THE HONOURS

Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 6

THE HONOURS

HON. J. A. YOUNG KNIGHTED A knighthood for the Hon. .1. A. Young, the Minister in attendance, headed the list of honours for personal services conferred by the Duke of Gloucester to-night on the conclusion of the official part of the New Zealand tour. The' complete list is as follows: Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. HON. JAMES ALEXANDER YOUNG. Commander of the Victorian Order. .Mr’ MALCOLM ERASED, Undersecretary of Department of 'lnternal Affairs, and manager of the tour. Member of the Victorian Order. . (Fourth Class). Air W. G. WOHLMANX, Commissioner of Police. (Fifth Class'). Air H. M. PATRICK, transport officer. ‘ ' ‘ - Royal' Victorian Medals. inspector 'JAMES CUMMINGS. Senior-sergeant J. A. DEMPSEY. ■ Sergeant P. BOULTON, of Dunedin. All'. .15. W. JENKINS, head waiter for the tour. Sir James Alexander Young was horn at Auckland in 1875. He received his early education there and later came to Dunedin to study dentistry.'He entered Parliament in 1911 as member for Waikato, representing that constituency until 1912, when he contested successfully the Hamilton seat, created in that year. Fie was appointed Chairman of Committees in 192.1, and became Minister of Health in the leconstrnction of the Coates Cabinet in January, 1926, retaining office until the end of 1928. With the formation of the Coalition, Sir James was appointed Minister of Health, Minister of Immigration, and Minister in Charge of Mental Hospitals and the Printing and Stationery Departments. At the present time he is also ActingAlinister of Employment. He has now sat in Parliament continuously for a period of twenty-four years. He is a qualified dentist, and he has also had fanning experience. Sir James has always taken a keen interest in public affairs, and besides being a member of the Hoard of Governors of the Hamilton High School, he was chairman of the Waikato Hospital Hoard for seven years, and was Mayor of Hamilton three times during Ins term of ten years as a borough councillor. He also sab for fourteen, years on the Waikoto Licensing Bench', and was chairman of the .Native Affairs Commission from 1912-1923.

Mr Millcolm' Fraser, Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, was born at Inverness, Scotland, in 1873, and was educated there. Coming to New Zealand, lie became a clerk in the. Land and Income Tax Department in 1893, remaining with that branch of the ‘public service until 1908. From 1908-1911 he was accountant to the Public Service Superannuation Board, and in the latter year ho was appointed Government Statistician. Mr Fraser organised the ballot systems and registration under the Military Service Act, 1910-1918, and m the latter year was decorated with the Order of the British Empire. Me represented New Zealand at the British Empire Conference of ’ Statisticians in 1920, and became .. Under-Secretary to the Department of Internal' Affairs in 1932. Commissioner W. G. Wohlmann was born in' Invercargill in 1872. Tie was educated in'.'Otago and Southland, and in 1894 joined New Zealand Permanent ’AMll.lery. ; He was also a member of the Riverton Rifles and the Invercargill Hussars'. He entered the New' Zealand Police Force Department, and served in most of tho departments until he was appointed Commissioner of Police "in August, 1930. He served as Commissioner of Police in Samoa from November 1. 1920. to February 20, 1922. His wife is a daughter of Mr Alexander Aitcheson, of Milton. Mr Wohlmann was included in the Birthday Honours list last year, when the distinction of the Imperial Service Order was conferred'upon him.