NEW YEAR HONOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26349, 2 January 1947, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS

THE BRITISH LIST EIGHT BARONS CREATED SIR STANLEY BRUCE BECOMES A VISCOUNT (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. New Year honours are announced as follows: VISCOUNT Baron Stanley Melbourne Bruce. BARONS Mr Charles Dukes, member of the Trades Union Congress General Council since 1934. ' General Sir Hastings Ismay, lately Cabinet’s military secretary. Mr George 1 Morgan Garro-Jones, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of production. Mr Fred Kershaw, for service in connection with unemployment and health insurance. Lord Justice Lawrence. Sir Walter Layton, head of the joint War Production staff in 1942-43. Sir John Maffey, United Kingdom representative in Eire. Sir Ernest Simon. PRIVY COUNCILLORS Mr Clement Davis, chairman of the Liberal Parliamentary Party. Mr William Hall, Financial Secretary to the Treasury.. Mr Arthur Henderson. Under-secretary for India and Burma. KNIGHTS BACHELOR Mr Ralph David Richardson, for services on the stage. ■ Mr Z. F. Willis, general secretary of the national council of the Y.M.C.A. ORDER OF THE BATH—KNIGHTS COMMANDER Military Division General Sir Montague Stopford. Air Vice Marshal Alfred Conrad Collier. Civil Division Sir Orme Sargent, permanent Foreign. Under-secretary. ORDER OF MERIT Field Marshal Smuts. _ Mr John Gilbert Winant, former United States Ambassador (honorary). KNIGHTS COMMANDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Ml* Guildhaume Mryddin-Evans, chairman of the governing body of the International Labour Office. Mr Terence Allen Shone, United Kingdom High Commissioner m India. The Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton-Furse, lately Bishop of St. Albans. KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS OF ST MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Sir Ronald Campbell, Ambassador to i Egypt. Sir. Maurice Petersen. Ambassador to Russia. ROYAL VICTORIA ORDER—KNIGHT COMMANDER Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the Royal Academy. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE— Knight Grand Cross Military Division Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton. Civil Division Sir William Currie chairman of the P. and 0., and lately chairman of the Liner Division of the Ministry of Transport. KNIGHT COMMANDER Military Division Admiral John Gregory Grace (retired). Civil Division Mr Charles Robert Smith, lately Governor of British North Borneo. HONORARY OFFICER Civil Division Ata, Premier of Tonga. Moshe G. Levin, president of the Jewish community in Haifa, Palestine. AUSTRALIANS HONOURED KNIGHTS BACHELOR Professor Kerr Grant, of Adelaide. Rupert Oakley Shoobridge, president of the Tasmanian Legislative Council. 1 Rear-Admiral Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle, of the Royal Australian Navy, and Military and Official Secretary to the GovernorGeneral, becomes a K.C.V.O.