BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22914, 23 June 1936, Page 10

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

THE NEW ZEALAND LIST MR JUSTICE REED AND DR ELLIOTT KNIGHTED MISS JEAN BATTEN INCLUDED (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 22. The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, has announced that the King has been graciously pleased on the occasion of his Majesty's birthday to confer the following honours in recognition of services rendered to the Dominion: — KNIGHT BACHELOR. [Kt.] JOHN RANKEN REED, C.8.E., senior judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. DR JAMES SANDS ELLIOTT, of Wellington. COMPANION OP ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. [C.M.G.] DANIEL VIOKERY BRYANT, of Te Rapa, Hamilton. CARL AUGUST BERENDSEN, LL.M., permanent head of the Prime Minister's Department and Secretary for External Affairs, Wellington.

OOMMANDEE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. [C.B.E.] MISS JEAN BATTEN, New Zealand aviatrix. SIR JAMES RANKEN REED A judge of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, Sir John Ratiken Reed. C.8.E., was bom at Ipswich, Queensland, in 1804, and was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and the Otago Boys' High School, afterwards going to Victoria College, Jersey, and Clare College, Cambridge. He served his articles in Auckland and was admitted as a barrister in 1887, practising in the Bay of Islands district until 1896, when he returned to Auckland. He was made Judge-Advocate-General in 1911, a K.C. in 1913, and a puisne judge in 1921, and at the present time he is acting Chief Justice in the absence of Sir Michael Myers. Sir John Ranken Reed was president of the Prisons Board in 1928 and was formerly a member of the Auckland Education Board. He is an ex-president of the Auckland District Law Society. SIR JAMES SANDS ELLIOTT Sir James Sands Elliott, of Wellington, was born at Randalstown, County Antrim, Ulster, in 1880, and received his early education at the Clyde Quay School and Wellington College. He graduated M.D., C'h.B., later continuing his studies at Edinburgh University. A fellow of the College of Surgeons of Australasia and the American College of Surgeons, Sir James Elliott has hold many important positions in the medical world of New Zealand. He was formerly editor of the Xew Zealand Medical Journal, a member of the Board of Health, and the Xew Zealand Medical Council, as well as commissioner of investigation of maternal mortality. He is a past president of the British Medical Association (Xew Zealand branch) and has held a position as honorary consulting surgeon . of the Wellington Hospital. He is president of the Xew Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, an organisation in which he has taken a leading part_ since its inception, and chairman of the St. John Ambulance, Wellington. He served in the R.A.M.C. during the Boer War, gaining the Queen's medal, with two clasps. A lieutenantcolonel in the New Zealand Medical Corps during the Great War, ho was awarded the British and Victory medals. He is also an officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He has published several works dealing with medical subjects, the most important being " Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine," and he is .Dominion correspondent of Hie British Medical Journal. MR D. V. BRYANT, C.M.G. Mr D. V. Bryant, C.M.G., founder of the Waikato Land Settlement Society mid donor and honorary manager of the Bryant Convalescent Homo for Children, overlooking Raglan Harbour, has an outstanding record of community and social service. He was born 54 years ago. At the age of 28 he started farming on his own account, operating several farms at one time, and engaging in extensive stock dealing. During the 1921 slump he administered numerous farms, the owners of-which were in difficulties. Fourteen years ago he decided to give his farm properties to a board of trustees for the purpose of conducting a convalescent home for children. It cost fiver 112.000 to erect and equip the home, for which no charge is made. Indigent mothers as well as children are accommodated. In 1933 Air Bryant conceived his land scheme, which was primarily to develop land, often covered with blackberry and gorse, for production, and to settle families on it. MR C. A. BERENDSEN, C.M.G. Air Carl August Berendsen, C.M.G., who is permanent head of the Prime Minister's Department, has been intimately connected with administrative matters for many years.. Born in Sydney in 1890 and graduating LL.M. from Victoria College, he was appointed chief <derk of the Labour Department in 1917, and the following year was made deputy registrar of industrial unions. He was in the Imperial Affairs Office for a short period and was Secretary for External Affairs in 1028. He is "the author of ,; Xotes on Registration and Rules of Industrial Unions." In 1912 Mr Berendsen was a member of the Wellington representative cricket team. MISS JEAN BATTEN, C.B.E. Miss Jean Batten, C.8.E., 1 lie 20-year-o/il New Zealand aviatrix, first became famous when, after two unsuccessful attempts, she completed a solo flight from England to. Australia, landing at Darwin on May 23, 1934. After spending some time in Australia and making a tour of the Dominion, she successfully completed the return flight to England, thus being the only woman to fly solo the double journey. Her most recent exploit was a dramatic flight last November from Loudon to Brazil, across the South Atlantic, a trip on which she broke the existing record. Her performance on this occasion resulted in her being honoured by both the French and Brazilian authorities. She is a daughter of Mr and Mrs F. H. Batten, of Auckland.

AUSTRALIAN RECIPIENTS

PRIME MINISTER INCLUDED

SYDNEY, June 22.

(Received June 23. at 0.30 a.m.)

The birthday honoure include the fol lowing:— Companion of Honour. —Joseph Aloy sius Lyons, Prime Minister of Austra lia.

C.M.G.—Sir William Irvine, Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria. K.C.M.G.—Robert Archdale Parkliill, Minister of Defence.

K.B.E.—Sydney Snow, a prominent Svdnev business man.

"Knights Bachelor.—Dr H. A. Newton, •of Melbourne: Richard Linton, Agentgeneral of Victoria; Emeritus Professor Francis Anderson, of Sydney; Dr Charles Bickerton Blackburn, of Sydney. C.M.G.—Thomas ■). Hartigan. Chief Commissioner of Railways, Sydney. C.B.E.—Hugh Hamilton Newcll, Commissioner of Main Roads, Sydney. 0.8. E.—M. G. Boniwell, Assistant Parliamentary Draughtsman, Canberra. f;,rj,—Engineer-commander R. A. M'Xcill.