NEW YEAR HONOURS ANNOUNCED

Grey River Argus, 2 January 1948, Page 4

NEW YEAR HONOURS ANNOUNCED

Three New Zealanders are Included Konitza Relieved

(Roc. 5.30) LONDON, Dec. 31. The following New Zealanders appear in the New Year Honours list: Privy Councillor: Sir Humphrey Francis O’Leary, Chief Justice of New Zealand. K.8.E.: Dr Joseph Bernard Dawson, Professor of Midwifry and Gynaecology at Otago University. Knight Bachelor; Mr David Stanley Smith, Judge of the New Zealand ' Supreme Court and Chancellor of the New Zealand University. OTHER HONOURS. Order of Merit: Mr Thomas Stearns Eliot, the famous poet. Companions of Honour: Mrs Harold Nicholson, the authoress; Miss V. Sackville-West, and Margaret Grace Bondfield. G.8.E.: Countess Mountbatten of Burma. G.C.V.0.: The Duchess of Gloucester, ~the Duchess of Kent, the Countess of Athlone, and Sir Godfrey Thomas, • the private secretary to the Duke of Gloucester. Viscount: Baron Hyndley. Barons.- Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Sir Sholto Douglas; Sir Valentine George Crittall; Sir Harold Mackintosh, and Sir John Colville. Privy Councillors: Rt. Hon. Thomas John McKell, the Governor-General of Australia; Hon. George Buchanan, Minister of Pensions; Mr * David Kirkwood M.P.;. Sir' Malcolm Macraughten (who until recently was a High Court Judge): and Mr George Heaton Nicholls (Sftuth African High Commissioner in London 1944 to 1947). G.C.M.G.: Mr Alfred Duff Cooper, and Sir Oliver Harvey (Ambassador Designate to Paris). K.C.8.; Vice-Admiral Charles Daniel. Knights Bachelor: Messrs John Douglas Cockroft, Michael Balcon, William Dunkeld Robieson, Francis Raymond Connelly (Lord Mayor of Melbourne), Charles John Lowe (Judge of the Victorian Supreme Court and Chancellor of the Univer- ' sity of Melbourne), Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (pastoralist of Western Australia), and Frank Ernest Gibson, M.L.C. (Western Australia). - FULL N.Z. LIST P.A. WELLINGTON. January 1. The Governor-General announced that His Majesty, on the occasion: of • the New Year, has conferred . the following honours:— . . Privy Councillor: Hon. Sir Humphrey Francis O’Leary, K.C.M.G. (Chief • Justice of New Zealand). CIVIL DIVISION Knight Commander of the Order, of the British Empire (K.8.E.):. Professor Joseph Bernard Dawson, Professor of Midwifery and gynaecology at Otago University. Knight Bachelor: Hon. David Stanley Smith (Judge of the Supreme Court). Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.): Doctor Guy Hardy Scholefield, 0.8. E. (Parliamentary Librarian and Dominion Archivist, of Wellington); and the Right Reverend Frederick Augustus Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, of Kohupatiki. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.8.E.): Mr Robert Caughley (Wellington); Mr John Henderson (Wellington); Doctor Walter Allison Gilmour (Auckland). Officer of the Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. Mr John Barr (Auckland); Mr John Alexander Crawford (of Cairo); Mr Kanapu. Haerehuka (of Wanganui); Miss Aileen Ajmie Joyce (Auckland);. Mr Thomas Rowlev Lees (Palmerston North); Miss Mary Letitia Lindsay (Timaru); Mr James Murphy (Christchurch); Mr Henry Valder (of Hamilton); Doctor Wilifred Stanley Wallis (Rotorua); Mr John Wilson (Dunedin). Member of the Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.): Mrs Ada Emily Beer (Gisborne); Mr John Bryce Berry (Kaikohe); Miss Pansv ..Helen Auld Chapman (Auckland): Mr William Alfred Henry Corfield (Auck- : land); Mrs Dorothy Louisa Derig (Auckland); Mr John William Fenton (Kaitangata); Miss Elsie , Loffisa Muriel Julius (Greymouth); Mr Kenneth McKenzie (Geraldine); Rev. Leslie Bourneman Neale (Dunedin); Mr James Baxter McNeill. (Christchurch); Miss Mirika Wehineihana (Opunake); Mr. William - Trickey Woods (Christchurch). MILITARY DIVISION Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.8.E.): Air Commodore Cyril Eyton Kay, 0.8. E,, D.F.C., Air Member for Supply R.N.Z.A.F. Officer of the Order of the .British Empire (0.8. E. Temp. Colonel Charles Ritchie Burns. 2nd N.Z.E.F.. Wellington; Temp. Lieut.-Colohel John Patrick Joyce, D.C.M., Royal New Zealand Artillery. Wellington; Squadron Leader Noel Alfred Vear, R.N.Z.A.F., Auckland. . Member of the Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.-): Acting Telegraphist Lieutenant William Lewis Brewer, D.S.M., R.N.Z.N., Waiouru; Temp. Lieut.-Colonel John William Barry, New Zealand Regiment, of Wanganui; Major and Quartermaster Thomas Joseph Cronin, New Zealand Regular Force, of Heretaunga: Major Adam James Moore, New . Zealand Regiment, of Nelson; Captain John Henry Leedham Trenwith, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Auckland: Flying Officer Richard Langslord Brewer, R.N.Z.A.F., Christchurch; Warrant Officer Albert Ernest Chapman. R.N.Z.A.F., Blenheim. Air Force Cross: Squadron Leader Cyril Henry Baigent, D. 5.0., D.F.C., of -Ohakea; Flight Lieutenant Thomas Alexander McLeod Morgan, Ohakea; plight. Lieutenant Mervyn Windsor Wrennail. Auckland; Warrant Officer Douglas Owen Holloway, New Plymouth.

British Empire Medal: Electrical Artificer Alfred Ernest Crooks, R.N.Z.N.. Auckland: Mr Ernest Robert Jackson. Canteen Tenant, TI.M.N.Z.S. Bellona. Auckland; Temo. Warrant Officer First Class Donald Hughes Cross, New Zealand Regiment, Christchurch: Temn. Warrant Officer First Class David Charles McGill, N.Z. Temporary Staff, Wellington; Temp. Staff Sergeant Victor James Keane. N.Z. Temporary Staff, Auckland; Flight Sergeant William Henry James, Blenheim; Flight Sergeant Tom Lewis Dimmock, Christchurch; Flight Sergeant Basil Frederick. White, Christchurch: Flight Sergeant James Robert John Begg, Christchurch. Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air: Flight Lieutenant James Patrick O’Donnell, Christchurch; Flying Officer Joseph Cassidy Naera, of, Whenuapai; Flying Officer John Duncan Garrett. Ohakea: Warrant Officer Frederick Hazel, Ohakea; Flight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Woods, Whenuapai.