ROYAL HONOURS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 7

ROYAL HONOURS

BESTOWED BY KING. BRITISH RECIPIENTS. FOUR NEW PEERS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 4, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, June 3. His Majesty King George V. to-day celebrated his 69th birthday. In the list of Birthday Honours the following names appear:— VISCOUNT. Lord Wakefield. PEERS. Lord Alness, Sir Hugo Hirst, Mr Gerald Loder, the Earl of Lucan. PRIVY COUNCILLOR. Mr R. A. Eden. KNIGHT. Professor Grafton Elliot Smith. BARONET. Sir Julien Cahn. GRAND CROSS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Sir Alan Anderson, Sir John Reith. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. Lord Charles Cheers Wakefield, the first baron, the well-known English industrialist was born in 1859 and entered the oil business to found the firm bearing his name. He entered the Common Council of the city, was Sherriff in 1907-08 and Lord Mayor in 191516. Having been knighted in_ 1908, he was made a baronet in 1917 and a baron i»i 1930 Among his many interests are motor-car and aircraft racing and he has written on the choice of a career. Lord Alness, Rt. Hon. Robert Munro, P.C., K.C., has been Lord JusticeClerk since 1922. Born in 1868, he is the son of a Ross-shire Free Church minister and studied for the law. In 1919 he was elected a Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland. He was Counsel to the Inland Revenue, Advocate-Dispute, and Lord Advocate in succession, and from 1916-22 was Secretary for Scotland. From 1910 to 1918 he was M.P. for Wick Burghs and till 1922 for Roxburgh and Selkirk. He is an Hon. Bencher of Lincolns Inn and a Freeman of the city of Edinburgh. Sir Hugo Hirst is chairman and managing director of the great General Electric Co. He was a member of the Board of Trade advistory council 192526, and on the Committee on Co-opera-tive Selling in the Coal Industry in 1926. Lord Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, LL.B., J.P., 8.L., is chairman of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Co. He was admitted a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1888, private secretary to the President of the Local Government Board for the next four years, to Lord George Hamilton (Secretary of State for India) from 1896-01, and a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1889-05. He was Conservative M.P. for Brighton. 1889-05. The fifth Earl of Lucan, George Charles Bingham, lias had a splendid war, civio and diplomatic career. In .the eighties he served in the Becliuanaland expedition, and was in the Great War for the first two years Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, lie had command of a number of British regiments. From 1904-06 he was M.P. for the Cliertsey Division, Surrev; he was A.D.C. to the King from 1920 till 1928 and a Lord-in-Waiting for the first four of those years. He holds the Order of St. Stanislaus d Russia (2nd class) and the Order of the Nile (3rd class). Mr R. A. Eden, Lord Privy Seal, lias been much in the limelight in recent months as joint leader with Sir John Simon (Foreign Secretary) of the British delegation to the Disarma ment Conference at Geneva. He holds the rank of captain, awarded in the war, and gained the Military Cross. Mr Eden, who has been Conservative M.P. for Warwick and Leamington since 1923, was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Under-Secreta-ries for Home and Foreign Affairs in succession, and until he was appointed Lord Privy Seal he was Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs. • Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., Ch.M., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., is professor of anatomy in the University of London. Born in Grafton (New South Wales), he studied at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge and had a remarkably distinguished career in the anatomical realm, publishing several works of authority. Sir Julien Cahn lias been associated prominently with English cricket for many, years and has fielded many prominent teams. Roger Blunt, the New Zealand cricketer, went home to join one of such teams. His hospitality .in entertaining visiting teams is well-known. Sir Alan Anderson, K.8.E., is a prominent British industrialist. He is a director of the Bank of England, the Suez Canal Company, a manager of the Orient Line, and vice-president of the International Chamber of Commerce. Sir John Reith, Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, has, since the inauguration of Empire broadcasting, become a prominent figure in radio. He is stated to be virtual dictator of the 8.8.C.’s policy. AUSTRALIANS HONOURED. AIRWDMAN INCLUDED. SYDNEY, June 3. Birthday honours include tire following : K.C.M.G. —Mr Claude H. Reading, chairman of the Commonwealth Bank. Mr John C. McPliee, former Premier of Tasmania. K.B.E. —Mr Philip H. Goldfinch, general manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. K.B.—Mr Robert Knox, chairman of the Associated Chambers of Manufacturers Company. Among the women upon whom the M.B.E. nas been conferred is Mrs H Bonney, who was the first woman to fly from Australia to England. Sir Claude Reading. K.C.M.G., was born in Sydney in 1874. He is chairman of directors of the Commonwealth Bank and managing-director of several companies. He has been a prominent member of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce for many years, was a memof the Commonwealth Board of Trade in 1919, and deputy-chairman of the Board of Business Administration of the Defenco Department in 1918. Sir John McPhee, K.C.M.G., was born in Victoria in 1878. He commenced work in a newspaper office and later established Remington’s Business College in Hobart, carrying it on for 15 years. He became a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1919, Minister for Railways in 1922-23, and then Premier, Treasurer and Minister Controlling the Hydro-Electrical Department in 1928. He retained the Premiership until he

retired from political life a few months ago. Sir Philip Goldfinch, K.8.E., was born in Gosport (Hampshire) in 1884, being a son of Lieut. H. E. Goldfinch, R.N., later of Christchurch, New Zealand. After being educated at the Sydney Grammar School he joined the service of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., in 1902. He has been general manager since 1928. Mrs Hilda Bonney, M.8.E., who is a Queensland pilot, has two claims to fame. She is the first woman to have flown round Australia, a journey of 8000 miles, which she made in 1932, and the first woman to fly from Australia to England, a feat which she accomplished last year. Her machine was a Moth (Gipsy I engine), and was the one used by Squadron-Leader C. W. Hill when he made his famous attempt on the England-Australia record and crashed at Timor, on the last stage of the journey, when well ahead of the record. FIJIAN RECIPIENTS. Received June 4, 1.10 p.m. SUVA, June 4. The Birthday Honours include the following: K.B. —Captain' Maxwell Anderson, Chief Justice of Fiji. M.B.E. —Mr Norman Casey, Superintendent of Prisons, Fiji.