NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18750, 2 January 1923, Page 6

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

The allocation of honours to New Zea* land upon the advent of the New Year is on a somewhat more liberal scale than usual. One or two names that might have been expected to be included among those of recipients of marks of the Royal favour do not, however, appear in the list. Sir Francis Dillon Bell is promoted to a higher grade of knighthood than that bestowed on him a few years ago, and he now shares with Sir Thomas Mackenzie the distinction, not enjoyed by any other New Zealander, of wearing the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Mr Harold Beauchamp, for many years chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, has been created a Knight Bachelor, and Mr George Elliot, who became a member of the board of the bank only three years ago and is now its chairman, has also received the same honour. The Companionship of the Order of St. Michael and St. George has been bestowed on Mr Edward Newman, who occupied a seat in the House of Representatives during the three last Parliaments and is regarded as likely to be called to the Legislative Council, and on Colonel Tate, who was for some years Administrator of the mandated territory of Samoa ; and the Companionship of the Order of the British Empire has been conferred on Mr W. B. Montgomery, who has been a highly efficient Controller of Customs, from which office he will, it is understood, retire at an early date; on Dr Pickerill, who has rendered valuable service as Director of the Dental School of Otago University; and on Mr Bernard Tripp, in recognition of his services in connection with the Red Cross; and Mr

W. Foster, a well-known school teacher in Wellington, is made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. To the bestowal of none of these distinctions can exception be legitimately taken, but the names will readily occur to most people of other prominent residents of the dominion who seem to have been rather unaccountably overlooked and in whose case the recommendation for an honour as the gift of the Crown may be said to be overdue.