NEW YEAR HONOURS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2062, 3 January 1925, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

EARLDOM TO LORD JELLICOE. TWO KNIGHTHOODS CONFERRED The Governor-General announces that His Majesty has been graciously pleased,' on the occasion of the New Year, 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 His Majesty has been pleased to confer the following honours on the gentlemen whose names are given below:—- - K.C.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 Wormeiey Curtis, M.C. —Lately private secrectary to Viscount Jellicoe. The new honour conferred upon Earl Jellicoe will be fully appreciated by the people of Now Zealand as a well merited tribute to the Dominion’s popular ex-Goveruoi’-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 his distinguished service in New Zealand, added to lus work in the navy, make the award of fresh honours appropriate and popular. Sir J. C. Parr has been Minister for Education and Justice slnee 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 Sir Truby King will be warmly applauded.. As a specialist in mental diseases he was for long periods superintendent of the Wellington mental hospital and the Sea cliff Asylum, but lie is best known to-day as the founder and organiser of the New Zealand. Plunket Society. In this capacity he has led a. movement which is conferring endless benefit on the community, and which has established a model service to’ benefit the health ol women and children—a system which is recognised as a pattern for the civilised world. Sir Trubv King has gained such world-wide fame in this connection that the Government recently lent, his services for tho organisation of similar work in England.