NEW YEAR HONOURS

Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 10

NEW YEAR HONOURS

DOMINION RECIPIENTS SIR JOSEPH WARD RECEIVES THE C.G.H.G. ' KNIGHTHOODS FOR MR SIDEY AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE (Pi* UifintD Fxzss Asiocunox.] AUCKLAND, December 31. 1 I-b is announced by His Excellency the Governor-General that His Majesty the Xing has been graciously pleased, pri;, the occasion ot the: New Year, to Confer the following honours upon the gentlemen named below 'KNIGHT GRAND CB OSS' OP THE most Distinguished order OP ST. MICHAEL AND ST. . , v GEORGE. . ; ' [G.C.M.G.], The RIGHT HON. SIR . JOSEPH ” GEORGE WARD, BART., K.C.M.G., P.G., M.P., Prime Minister. KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE ' MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL' AND ST. ' .GEORGE. vt' ■ ' [K.C.M.G.] . _ The HON. MICHAEL MYERS, K.C., Chief Justice. KNIGHT BACHELOR. ■ [Kt.] The HON. THOMAS KAY SIDEY, M.L.C., Attorney-General. COMPANIONS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE, - [C.M.G.] ' ■ EDWARD WILLIAM KANE, Clerk of Parliaments, formerly Clerk of the ‘ House of Representatives. “ ROBERT PARKER, Organist, etc., • ..of Wellington, for services to music. COMMANDER OF. TEE CIVIL DIVISION OP THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OP THE BRITISH EMPIRE. - [C.B.E ] ARTHUR ALBERT LUCKHAM, Resident Commissioner of Niue Island. BRITISH RECIPIENTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ■ LONDON, December 31. ’Amongst the New Year honours are j the following;—Knighthoods—Professor Granville Bantock, misician; Lieuten-ant-colonel H. W, G. Cole, director of the exhibitions section of ,the Department of Overseas Trade. Numerous women have been honoured. In addition to Lady Bailey and Miss Maude Hoyden, they include Miss Rose Rosenberg (Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s personal secretary), who ’ receives the C.8.E., and Miss Elsie ... Hughes (secretary to Lord Dawson), the M.B.E, for services during the King’s illness. Mr V. S. Srinivasa Sastri has been made a Companion of Honour for eminent services in Indhn affairs. TWO LABOUR PEERS. LONDON, January 1'(Received Janaury 2, at 9.5 a.m.) The ‘ Manchester Guardian’ comments that Mr MacDonald has again shtfwn strict economy, even parsimony, in creating Labour supporters peers. Ho only appointed three in i- • 1924—Lords Arnold, 0 livier, and Thomson. This year he limited tbo politicals to two—Mr Arthur Ponsonby, ' whose parliamentary style will suit 1 the House of Lords better than the House of Commons, and Major Aman, who is obviously intended to strengthen Labour’s debating force. AUSTR ALIANS HONOURED. . * ■' SYDNEY, January 1. 'Among the New'Tear honours Prolessor John Beverley Peden, K.C., president of the. New South Wales Legislative Council, and dean of faculty, and Professor Challis, profes- . nor of law Sydney Unievrsity, have been created Knights Commander of St. Michael and St. George (K.0.M.G.) Mr Walter David Loveridge, presii ■ . dent of the Sydney Harbour Trust, has . been made a Commander of St. Michael and St, George (C.M.G.). Miss Sibella Maca:;thur Onslow, who .• belongs to J one of the. oldest Austra-lian-pioneering families, has received the Order of the British Empire (0.8. E.). She is a prominent welfare . and Red Cross woi-lser. , Mr Justice James. Blair, Chief Jus- ■/ tice'of Queensland, has been created a Knight Bachelor (K. 8.), ( Dr Stanley' Argyle; who was Chief ’ Secretary in the last Victorian Ministry, Has received a Knighthood of the British Empire (K.8.E.). Mr R. Ecoles Snowden, Agent-Gen-eral for the Tasmanian Government in Jv, England, has been created a Knight Bachelor (K. 8.), -