on the Cost of Living. He has written many articles on economic and educational subjects, and was chairman of the Economic Committee set up by the Government this year. ME. O. MoNAMARA, 0.8. E. Mr. George McNamara, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, was born at Invercargill in 1881. He joined the Postal Department in 1896, and received steady promotion until his appointment to his present position as head of this branch of the Public Service, in succession to Mr. A. T. Markman. .