HONOURED BY KING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20761, 2 January 1931, Page 9

HONOURED BY KING.

FOUR NEW PEERAGES.

SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD.

RECOGNITION OF LEARNING. ■ MANY KNIGHTHOODS GIVEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received January 1, 10.15 p.m.) British Wirelesa. RUGBY, Dec. 31. The chief honours conferred by King George at the New Year are as follows: PEERAGES. Sir John Hindley, commercial adviser to the Department of Mines. Sir Ernest Lamb, a former member of Parliament, and member of the Corporation of the City of London. Sir William Plender, past-president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, who has presided over many committees air] Royal Commissions on commercial and financial questions. Sir Ernest Rutherford, the physicist and authority on radio activity, a former President of the Royal Society. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Mr. Thomas Kennedy, chief Labour Whip. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Transport. Sir George Perley, former Canadian High Commissioner and now Minister without portfolio in the Canadian Government. BARONETCIES. Sir John Bradford, president of the Royal College of Physicians. Mr. Ernest Debenham, a director of Lloyd's Bank. Sir Richard Gregory, the astronomer, and editor of Nature. Sir George May, a member of the council of the Institute of Actuaries. Mr. George Roberts, who, under the pseudonym of " Audax," gave £IOO,OOO to hospitals as a thanksgiving offer for the recover of the health of Ilis Majesty. ORDER OF MERIT. Admiral Sir Charles Madden, for his distinguished services in peaco and war. Mr. Philip Sheer, in recognition of his

position as a painter and teacher in the art. KNIGHTHOODS. Mr. Norman Angell, writer. Mr. William Goodchild, secretary of the British delegation to the Reparation Commission. Dr. Graham Little, member of Parliament for London University. Mr. John McEwen, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Mr. Conrad Naef, Accountant-General to the Navy. Mr. David Owen, general manager of the Port of London Authority. Mr. Hugh Robertson, founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. Professor W. Rothenstein, Principal of tho Royal College of Art. Mr. James Sexton, Labour member of Parliament. Mr. Robert Young, Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons. Colonel Weston Jarvis, chairman of the Council of the Royal Empire Society. In tho general list thero are more than 20 other knighthoods for tho Dominions, India and tho colonies.

ORDER OP THE BATH. G.C.B. General Sir Robert Whingham, the King's aide-de-camp general. Sir Oswyn Murray, permanent secretary to tho Admiralty. K. 0.8. Vice-Admiral Kelly. Engineer Vice-Admiral Skelton. Mr. Frank Smith, secretary to the Royal Society. ORDER OP THE STAR OP INDIA. G.C.S.I. The Maharaja o! Udaipur. Tie Maharaja ol Kolhapur. K.C.S.I. The Prima Minister of Nepal, Maharaja General Shamsher Jang. ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE. G.C.M.G. | His Highness Tuauku Muhammad, of the Federated Malay States. Sir Frances Lindley, Ambassador at Lisbon. Sir Robert Vansittart, Permanent UnderSecretary of Foreign Affairs.

* K.C.M.G. Mr. Arthur W, Hill, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Dr. Montague John Rendall, chairman of the School Empire l'our Committee. Sir Harry Batterbee, Assistant Secretary to tho Dominions Office since 1925, and Political Secretary to the Duko of York during his tour of Australia and New Zealand. ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER. G.C.V.O. The Earl of Albermarle. Lord Woolavington, who won the Derby in 1922 and 1926. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. D.B.E. Lady Aberdeen, president of the International Council of Women. K.B.E. Mr. Wilmott Lewis, the Times correspondent at Washington. 0.8. E. Miss Major, head of Girton College, Cambridge. Miss Martindale, vice-president of the Medical Women's International Association. Prebendary Rudolf, founder of the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society. Professor Sidney Russ, for work on radium. Lady McMillan, for philanthropic services in Kenya. COMPANIONS 01' HONOUR: O.H. Mrs. Swanwick, former British delegate to the League of Nations and president of the Women's International League. Miss Walker, founder of the Medical Women's Association.

Sir Ernest Rutherford, now a peer, was born at Nelson in 1871, and was at Nelson College and Canterbury College. His parents live in New Plymouth. 110 took a degree in the New Zealand University with high honours, and went to Cambridge with an 1851 Exhibition scholarship for science. Ho has been since 1919 the director of the Cavendish laboratory. He is world famous for research into the electron and radio activity, and has been awarded the Nobel Prize, the Rumford, Copley and Franklin medals, aiiid honoured by tho leading universities of tho world. Ho married in 1900 Miss Mary Newton, of Christchurch., He was knighted in 1914, and awarded the Order of Merit in 1925.