PEERAGES CONFERRED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 5

PEERAGES CONFERRED

THIRTY NEW KNIGHTS COMPANION OF HONOUR FOR BLIND COMPOSER. (British Official Wireless.! (Received 1, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, Feb. 28. In the New Year Honours list peerages are conferred on the following :— Sir Jesse Boot, of the well-known firm of chemists, for services in the prpmition of education. Mr. Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, in consideration of the public, political and philanthropic services of his father, the late Mr. Urban Hanlon Broughton, whose election to the peerage would have been recommended to His Majesty but for his death on January 30 last. Mr. Urban Hanlon Broughton was a well-known British engineer and was engaged for many years in engineering. mining and railway work in the United States, becoming president of various big compani-s. Sir Berkelv Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons.

The nine recipients of baronetcies include Mr. Frederick Eckstein, chairman of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, for services to the Sudan • Mr. William Horne, chairman of the Prudential Assurance Co.; Mr. Alexander Park Lyle, chairman of the Lyle Shipping Co., for services in connection with the Scottish National War Memorial: and Mr. William Morris, chairman of Morris Motors. THIRTY NEW KNIGHTS. Thirty new knights are appointed, mostly for political and public services. They include Mr. Alliott Roe, for distinguished services to British aviation. Among other honours are the following :— Order of the Bath (Military Division') Knights Grand Cross: Admiral Sir Osmond de Brock, General Sir Walter Braithwaite, and General Sir John Shea, General Officer Commanding in the Chief Eastern Command of India Order of the Star of India. Knigbt Grand Commander: Sir Leslie Wilson, late Governor of Bombay. Most Eminent Order of the British Empire, Knight Grand Commander: His Highness Maharaja Sir Hari Singh. (Continued on foot next column)

Order of St. Michael and St. George. Knights Grand Cross; BrigadierGeneral Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies, and Sir George Clark, Ambassador at Constantinople. Knights Commanders; Sir Ronald Storrs. Governor of Cyprus; Robert Greg, Minister at Bucharest; and Mr Howard Kennard, Minister at Belgrade. Order of the British Empire. Knights Grand Cross: Air ViceMarshal Sir Phillip Game and Sir Henry Dobbs, High Commissioner of Iraq. Dame Grand Cross: Mrs Alfred Lyttelton. Dames Commander. The Dames Commander include Mrs Laura Knight, Associate of the Royal Academy; Professm Annie Mcllroy. Professor of Obstetnes at the Royal Free Hospital. Knight Commander: John Pratt, one of the Consuls-General in China. The Commanders include Professor Winifred Cullis, Professor of Physiology at the Royal Free Hospital. Companions of Honour: Lady Burgett Dean of the London School of Medicine for Woi.rsn; Miss Lillian Baylis, lessee and manager of the Old Vic Theatre: Frederick Delius, the blind composer. A FURTHER LIST. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 1. 1.50 p.m.) London, Feb. 28. The New Y’ear Honours include:— Knight Commander of th© Order of St. Michael and St. George: Justice Frank Gavan Duffy. Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George: LieutenantColonel Clive Latham Bailleu, Australian representative at the Wireless Conference; Dr. John Howard Cumpston. Commonwealth Health Director; Maurice Francis Hendlam, acting chairman of the Pacific Cable Board. Order of the British Empire. Commander: Louis Bernhardt Beale, New Zealand Trade Commissioner. Deme Commander; Alida Luisa Ladv Brittain, wife of Sir Harry Brittain. Knights Batchelor; George Alfred Julius, of the Council of Industrial Research; Norman William Kater, ex-chairman of the Pastoral Advisory Committee; Daniel Levy, the New South Wales Speaker; Professor Augusto Bartolo. Labour Minister and Malta (who was recently in Australia).