BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

RECOGNITION OF SERVICES MR A. H. McINDOE KNIGHTED Rec. 7 p.m. LONDON, June 11. The King’s Birthday Honours list is as follows: BARONS Mr Reginald O'Douglas Crook. Mr Frederick Montague, M.P.. for political services. Sir Arthur Richards, Governor of Nigeria. Sir Roy Robinson, chairman of the Forestry Commission. PRIVY COUNCILLORS Mr Justice Birkett. Lord Catto. Mr Ness Edwards. Parliamentary Secretary for Labour. Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. Mr George Mathers, M.P. COMPANIONS OF HONOUR Mr James Bone, lately London editor of the Manchester Guardian. Mr John William Robertson Scott, founder and lately editor of the Countryman. Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) Sir James Mitchell (West Australian Legislative Council). General Sir Brian Robertson. Knights Grand Cross of the Bath (G.C.8.) General Sir Richard O’Connor. Sir Archibald Rowlands. Knights Commander of the Bath Brigadier-general S. F. Crocker, Major-general Sir A. B. Ritchie, Sir Henry Self. Sir Ulick Alexander. Knights Bachelor include the plastic surgeon, Mr A. H. Mclndoe; the actor, Mr Laurence Olivier; the conductor, Mr Malcolm Sargent; Mr W. R. Flint; R.A.; and the civil engineer, Mr Ralph Freeman. A special list for the Royal tour of South Africa includes the K.C.V.O. for the Vanguard’s captain, RearAdmiral W. G. Agnew, and the M.V.O. fourth class for the New Zealander, Acting Wing Commander E. W. Tacon, R.A.F., who was commander of the King’s flight. Mr R. O’D. Crook was organising secretary for the Poor Law Workers’ Union from 1920 to 1925, and since 1925 has been secretary of the Labour Staff Association and secretary of the Labour Parliamentary Association. Sir Roy Robinson, is one of the rare cases of a civil servant being raised to the peerage. Bdrn in Australia, he came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and won two and ahalf Blues for cricket, athletics and lacrosse. He served with the Ministries of Munitions and Agriculture from 1914 to 1918 and in 1919, with the passing of the Forestry Act, he was appointed one of the first commissioners, being chairman in 1932.

Sir Archibald Mclndoe has had a distinguished surgical career, and has numerous publications to his credit on surgical and pathological subjects. He was born in Dunedin in 1900 and educated at the Otago Boys’ High School and the Otago Medical School. He received his surgical training at the Mayo Clinic and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He is a son of the late Mr John Mclndoe and Mrs Mclndoe.