NEW YEAR HONORS
FOUR NEW ZEALANDERS SERVICES REWARDED (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Jan. 1. The New Year honors conferred by His Majesty the King include the following:— —Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.— Charles Perrin Skerrett, Chief Justice of New Zealand. —Knight Bachelor;— Robert Donald Douglas Mac Lean, New Zealand. —Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.— John Alexander, Auckland. Charles Westwood Earle, Wellington. —Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.— Lord Burnham. —Knight of the Order of St. Michael.— Miles Wodderburn Lampson, British Minister at Pekin. —Companion of the Order of the Bath.— Rear-Admiral William Napier. i —Viscount.— Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland. j —Baron.— Sir Charles Greenway. —Privy' Councillor.- 1 - Sir P. Ormsby Gore. , —Baronet.— Sir Edward Davison. —Knighthood.— John Reith, ex-chairman of the Broadcasting Co. , —Knight of the Victorian Order.— j Captain Towse, the blind V.C. —Dame of the British Empire.— j Countess of Jersey. —Companion of Honor.— Reverend Hugh Shepherd, ex-vicar of St. Martins-iu-the-Fields, London. SIR CHARLES SKERRETT
The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, was born and educated in Wellington, being admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1880. In 1907 he was appointed a K.C., and both before and after that date had a distinguished career at the bar. He was appointed Chief Justice on the retirement of Sir Robert Stout, last year. SIR ROBERT MacLEAN Sir Robert D. D. Mac Lean is a well-' known Hawke's Bay settler. He was born in Wellington in 1852. being a son of the late Sir Donald Mac Lean. He qualified and practised as a solicitor, but subsequently took up sheepfarming, specialising in stud breeding. He has served for many years on a number of local bodies, and at ( one time was member, of Parliament for Napier. During the war he serv*. ed on patriotic associations in England. JOHN ALEXANDER, C.M.G. Mr. John Alexander, C.M.G., is a well-known Auckland barrister, and for some years served as president of the Auckland Law Society. Ho has acted on several occasions, as chairman of Royal Commissions, the most. noteworthy being the recent Meat Works Commission set up to enquire Into the charges made by Mr. W. D. Lysnar, M.P. CHARLES W. EARLE, C.M.G. Mr. Charles W. Earle, C.M.G., man-aging-director of the Dominion, Wellington, was born in Wellington in 1871 and commenced his journalistic career' at the age of 16, He served on several Wellington jmd Christchurch newspapers before founding the Dominion. He has been .president of the N.Z. Institute of Journalists' Association several times, and president of the N.Z. Newspaper Proprietors' Association since 1921,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 7
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