BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 11

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

TWO KNIGHTHOODS. REWARD FOR SERVICES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Juno 7. His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral has announced that His Majesty the Tving has hcen graciously pleased, on the occasion of the celebration of his birthday, to confer the following honours in recognition of services rendered to the Dominion: CIVIL DIVISION. KNIGHT COMMANDED OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (K.8.E.) PROFESSOR "WILLIAM BLAXLAND BENHAAI, Professor Emeritus, Otago University College, Dunedin. PROF-SSOr ' THOMAS ALEXANDER HUNTER,. "Wellington. COMPANION OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE (C.M.G.). HENRY TAI MITCHELL, Rotorua. ARTHUR TYNDALL, Under-Secre-tary of the Al ines Department and Director of Housing Construction, Wellington. COMMANDER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (C.8.E.): NORMAN EDWIN HUTCHINGS, Assistant. Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department, Wellington. OFFICER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (0.8. E.): MISS JANE R HOD A BARR, Wellington, late principal of the Girls’ High School, Timaru. MOTHER MAIIV GONZAOA, matron of tlm Maler Misericordiao Hospital, Auckland. COLONEL WILLIAM DOUTIIWAITE HOLGATE, Auckland. MEMBER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (M.8.E.): MISS TERESA BUTLER, late matron of the hospital at Rarotonga, Cook Islands. MISS MARY BLYTHE LAW, late teacher in the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland. MISS BLANCHE ELEANOR. CARNACHAN, J.E.. Auckland. FRANK REED. Auckland, formerly Government Chief' Inspector of M ines. MILITARY DIVISION. OFFICER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (0.8. E.): FLIGHT - LIEUTENANT CYRIL EYTON KAY, R.N.Z.A.E., Auckland. MEMBER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (M'.B.E.); ALBERT JOHN LEE, Commissioned Engineer, R.N., Auckland. 1 CAPTAIN DAVID XICOL, District Ordnance Officer, Southern Military District, Christchurch. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. SIR THOMAS HUNTER, K.B.E. As Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, a position which lie has held since 1929. Professor Sir Thomas .Hunter, K.8.E., is executive head of' the university. He is also principal of Victoria University College, Wellington, a recently-created post, and has been professor of mental and moral philosophy at Victoria College for many years. Born in London in 1876, Sir Thomas Hunter came to New Zealand at an early age and was educated at the Port Chalmers High School and the University of Otago, where lie graduated bachelor of arts in 1898. in the same year he - was awarded the University of Now Zealand senior scholarship in mental science. He graduated master of arts with first-class honours in mental science in 1899, bachelor ol' science in 19U3, and master of science, in 1904. He was appointed senior housemaster and assistant master at theWaitaki Hoys’ High School ill 1899, and in 1904 became lecturer in mental science and economics at Victoria College, Wellington. .In 1907 lie was appointed professor of philosophy and economics, and oil the establishment of a separate department of economics in 1909 continued as professor of philosophy, a pnstiion which lie still holds. He has been a member of the Victoria University College Council since 1920, and was chairman of the professorial board in 1911, 1912, 1920 and 1921. A member of the council of Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North, from 1923 till recently, lie served as its chairman for over two years. Ho became a member of the Senate of the University of New Zealand in 1912, and Vice-Chancellor in 1929. Sir Thomas lias taken a keen interest in adult education. He was president of tlm Workers’ Educational Association from 19.16 to 1919, and was director of tutorial classes from 1924 to 1929. He is chairman of the Council of Adult Education set up some time ago by the Government, and lias been president since its inception over four years ago of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. The author of many pamphlets and articles to periodicals on philosophical, educational, economic, political and allied subjects. Sir I Thomas Hunter has been a member of the International Committee of (lie Congress of Psychology since 1029, and was president of the Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy in 1927.

MR HENRY TAI MITCHELL, C.M.G. _ _ | One of the best known Maoris in New Zealand, Air Henry Tai Mitchell, has for years played a prominent part in Native affairs in the Bay of Plenty district. After spending many years as a. surveyor, first with the Lands and Survey Department, and later on bis own account, bo joined the Native Department in 1926 as judge’s assistant and consolidation officer. Since the inception of the, Arawa. District Trust Board, lie lias been chairman. He lias also identified himself with the preservation of natural scenery in the Rotorua Lake district, and lias always taken an active interest in the welfare of liis race. He lias been a member of the Rotorua Borough Council lor Uio last three terms. AIR A. TYNDALL, C'.AI.C. Air A. Tyndall, who is Under-Secre-tary of the Department of Alines and Director of Housing Construction, is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, an associate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, a solicitor of the Supremo Court, and has made a study of accountancy. He was appointed to the former position in December, 1934, and in 1936 was given charge of the Housing Construction Department as well. Before his appointment as Under-Secretary of Alines lie was chief engineer to the Alain Highways Board for nine years. He was born in Dunedin in 1891, and was an engineer in the Public Works Department till 1914, when he became assistant-engineer to the Dunedin City Council. In 1915 lie rejoined the department, and after being engineer in charge of construction at the Featherslon military camp and works engineer at Trentham camp he became engineer in charge of public works in Western Samoa. In 1923 he toured and studied in tlie United States of America, Great Britain, and Europe. AIR N. E. HUTCHINGS, C.B.E. Mr N. E. Hutchings is the youngest son of th(> late Air and Airs E. A. Hutchings, Whangarei, and Alount Albert, Auckland. He joined the Public Works Department in Whangarei as a cadet in 1916. After some years’ service in the Whangarei office of the department and on the North Auckland railway construction works, he was transferred to the head office in Wellington in 1921. In 1926 lie was appointed a. Ministerial private secretary and served in that capacity to six successive Ministers of Public Yorks. In 1937 Air Hutchings relinquished the position of private secretary to the Alinister and returned to the department to occupy flic position of head office chief clerk. In 1938 he was promoted to the head clerical position ol the Public Works Department, that of Assistant Under-Secre-tary, which position he still occupies. COLONEL AY. D. HOLGATE, 0.8. E. A conspicuous part in the development of coni mining in the Auckland province has hcen played by Colonel I AY. D. Holgate, Auckland. Since 1926 | lie has boon president of the New Zea- | Inn cl Goal Aline Owners’ Association, | and he is at present enliirinan of the i Devonport Steam Ferry Company, Limited, and director of many other concerns. Colonel Holgate was horn in Yorkshire in 1862, and came to New Zealand in 1S90 ; after having spent some years in Victoria, where he was pTominent in military circles. He pioneered the mounted rifles movement in Auckland. AIR F. REED, A1.8.E. ATr F. Reed, AT.lnst. ALAL (Loud.), was born in Stockton on Tees, Durham, England, in 1863. Educated at High;ito School, London, and at Durham University, lie served an apprenticeship of four years as a mining engineer with a, company subsequently amalgamated with Dorman, Long, Ltd. Early in ISSS lie came to New Zealand and was appointed manager of the newlyformed Alokihimii Coal Co., Buller coalfield, where ho developed a colliery and constructed a railway and wharf, later discovering and' taking up for himself and friends the area now known ns the Seddonville coalfield. Tn 1891 he went to West Australia and was appointed engineer to the Public Works Department. Upon the discovery of the famous Coolgardic and Kalgoorlie goldfields, Air Rood was appointed tlm first AVesfc Australian Government Inspector of Alines for the central goldfields, and the State coalfields. Alter working in Colorado, iU.S.A., Afr Reed was appointed inspecting engineer to the New Zealand Alines Department. AH Reed is a member of the .Institute of Alining and Afetallurg.v, London, a licensed surveyor of New Zealand, A\ est Australia and Tasmania, and a first class certificate mine manager of England and New Zealand. COALMISSIONED ENGINEER A. J. LEE, A1.8.E. Long service with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy has marked tlie career of Commissioned-Engin-eer A. J. Lee, engineer officer of 11.A1.5. Philomel and assistant manager of the Devonport naval base and repair dockyard, lie entered the Royal Navy in 1915, and saw active service in the old 11.A1.5. Leandcr and in the destroyers Sylvia and Marmion, with the Grand Fleet. He first came to New Zealand as a member of the crew which brought 11.A1.5. Chatham to New Zealand in 1921 to act ns a training ship for New Zealand, and he later served m the Dunedin and the Diomede, before returning to England in 1928. He came back again in 1932. CAPTAIN DAVID NICOL, A1.8.E. Captain David Nicol lias since 1934 occupied the dual position of ordnance officer, Southern Military District, and officer-in-chargo of Burnham Afili- ' lary Camp. Born in Cathcart, Scotland, in 1801, lie served as a young man’with the 145th Field Battery. Territorial Army (Scotland). Coming t n New Zealand in 1912, Captain Nicol was in ill-health when the Great War was declared, but enlisted in the Seventh Reinforcements in 1915. He joined the New Zealand Ordnance Corps in 1918. and till 1934 was stationed at Trentham Alilitarv Camp. He was transferred to Burnham in lvi.s present dual position in 1934. __________