KING’S BIRTHDAY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1939, Page 5

KING’S BIRTHDAY

BRITISH HONOURS

FIVE NEW BARONIES.

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LONDON, June 8

Honours conferred on tne occasion of rile official celebration of the S Railing's Birthday include the following :

BARONS Sir Arthur de Lapel 1 Brooke, Bart. Sir irreroeit Layzer, chairman of the House of Commons Shipping Committee since 1932. Captain Herbert Dixon, a member <of both the British and Northern Irelanu parliament since 1922, and Parliament Secretary to the Ministry of Finance in Northern Ireland since 1921. Sir Henry Lyons, F.R.S., Treasurer of the ltoyal Society and a former director of the Science Museum; Sir Frederick Marquis, a former member of,the Overseas Trade Development Council, and a member of the ... .Committee of Inquiry into Civil Avia- .. tion. /BHE MOST HONOUR ABLE ORDER i •,* rOF THE BATH, f ii,KNIGHT. GRAND, CROSS; (G.C.R.) i.j iifi Sjr Ronald. Lindsay, >P.C.,, G.C.M.G., • .K.C.8., C.V.0., British-Ambassador to the United States. • if ! Sir Samuel Findlater Stewart, G.C.1.E., K>.C;B;,. -C.S.r?, permanent Under-Secretary at the India Office. . THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. « • GEORGE! KNIGHT GRAND CROSS (G.C.M.G.) Sir Edward Harding, K.C.8., K.C.M.G., permanent Under-Secretary at'the Dominions Office. KNIGHTS COMMANDER (K.C.M.G.) Sir Humphrey Waiwyn, IvC.S.T,, C.B. chairman of the Commission of Government of Newfoundland. .Mr Edward Wilshaw, managing director of Cables and Wireless, Ltd. Major E. N. Crankshaw, secertary to ’ the British Government’s Hospital Fund. .' 1 j Sir Robert Hodgson, K.8.E., C.M.G., British Agent at Bturgos. Mr H. J. Seymour, C.M.G., C.V.0., British Minister at Teheran. ■ COMMANDERS (C.M.G.) Colonel Gilbert Mackereth, British Consul at Damascus. Mr E. H. G. Shepherd, British Consul General at Danzig. THE MOST. EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. KNIGHTS COMMANDER (K.8.E.) | ~, Mr Bernard Docher, chairman of 1 , Westminster Hospital. I Mr. Henry Fitomaurice, British ConsulrGeneral at Batavia. Mr James Gillan, secretary to the Sudan Government. COMMANDERS (C.8.E.) Mr Gordon Seton, author of many books on nature subjects. Mr Otto Moritz Schieff, chairman of the Jewish Aid Committee. 1 ; Mr A. H. King, British Consul at < Lisbon. 1 Mr 0. F. N. Thavenot, Judicial Adviser to the Siamese Ministry of 1 Justice. f Mr F. R. Gibb, British Consul at Addis Ababa. ’ MEMBER (M.8.E.) j Mr Harold Levison, British Vice- ' Consul at Penang. KNIGHTS BACHELOR (Kt.) s Professor Owen Richardson, whose work on the emission of electrons fromj 1 a heated filament has been , a valuable contribution to the progress of radio and television.

Dr Thomas Drummond Shiels, Un-der-Secretary of State for India, and later for, the . Colonies; in Mr Ramsay second : Labour. Administration •.

- .Mr Philip Edward Haldin, chairman of Haldin and Phillips, shipowners. Mr Francis Carnegie, chief superintendent of Ordnance Factories at the War Office.

Mr Alas Beerbohm, the 'famous caricaturist and essayist.; •

ORDER OF THE COMPANIES OF HONOUR (C.H.). Dr G. P. Gooch, the well-known historian. Mr 3. J. Mallon, one of the Governors of the British Broadcasting Corporation. PRIVY COUNSELLOR (P.C.) 'Mr llenvald Ranujbotharn, newlyappointed First Commissioner of Works. . Mr dames Stuart, M.P., Scottish Conservative Whip in the House of Commons. DUKE OF KENT PROMOTED. LONDON, June 7. In the King’s Birthday honours, the Duke of Kent is promoted to the ranks of Bear-Admiral, Major General, and Air Vice-Marshal. HONOURS IN AUSTRALIA. COMMONWEALTH LIST. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, June 8. The fving’s; Birthday (honours include the following:— THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. KNIGHT COMMANDER (K.8.E.) .The, Hon. George Stephenson Beeby, Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration—

KNIGHT COMM AN UC.lt (KT.j Air i>oiinun ji>veraru .uioukes, president or tue i.awn 'jLenms Association ol Australia. Air Gerald Aiussen, director of Associated Pulp and Taper Aluls, Ltd., and cuairinan of ilie Feaeral citrus Association. Professor Ernest Scott, the Australian historian and journalist, formerly professor of history at Aielbounie University. NEW SOUTH THE MOST EXCELLENT ORhER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. KNiGHT COMMANDER (K.8.E.) The Hon Pemvai liaise Rogers, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. KNIGHT COMMANDER (KT.) Alderman Norman Lindfield Nock, Lord Alayor of Sydney. VICTORIAN LIST. KNIGHT BACHELOR (K.T.) The Hon. William Charles Artgliss, M.L.C., a prominent Australian industrialist. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LIST. THE MOST DISTINGUISHED' ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. KNIGHT COMMANDER (K.C.M.G.) Mr Richard Layton Butler, former Premier of South Australia.