BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 June 1932, Page 5

BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST

AWARDS TO NEW ZEALANDERS TWO NEW KNIGHTHOODS MU. W. D. HUNT AND MR. A. O. DAY. C.M.Ct. for two others. i**.iegrapli- —i/rea>& Assocmiiou..* AUCKLAND, June 2. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, announces that the King has been graciously pleased on the occasion or His Majesty's birthday, to confer the following honours: • Knight Batchelor. William Duffus Hunt, of Wellington, managing director of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. Albert Cecil Day, Official Secretary to the Governor-General. Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Alexander Dallas Park, Secretary to the Treasury. Professor James Hight, Rector of Canterbury University. Companion of tne Order of the British Empire. George McNamara, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. SIR WILLIAM HUNT, Kt. Sir William Duffus Hunt was bom in Mongomuni in 1867, both parents being Waikato residents. He was educated in Auckland, and began his career on a sheep station in Central Otago in 1885. He was manager of a station from 1888 until 1891, when he opened a branch at Gore for Wright- Stephenson and Company, the organisation with which he is still identified as chairman and managing director. He opened a branch for the company in Invercargill in 1896, and he became a partner in the firm in 1899. He was appointed managing director when a limited company was formed in 1906. He came to reside in Wellington in 1918.

Sir William Hunt’s first wife died in 1900, and he was married in 1902 to a daughter of the Rev. H. J. Edwards. He is chairman of directors of the Wairarapa Frozen Meat Company, managing director of Abraham and Williams, Ltd., and a director of a number of other companies. Sir William is a member of both the Meat Export Control Board and the Dairy Export Control Board. In 1924 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Taxation. Between 1912 and 1918 he served as a member of the New Zealand Board of Agriculture. He has been a member of the council of the New Zealand Agricultural Society since its inception, and its treasurer since 1924, and has been closely associated with various other agricultural and pastoral groups.

SIR CECIL DAY, Kt. Sir Albert Cecil Day was bom in 1882, being educated at the Northleach Grammar Sbhool. In 1902 he was articled to a leading West of England firm of chartered accounants, auditors, and joint stock company secretaries. He also studied law, but he was compelled by ill-health to abandon city life, and in 1908 he was appointed by l Lord Islington to assist in the management and control of his Wiltshire agricultural estates. In 1910, when Lord Islington was appointed Governor of New Zealand, he accompanied him,to the Dominion,, occupying the post of assistant private secretary on his staff. He has since successively filledt he position of official secretary to the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Jellieoe, Sir Charles Fergusson, and the present Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. In 1919 he was awarded the C.8.E., and in 1925 he was awarded the C.M.G. He married Miss Catherine Fisher, the youngest daugh ter of the late Mr. William Fisher, of Gloucester.

MR. A. D. PARK, C.M.G. Mr A. D. Park become secretary to the Treasury, at the beginning of 1930. He was born at Waitaki, North Otago, in 1882, and he was educated at Waitaki and Waimate. In 1900 he joined the Public Works Department at Wellington as a cadetj after twice passing the. Public Service examination. He joined the New Zealand Forces for the South African War in 1902 as assistant paymaster, and from 1903 to 1905 he served as chief clerk in the Public Works Department office at Nelson. In 1906 he became the first clerk on the North Island Main Trunk railway works at Taihape. After filling various other positions he was transferred to Auckland in 1917 as chief clerk of the Public Works Department there. The following year he was appointed senior accountant in the head office of the Department of Agriculture. In 1919, 1920, and 1921, Mr. Park was employed as an .inspector for the Public Service Commissioner, and also fop the Treasury. In 1922 he was appointed chairman of the Special Committee of Professional Accountants for the purpose of introducing a general system of commercial balance-sheets into all Government departments, and late in the same year he became Secretaw for Marine, being appointed head of that department for the purpose of reorganisation especially in respect of staff and finance. During 1924 and 1925 he ocupied the position of Assistant Public Service Commissioner. and he took part in the 1924 regrading of all departments under the Commissioner.

Mr. Park was a member of the Fconomic Committee which reported to the Government this year on national financial questions, and he is acknowledged to he a competent financial anthoritv. Hiis task at the Treasury during the past two years has been one of the most responsible and strenuous imposed on anvone in the eouutrv, and bit: have been highlv annreciated hv the Government. DR. JAMES TUG ITT. C.M.G.

Dr. James Hight is fleeter of Canterburv College. He was born at Hanswell. Christchurch, and toolydiis degree at Canterbury College. From 1901 until 1905 he was lecturer on constitutional history and political economy at the college. From 1909 until 1920. he was professor of history and economics, and was subsequently appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law and Commerce and Professor of History.

After he had held many high university honours, Dr. ITinht succeeded Dr. Charles Chilton as Rector of the College. In 1927 h? spent a year at the University of Leeds on exchange with Professor A. J. Grant. Since 1904 be has been a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, and in 1925 he was local adviser to the editors .of the Cambridge History of the British Empire. Dr. Hight was a member of the Royal Commission on the Cost. < f

Living in 1912, and in 1918-19 he was assessor to the Board of Trade Commission on Coal Mining and Trade in New Zealand He has written many books and articles on economic and educational subjects. In February of this year Dr. Hight was appointed chairman of the Economic Committee set up by the Government. MR. G. McNAMARA, C.B.E, Mr G. McNamara, C.8.E., was born at Invercargill in 1881. He was educated at Park School, and upon the conclusion of his primary course he studied for some time under the Rev. James Henry. He entered the Post and Telegraph Department in 1896, and he has had experience in every branch of the service. After a year on the counter side in Dunedin, He was transferred to the General Post Office in Wellington in 1968, where he was associated with Mr. A, T. Markham, the former Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, in gtaff work until 5 1920. when he was appointed second assistant secretary. Upon Mr. Markham’s retirement Mr. McNamara succeeded him as secretary.

AUSTRALIANS INCLUDED KINGSFORD SMITH A KNIGHT GRAND CROSS FOR SIR R. GIBSON SYDNEY, June 2. Among the birthday honours conferred upon Australians by the King are : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire: Sir Robert Gibson, chairman of the Commonwealth Bank. Knight Commander of the Order ot St. Michael and St. George: Mr Justice Rich, a member of the judiciary of f o High Court of Australia. Knigh t - Bachel or: Air - Commodore Kings ford Smith, aviator; Mr MacPherson Robertson; Mr H. D. Luxton, M.L.Ai., a former Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Cbm pan ion of the Order of the Brithh Empire: Dr. F. W. Wheatley', former headmaster of the Jervis Bay Naval College, a distinguished scholar who, while attached to the intelligence staff of the Defence Department during the war discovered the key to a code used bv the Grman Pacific Squadron, which led to the destruction of the 'German squadron off Falkland Islands in November, 1914; Brigadier-General George H. Dean, South Australia ; Mr j H. Vaughan, South Australia; Bri-gadier-General Paine, New South Wales; Mrs Alice Emmerton, Melbourne, the latter a very prominent worker in philanthropic and charitable movement's and the Rk?d Cross.