HONOURED BY KING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26658, 2 January 1948, Page 4

HONOURED BY KING

Knighthood for Professor J. B. Dawson NEW YEAR AWARDS P.A. WELLINGTON, Jan. 1. The Governor-General, Sir Bernard Freyberg, announced to-day that his Majesty, on the occasion of the New Year, has conferred the following honours: —

PRIVY COUNCILLOR Sir ‘ Humphrey Francis O’Leary, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand. CIVIL DIVISION K.B.E. (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) Professor Joseph Bernard Dawson, professor of midwifery and gynaecology at the University of Otago. KNIGHT BACHELOR Mr Justice Smith, judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. C.M.G. (Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) Dr Guy Hardy Scholefield, 0.8. E., parliamentary librarian and Dominion archivist, of Wellington. The Right Rev. Frederick Augustus Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, of Kohupatiki. C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) Robert Caughley, Wellington, John Henderson, Wellington. Dr Walter Allison Gilmour, Auckland. 0.8. E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire John Barr, Auckland. John Alexander Crawford, Cairo. Kanapu Haerehuka, Wanganui. Miss Aileen Annie Joyce, Auckland. Thomas Rowley Lees, Palmerston North. Miss Mary Letitia Lindsay, Timaru. James Murphy, Christchurch. Henry Valder, Hamilton. Dr Wilifred Stanley Wallis, Rotorua. John Wilson, Dunedin.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL Electrical Artificer Alfred Ernest Crooks, Auckland. Ernest Robert Jackson, canteen tenant, H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona, Auckland. Temporary Warrant Qfficer (First Class) Donald Hughes Cross, New Zealand Regiment, Christchurch. Temporary Warrant Officer (First Class) David Charles McGill, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Wellington. Temporary . Staff-sergeant Victor James Keane, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Auckland, Flight Sergeant William Henry James, Blenheim. Flight Sergeant Tom Lewis Dimmock, Christchurch. Flight Sergeant Basil Frederick White, Christchurch. Flight Sergeant James Robert John Begg, Christchurch. COMMENDATION FOR VALUABLE SERVICE IN THE AIR

Flight Lieutenant James Patrick O’Donnell, Christchurch. Flying Officer Joseph Cassidy Naera, Whenuapai. „ • Flying Officer John Duncan Garrett, OhctkGci 'Warrant Officer Frederick Hazel, Flight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Woods, Whenuapai.