TWO KNIGHTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23367, 8 June 1939, Page 10

TWO KNIGHTS

NEW HONOURS BIRTHDAY LIST NOTABLE PEOFESSOES SEVEBAL AUCKLANDEBS His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Gal way, has announced that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of tho celebration of his birthday, to confer the following honours, in recognition of services rendered to tho Dominion: — CIVIL DIVISION K.B.E. (Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Professor William Blaxland Benham, D.Sc. (London), M.A. (Oxford), F.R.S., F.R.S.N.Z., Professor Emeritus, Otago University, Dunedin. Professor Thomas Alexander Hunter, M.A., M.Sc., of Wellington. C.M.G. (Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George) Mr. Henry Tai Mitchell, of Rotorua. Mr. Arthur Tyndall, Under-Secretary, Mines Department, and Director of Housing Construction, Wellington. 0.8. E. (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of tho British Empire) Mr. Norman Edwin Hutchings, Assistant Under-Secretary, Public Works Department, Wellington. 0.8. E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Miss Janet Rhoda Barr, of Wellington, late principal of the Girls' High School, Timaru. Mother Mary Gonzaga, matron, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Auckland. Colonel William Douthwaite Holgate, of Auckland. M.B.E. (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Miss Teresa Butler, late matron of the hospital, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Miss Mary Blythe Law, late teacher in New Zealand Institute for tho Blind, Auckland. Miss Blanche Eleanor Camachan, J.P., of Auckland. Mr. Frank Reed, of Auckland, formerly Government chief inspector of mines. MILITARY DIVISION 0.8. E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Flight-Lieutenant ' Cyril Eyton Kay, R.N.Z.A.F., of Auckland. M.B.E. (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Mr. Albert John Lee, Commissioned Engineer, R.N., of Auckland. Captain David Nicol, district ordnance officer, southern military district, Chris tchurch. Biographies and photographs of recipients of honours appear on page 13.