HONOURS LIST
HIGH HONOUR FOR JELLICOE. KNIGHTHOODS CONFERRED. ON TWO NEW ZEALANDERS. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 1. Tlie Governor-General announces that his Majesty has been graciously pleased on the occasion of the New lear to confer an Earldom on Admiral of the Fleet the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, lately Governor-General of New Zealand.
His Excellency has been further advised that hig Majesty has been pleased to confer the following honours on the gentlemen whose names are given below : K.O.M.G. The Hon. Christopher James Parr, C.M.G., M.P., Minister for Education and Minister for Justice. K.B. Dr. Frederick Truby King, C.M.G., Director of the Child Welfare Division of the Department of Health. C.M.G. Mr. Frank Milner, M.A., rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School, Oamaru. Captain Arthur Randolph Wormeley Curtis, M.C., lately private secretary to Viscount Jellicoe.
The new honour conferred upon Earl Jellicoe will be fully appreciated by the people of New Zealand as a well merited tribute to the Dominion’s popular ex-Governor-General. The famous admiral’s services to the Empire on sea and on land are too well known to require repetition here; suffice it to say that liis distinguished service in New Zealand, added to his work in the navy, make the award of fresh honours appropriate and popular.
Sir C. J. Parr has been Minister for Education and Justice since 1920. A prominent Auckland barrister, he rendered notable service to the city of Auckland as Mayor and chairman of the Education Board.
The recognition of the distinguished services of SirTruby King will be warmly applauded. As a specialist in mental diseases he was for long periods superintendent of the Wellington mental hospital and the Seacliff Asylum, but he is best known to-dav as the founder and organiser of the New Zealand Plunket Society. In this capacity he has led a movement which is conferring endless benefit o.n the community, and which has established a model service to benefit the health of women and children —a system which is recognised as a pattern for the civilised world. Sir Truby King has gained such world’wide fame in this connection that the Government recently lent his services for the organisation of similar work in England.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 January 1925, Page 5
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