CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—As) just an, ordinary citizen of no particular distinction I have felt a very keen disappointment, each year on King's .Birthday and New Year's Day when the list of honours has been published. I have no desire to comment upon the distinctions that have been conferred, but irather on the omissions that have beeii made. Many honours have been given to gentlemen who have merely been performing their ordinary duty on a salary basis.. Many others in Wellington arid elsewhere,■hnve devoted, art almost life-lons service to public and other social duties in* a purely honorary capacity, calling for great personal sacrifice both of timd and .money. You, Mr."-Editor, will surely be able to call to mind many who fall in this latter, category, and will agree with {he view that thousands in New Zealand must hold tliat such people 'beyond all others are entitled to be recognised and honoured. Such public work honestly and1 unselfishly performed should bo at whole.heartedly appreciated by our authorities and duly recognised before other types of cases. -....' . ..'. , : I hope my letter may have .some beneficial influence in rectifying a serious omission, if not an injustice.—l am, etc., . AO-TEA-ROA.