JUNE HONOURS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 157, 4 June 1929, Page 7

JUNE HONOURS

A LENGTHY LIST. HIS MAJESTY’S FAVOUR. DRAMA, LITERATURE AND PUBLIC SERVICES. (United Press Association.—By Electric* Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 3. The King’s Birthday honours list—in addition to the Earldom conferred on Lord Inclicape and the Viscoun*ty on Mr W. C. Bridgeman—is as follows: The following aro to be Viscounts: Baron Hailsham, Lord Chancellor; Field-Marshal Baron Plumer . Baronies are conferred on Sir William Berry, chairman of Allied Newspapers, Limited; Colonel Sir Edward Brotherton, formerly member of Parliament for Wakefield; Sir Robert Sanders, formerly Minister of Agriculture ; Sir William Tyrrell, British Ambassador at Paris. The following are to be Privy Councillors: Baron Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-Ordinary to the King; Major Hills, M.P., Sir Ellis HumeWilliams, 1v.C.,; Dr. Earle Page. Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia; Colonel Spender Clay, M.P. Eleven baronetcies are conferred. Those honoured include Sir Arthur Balfour, chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade ; Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, Physician Extra- . ordinary to tho King; Colonel Sir Hugh Rigby, Sergeant Surgeon to the King. Those on whom Knighthoods are conferred include Mr Gordon Craig, chairman of tho New Era National Pictures, Limited, and Portable Talking Pictures, Limited; Mr Ben Greet, actor and producer of Shakespearean , plays; Mr Peter Chalmers Mitchell, secretary of the Zoological Society 1 ; Mr James Headlam Morley, lately Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office; Mr Roland Nugent, director of the Federation of British Industries; Mr Robert Weis ford, president of the Law Society; Mr Robert Stanton Woods, physician (for services during the King’s illness). Several knighthoods aro conferred for public and political services. They include Mr Kelso King, for public services to the State of New South Wales; Mr James McDonald, president of the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines; Professor Colin McKenzie, director of the National Museum of Australian Zoology, Sydney; Mr William Herbert Phillipps, chairman of the Savings’ Bank, South Australia. The India list includes fourteen Knighthoods. For services in the Colonies and Protectorates the following are to be knighted: Colonel Cornwallis, Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Irak; Mr Robert Furness, Chief Justice of Barbadocs; Mr Nine Mate Kole, unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast Colony; Mr Michael McDonnell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Palestine; Mr Michael Whitley, AttorneyGeneral, Straits Settlements. In the Order of the Bath a number of promotions and appointments of naval and military officers are recorded. Lord Lee of Fareham, who gave Chequers to the nation for the use of the Prime Ministers as a country seat, is promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of this Order. New Knights-Com-manders of the Order are Sir Ronald Lindsay, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Mr Robert Vansittart, principal private secretary to the Prime Minister, and Sir Stanley Hewett, Surgeon to the King. The Order.of Merit is conferred on ■Dr. Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate, in recognition of his eminent position in the world of literature, and on Mr John Galsworthy for his services to literature and drama.

Mr Alscount Moschen, Governor of Madras, becomes a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India. Appointments to the Order of St. Michael and St. Georgo include Sir John Cadman, chairman of the Anglo : Persian Oil Company; Sir Maurice Ilankey, Secretary to Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy Council; and Sir George Graliame, British Ambassador at Madrid. ADDITIONAL LIST. (Australian Press Association—United Service.) LONDON, June 3.

Additional honours for His Majesty’s medical attendants are as follow: C.V.O. —Dr. Lionel Whitby, bacteriologist; Dr. H. Graham Hodgson, radiologist; Dr. ELowitt, ray-therapist. Victorian Order (fourth class). —Dr. Dodds, professor of biochemistry. Other honours are: K.C.M.G. —Mr Justice Powers, of the Australian High Court. K.B.E.—Dr. Richard R. Stawell, consulting physician at Melbourne Hospital.