BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19496, 3 June 1925, Page 9

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

NEW ZEALAND RECIPIENTS. (Pee United Press Assooiathw.) WELLINGTON, June 2. His Excellency the Governor-General ha! been advised that his Majesty the Kin£ has been graciously pleased to confer th< following honours on the occasion of hi! birthday in recognition of conspicuous ser vices Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civi Division), (K.B.E.).—MAJOR-GENBRAf GEORGE STAFFORD RICHARDSON C. 8., C.M.G., C.8.E., Administrator of the mandated territory of Western Samoa. Knight Bachelor, the HONOURABLE JOHN HENRY HOSKING, K.C., latelj retired from the office of Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and wbi was reappointed temporarily. Companion of the Most Distinguishe 1 ' Order of St. Michael and St. Georg< (C.M.G.).—ALBERT CECIL DAY, Esq., C.8.E., official secretary to the GovernorGeneral of New Zealand. Major-General Richardson was /born It England in 18(59. He was a private soldier in the British Army and served in New Zealand from 185)1 to 1911 as Instructor and Director of Artillery. He was attached to the Imperial General Staff at the War Office in 1914, and served in France, 1914 (Chief of Staff R.N. Division, Antwerp and Gallipoli), and Salonika 1015-10. Ho was promoted to the 'rank of brigadier-general for services in the Held. He was General O.C. Administration and G.O.C. New Zealand Forces i® England 1917-18; G.O.C. Administration in New Zealand 1919-23; Administrator oi Western Samoa under thte League ol Nations mandate 1923. He was created C.B. in 1917, C.M.G. in 1918, and C. 8.8. 1919. Mr Justice Hosking was born In Penzance, Cornwall, and came out to Ancjtland with his parents in the yeat 1856 He -was educated in Auckland, and at the age of 10 was articled for five years to the late Mr Samuel Jackson, of Messrs Jackson and Russell, a firm whose name still flourishes in Auckland. In 1875 he was admitted in Auckland as a barristex and solicitor by thu late Mr Justice Gillies. Then he came to Dunedin a> managing clerk to Mr Kenyon, whom he joined as a partner in 1877. The firm wa« dissolved in 1898, after which Mr Justice Hoskipg carried on practice alone for 1C years, when he joined Mr John Cook in partnership. In June, 1907, he was appointed King’s Counsel, and in ISI3 lie was appointed by the Government to act with Mr A. MTntosh as a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Public Trust Office. Mr Justice Hosking was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in January, 1914.