HONOURS CONFERRED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22744, 3 December 1935, Page 9

HONOURS CONFERRED

INVESTITURE AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 2. The Governor-General (Viscount Galway) held an investiture at' Government House to-night, at "which he conferred the honour of knighthood upon Mr E. A. Ransom, investing him with the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. His Excellency also invested Major-general Sir William Sinclair-Burgess with the insignia of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and ho conferred upon Brigadier-general Sir Herbert Hart the honour of knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the same Order. Later the Governor-General presented to Sir Francis Frazer the Royal Letters Patent conferring upon him the degree, title and dignity of a knight bachelor. Lord Galway subsequently presented insignia and decorations to the following ladies and 'gentlemen:— C.B.—Colonel F. Symon, Wellington. C.M.G.—Mr G. A. Lewin, Dunedin; Mr T. C. A. Hislop, Wellington; Professor J. R. Elder, Dunedin. C.B.E.—Mr R. P. Ward, Greytown; Colonel W. H. Cunningham, Wellington; Colonel H. C. Hurst, Christchurch; Dr E. Marsden, Wellington; Dr M. H. Watt, Wellington. 0.8. E K. L. Stewart, Dunedin. 1.5.0. —Mr A. E. Allison, Wellington. M.B.E.—Mrs M. H. Chatfield, Weilington; Mrs A. I. Fraer, Christchurch; Miss E. A. Howes, Christchurch; Mr J. C. Andersen, Wellington; Mr A. K. Bell, Wellington; Mr W. Bromley, Wellington; Captain P. W. G. Spiers, Dunedin. Colonial Auxiliary Forces, Officers’ Decoration. —Major R. Gardner, Welling ton; Major J. P. E. Veale, Christchurch Efficiency Decoration.—Major J. J Kean, Wellington; Major E; M. Stacs Wellington. The investiture was followed by f reception and musical evening.