NEW BARONETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23060, 10 June 1938, Page 11

NEW BARONETS

ME. HACKING INCLUDED CONSERVATIVE CHAIRMAN ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD LOYAL SERVICES REWARDED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright British Wireless RUGBY, June 8 Among the six new baronets in the Birthday honours list is Mr. Douglas Hacking, who has been chairman of the Conservative Party since 1936.

One of the 35 Knights Bachelor appointed mostly for loyal political and public services is Dr. Cyril Norwood, headmaster of Harrow from 1926 to 1934, and now president of St. John's college. Oxford, also Dr. S. H. Nicholson, for services to church music. Knighthoods of the Order of the Bath include the G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross) for General Sir Edmund Ironside and Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, and K.C.B. (Knight Commander) for Sir Cosmo Parkinson, Permanent Under-Secretary, Colonial Office.

Knighthoods of the Order of St. Michael and St. George are the G.C.M.G. (Knight Grand Cross) for Sir Howard Kennard, British Ambassador at Warsaw, and the K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander) for the Hon. C. C. Farquharson Dundas, Governor of the Bahamas; Mr. D. J. Jardine, Governor of Sierra Leone; and Mr. H. B. Popham, Governor of the Windward Islands. The Sultan ol Selangor His Highness, the Sultan Hisamund Din Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, is appointed an honorary member, second class, or Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. C. M. Palairet, until recently British Minister at Vienna, is promoted K.C.M.G., and Mr. E. Millington Drake, British Minister at Montevideo, becomes C.M.G.

Among other appointments and promotions in this Order of members of the diplomatic and consular services are several which recall arduous and difficult work which conditions in the Far East have involved for their recipients. Services in the Far East

Mr. A. D. Blackburn, Chinese counsellor at the British Embassy in China, and Mr. Herbert Phillips, British Con-sul-General of Shanghai, are awarded the K.C.M.G. The C.M.G. is conferred on Mr. A. H. George, commercial secretary at the British Embassy in China, Mr. E. L. Hall-Patch, financial adviser to the British Embassies both at Tokio and China, Major "W* A. Lovat-Fraser, military attache in China, and Mr. H. I. Prideaux-Brune, a British Consul in China.

In the Order of the British Empire, too, a number of appointments recall disturbed conditions in the Far East. Mr. R. Calder Marshall, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, is appointed K.B.E. (Knight Commander). The C.B.E. (Commander) is conferred on Mr. J. L. Maxwell, general secretary of the International Red Cross Committee for Central China. Miss M. Josephine de Juan, a »clerk in the British Embassy at Barcelona, receives the M.B.E. (Member).

AUSTRALIAN TITLES ADDITIONAL RECIPIENTS SYDNEY, Juno 9 Additional Australian recipients of Birthday honours are: — KNIGHT. BACHELOR Mr. Justice Orisp, senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. 0.8. E. Officer, Order of British Empire Mr. William Henry Jeanes, manager of the Australian cricket team now in England.