IN AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 11

IN AUSTRALIA

SEVERAL RECIPIENTS

DISTINGUISHED SERVICES ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD By Telegraph—Press •Association —Copyright CANBERRA, May 11 The following honours have been conferred on prominent Australians on the occasion of the Coronation :—- PRIVY COUNCILLORS Lord Gowrie, Governor-General of the Commonwealth. G.C.B. Knight- Grand Cro.su, Order of (he Bath. Sir Isaac Isaacs, first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. G.C.M.G. Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Robert Garran, constitutional authority and book censor. K.C.M.G. Knights Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Frederick Wollaston Mann, Chief Justice of Victoria. Dr. John Richard Harris, Victorian Minister of Health. K.B.E. Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire. Mr. John Sanderson, of London, director of the Bank of Australasia. KNIGHT BACHELOR Mr. Ernest Thomas Fisk, chairman of Amalgamated Wireless of Australia. Mr. Samuel Sydney Cohen, president of the Sydney Civic Reform Association. Mr. William James Clemens, who retired from the chairmanship of the Commonwealth Public Service Board last month. Mr. James Wallace Sandford, managing director of A. W. Sandford and Company, general merchants, of Adelaide. Major.Henry Alan Currie, M.L.C., a leading Victorian grazier. Mr. Alexander George Wales, M.L.0., Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Professor R. W. Chapman, Professor of Engineering at Adelaide University. ENGLISH KNIGHTHOODS BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS REWARDS FOR DIPLOMATS (Received May 11, 0.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, May 10 Other recipients of knighthoods in the Coronation honours include the following:—Arnold Bax, musician; Muirhead Bone, artist; H. A. Dawson, president of the Law Society; William Bradshaw, president of the Co-opera-tive Wholesale Society; Major Fetherston Godley, chairman of the British Legion; E. C Forsdvke, director of the British Museum; Professor Mellanby, secretary of the Medical Research Council; Sir Godfrey Thomas, private secretary to the Duke of Gloucester. Sir Percy Loraine, British Ambassador to Turkey, and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, are promoted Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Knights Commander of the same order include Cecil Dormer, British Minister at Oslo; Norman King, Consul-General at Barcelona; George Ogilvie Forbes, until recently Charge d'Affaires at Valencia, and W. H. Robinson, assistant to the principal establishment of officers at the Foreign Office. Promotions in and appointments to the Royal Victorian Order include'the Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who become Dames Grand Cross. Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood and the Archbishop of Canterbury become a Knight Grand Cross. Among other women recipients of honours are Mrs. Cadbury, who becomes Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public and philanthropic services in Birmingham and Lady Barron, wife of the former British Minister at Addis Ababa, who is promoted Commander. FIJI RECIPIENTS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SUVA, May 11 Coronation honours conferred in Fiji include:— C.M.G. Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George. C, J. J. T. Barton, Colonial Secretary. 0.8. E. Officer, Order of the British Empiro. Mr. Simmonds, Government entomologist. M.B.E. Member, Order of the British Empire. Mrs. Willoughby Tottenham.