DISTINGUISHED SERVICES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 17977, 3 January 1933, Page 7

DISTINGUISHED SERVICES

NEW YEAR HONORS PUBLIC WORK RECOGNISED SIX NEW BARON'S (British Official Wireless.) Boceiveil 111 it.in. RIGBY, Jim. The Public Services in many direc tions are recognised in the New Year’s honors list, which includes the names of six new barons. These are: Sir Joseph Duveen, the well-known art, connoisseur, collector and trustee of the Wallace Art Collection and ol Ihe i m|ierial College 01 A ri. Sir Thomas Holder, senior physician to jst.. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and physician to the Prime .Minister. Field Marshal Sir George .Milne, Chief of the Imperial General Stub since .1000. Sir Charles Hall Caine, for political and public services, particularly in connection with hospital and educational work. Sir James Konnell llodd, a member of Parliament and formerly Ambassador at Rome. Sir .Walter Eunciman, father of the President of the Board of Trade and a well-known shipowner. Other honors include: —v . 1 Privy Councillors To be Privy Councillors. —Mr. John Greig Latham, Attorney-General for the Commonwealth of Australia; taptain Henry Margesson, API*., Chief Government whip since November, 1931. Baronets To be Baronets. —Air. Frederick Charles Allen, President of the ChamPer of .Shipping ami chairman of the Shipping Federation; Captain Sir George Bowyer, ALP., former Junior Lord of the Treasury; Sir Ernest Harvey, Deputy Governor ol the Bank of England; Mr. Inn MacPherson. member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty since 1911; Sir Owen Seaman, editor of Punch from 11)00 until his recent retirement. Knighthoods Among those upon whom knighthoods are to be conferred are Air. Walter Alcoclc, organist of Salisbury Cathedral since 191(5, for services to music; Air. Percy Alden, chairman of the British Institute of Social Service and chairman of the Save the Child ren Fund; Air. Derwent Hall Caine, formerly Labor member of Parliament, and the second son of Sir Hall Caine, the novelist; Air. Stenson Cooke, secretary of the Automobile Associations since 1905; Air. Harley Dalrymple Hay, consulting engineer, for inventions and services in connection with the construction of the tube railways; Professor Frederick Hobday, principal of the Royal Veterinary College; Air. Arthur Huddleston, lately economic advisor to the Sudan Government; Air. Philip Alartine.au, late president of the Law Society; Mr. Robert Rait, principal and vicechancellor of the Glasgow University; Air. Edward Jackson, Attorney-Gen-eral for Ceylon; Air. Harry Luke, Lieutenant-Governor of Alalta; Hu Honor Air. Justice James Rae, Chid Justice of the Leeward islands; Air. William Shenton, unofficial member ol the Executive and Legislative Coun cils of Hongkong; Air. Henry Walling ton, member of the Executive Council and House of Assembly, Bermuda. Navy, Army, and Air Force

Distinguished services in the Navy, Army, and Air For.ee. are recognised in promotion in appointments to the military division of the Order of the Bath, which are announced. Outstanding promotions include General Sir Charles Harington, to be Knight Grand Cross of that order; ViceAdmiral linger Backhouse, Vice-Ad-miral Henry Douglas, General Richard Ford' and Air Vice-Marshal Ludlow Hewitt, to be Knights Commanders in the Military Division. In the Civil Division new Knights Commanders include Sir Frederick Leithross, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government.. Order of the Star of India

Colonel Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Kamniu and Kashmir, is to be Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India. Order of St. Michael and St. George

Sir George Perley, Minister without portfolio in Canada, and Sii Horace Wilson, Chief Industrial Au visor to His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, are promoted to ho Knights Grand Cross of the Older of St. Michael and St. George. Admiral Sir Dudley do Chair, formerly Governor of New South Wales, Mr. Herbert Palmer, Governor of Gambia, Colonel Sir Kiushau Cornwallis, Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior in Iraq, Mr. Eric Teclian, Chinese Secretary at the British Legation in Peking, Mr. Frank Watson, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government, and Mr. Charles Wingfield, British Minister at Oslo, are to bo Knights Commanders. Lew Companions of the Order include Mr. John Bradficld, Government engineer for the Sydney Harbor Bridge, New South Wales; Mr. Lawrence Ennis, constructing engineer for Messrs. Dorman, Long and Company, contractors for the Sydney Harbor Bridge; Mr. Maurice Peterson, counsellor for the Foreign Office; Mr. Geolfroy Thompson, first secretary at the British Embassy at Santiago; Mr. Herbert Grant Watson, British Minister at Guatemala; Mr. Ralph Wigram, first secretary at the British Embassy iu Paris; the Marquis Cawden, Admiral Sir Edward Browning, and Sii Lionel Earle are promoted to Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.

British Empire Orders Sir Gilbert Vylo, past president of the Association of the British Chamber of Commerce anil one of the industrial advisers to the United Kingdom delegation at Ottawa, is up pointed Knight Commander of the British Empire Order. The Rev. Philip Clayton, founder of Talbot House, and tho'Rev. John Scott Lidgett, president of the Methodist Church, Vice-Chancellor of the London University and Warden or Bermondsey Settlement since 1891, are appointed members of the Order of Companions of Honor.

NEW ZEALANDERS HONORED

TWO KNIGHTS BACHELOR (P»r Press Association.) WELLINGTON last night. An announcement has been issued by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloo, to tho effect that the King has been graciously pleased oa the occasion of the

New Year.to confer the following honors upon the gentlemen named below: — K.B. Alexander Grey, K.C., of Wellington. William Perry, J.P., of Masterton. ‘ C.M.G. Itobert Sutherland Forsyth, representative in the United Kingdom of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board and representative for New Zealand on the Empire Marketing Board. James Marchbanks, formerly general manager and chief engineer to the Wellington Harbor Board. C.B.E. George Percivai Newton, formerly Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affair's, Wellington. AUSTRALIAN LIST SYDNEY, Jan. 2. In connection with the Birthday Honors the Federal list includes: K.C.M.G.—Mr. H. S, Gullett, Minister for Trade. C.M.G. —Professor D. P. Copland, Professor .of Commerce at Melbourne University; Mr. S. G. McFarlane, AssistantSecretary to the Commonwealth Treasury. tv.B. —Senator Kingsmill, ex-President of the Senate; Dr. J. L. MclCelvey, a leading Sydney surgeon; Mr. H. W. Gepp, Chairman of the Commonwealth Consultative Committee on Development. C.B.E.—Mr. E. Abbot, Deputy Controller of the Department of Trade; Mrs. Alice Baker, philanthropist associated with the establishment of the Medical Research Institute at Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. •

In the New; South Wales list appear the following awards:—• K.B. —Mr. Walder, late Lord Mayor of Sydney. Companions of St. Michael and St. George.—Mr. Bradfield and Mr. Ennis. King’s Police Medal.—Superintendent W. .). McKay; ex-Superintendent A. Leary; also Messrs. C. G. Digby and J. Sorlie, late members of the Fire Commissioner’s staff. Victorian awards are: O.M.G. —Senator 11. S. W. Lawton. C.B.E. —Mrs. Norman Brook. S.O.B.E.—Miss Edith Onians, a newsboys’ welfare worker. A West Australia honor is:—

C.B.E—Professor H. E. Whitfield, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia.

MRS. MOLLISON OMITTED LONDON, Jan. 2. There was general surprise and disappointment at the omission of Mrs. Mollison from the Honors list. It is understood that the list of Dames is limited to three and there is no present vacancy.

SIR ALEXANDER GRAY Sir Alexander Gray, K.C., represents the best traditions of the Bar in New Zealand, and has a host of friends and admirers throughout the Dominion. He is of a retiring disposition, but his latent combative'ness has been instanced in many a hardfought ease, as much as his? gifts of penetration and his extensive legal knowledge. The new knight is a product of New Zealand schools and legal practice, lie was educated at the Wellington College, and later was articled to the firm of Izard and Bell, a prominent partnership still strongly represented in Wellington, lie was admitted to the Bar in 1881, and practised in Greytown for five years thereafter. In 18SG he removed to Wellington, where lie became a member of the legal firm of Gray and Jackson. In 1912 he was honored with the appointment of K.C., and since that year he has been one of the outstanding figures in New Zealand legal circles. In 192(1 he sat on the Auckland Hospital Inquiry as a commissioner, and in the same year he was president of the New Zealand Law Society, in which he had been prominent since 1918, when he was appointed vicepresident. In 1928 he presided over the Legal Conference, and on a number of other occasions has contributed to legal and public affairs. Sir Alexander Gray last appeared professionally in Gisborne in connection with the Wairoa freezing works compensation case, as leading counsel for the defence.