NEW YEAR HONORS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11403, 2 January 1931, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONORS

HEAVY LIST OF AAVARDS

ONLY MINOR. FAVORS TO NEAV ZEALANDERS.

U.P-A. by Elec Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 1, 5 p.m.) t LONDON, Dee. 31. f The New Year Honors include •j four peerages’ which are conferred upon Sir -John Hiridley, commercial e - adviser to . the Mines Department-,; ■1 Sir Ernest Lamb, -a former membei s of Parliament and a membei’ of tire 0 corporation of the City of London ;• • Sir' William-piender, a .past' president 3 of the Institute of Chartered Acs’ cbuntants, who presided over many committees and Royal Commissions •- an . commercial ■ and (financial ques-. r ticns;. and Sir Ernest Rutherford, 3 the well-known physicist authority on - radio activity arid a former presiderit 7 of the Royal Society., - s Three new Privy Councillors ore: j Mr* Thomas Kennedy, chief Labor whip,- Mr. Herbert'Morrison, Minis* r ter -of Transport, and Sir George f Peflev, a former Canadian High - Commissioner, and now Minister s without portfolio in the, Canadian Geverriment. ? The new .baronets are - Sir John Bradford, president of tlie Rural College of . Physicians : Ernest--Ddb-l enham, -Director of - Lloyds Bank: SV.r Richard Gregory,: - astronomer.; Sir George Mar, a member of the Council of-the Institute of Actuaries, and Mr. George Roberts, who, .an* 3 der the pseudonym- of “Audax,” 5 gave ‘£loo,ooo to- hospitals as a - thanksgiving offer 'for the recovery . of His Majesty the. King. ’ Admiral Sir .Oha-rlos Madden and Phillip Sheer receive the Order of Merit-, the former for distinguished services in,peace and-war and the latter in. recognition of his position as a painter and teacher in tho world, of art. : • The new knights include—Norman Angell, writer; William Goodchild, secretary to the British delegation : on tlie Reparations Commission; Dr. » Graham Little, member of Parlia- , ment- for London University; John McEwen, principal of: the Royal Academy of music; Conrad Naef, acI cor.ntant-general to the navy; David . Owen, general > manger of the Port , of London- authority; Hugh Robert- '■ son, founder -of the Glasgow" Or- * phans’ IChbir ;■ Professor Northen- ' stein, principal'of the Royal'College , of Art; James Sexton, Labor member of Parliament; Robert Young, Chairman .of Committees of tho House of Commons, and Colonel Weston Jarvis, chairriion of the Council of the Royal Empire Society. ,In the general list there are over - twenty ■ other knighthoods for the Dominions, India, the colonies, etc. Other honours include the following in the Order of the Bath: to he Knight Granjd Cross-, General Bir Robert Whigat; King’s Aide-de-Camp General and Sir Oswyn Murray. Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty; to be Knighls-Commnnder, Vice' Admiral Kelly, engineer; Vice Admiral Skelton and Frank Smith, secretary to the Royal Society; in tho; order of the Star of India, Knights Grand-Commander, the Maharajah of Udnipus and the Maharajah of Kolhapur; Honorary (Knight Commander, tho Prime Minister of Nepal; in the Order of St. Michael and St- George, Grand Cross, His Highness Tuanku Muharnmad, Federated Malay States; Sir Francis Bindley, Ambassador as Lisbon, and Sir Robert- Vansittart, Permanent- Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs; Knight Commander, Arthur Hill, Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Companion Montague John Kendall, chairman ni' tho .School Empire Tour Committee. Thero are botw-een forty and fifty , appointments to the Order of the 'lndian Empire, Royal Victoria order. Knight of ' the Grand Cross are the Earl of Alhermarle and Lord Woolavington, who won the Derby in 1922 and 1926; order of the Brinish Empire; Dame Grand Cross, - Lady Aberdeen, President of the International Council of Women; Knight Commander, Wilmott- Lewis, i “Times” correspondent at Washington'.-. Commanders, Miss MajorHeart, of Girton College, Cambridge; ' Miss Maiffincjale, vice-president- of ; the Medical Women’s International .Association; Prebendary Rudolf, ■founder of the Church of England ■ Waifs and Strays’ Society; Profesjsor Sidney Russ, for work on rad- ! ium : Lady McMillan, for philanthropic ervices in Kenya. Mrs. Swanwick, former British delegate to the League of Nations arid - president- of • ; the AVomen’s International League, (and Miss Walker, founder of tl;e (Medical Women’s Association heicome Companions of Honor.

NEW ZEALAND AWARDS

(Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, 'Jan. 1. An announcement has been .issued by the Governor-General to the effect that His .Majesty the. King has been graciously pleased, on occasion of the New Year to confer the following honors:—

Knight Bachelor,

Arthur Dudley Dobson,. Esq., Christchurch. Cecil Levs, Esq., Auckland. Companion of. St, Michael and St,

George

George Alexander Tjroup Esq., Mayor of 'Wellington. Alexander Crabb, Esq., secretary to the High Commissioner’s Department, London.

Commander of British. Empire

Williams Waddell Esq., Superintendent of the State Advances Department, Wellington. ‘ *• • Honorary 0.8. E.

Malietoa Tanumafili, Western Sam-

NO AUSTRALIANS RECOMMENDED.

(U.P.A.i by Elec. Tel., Copyright) (Received Dec. 31, 11 p.m.) . V A CANBERRA, *Dec, 31. In conformity "-with the Labor Government’s policy, no Australians have been recommended for Neiv Year honors. , -n • ...