TWO NEW KNIGHTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18593, 2 January 1935, Page 4

TWO NEW KNIGHTS

N.Z. HONORS LIST SIR CLUTHA MACKENZIE SIR PERCY SARGOOD (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The Governor-General announces that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the new year, to confer the following honors in recognition of services rendered in tliis Dominion: K.B. Mr. Clutha Nantes MacKenzie, director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland. Mr. Percy Rolfe Sargood, of Dunedin. C.M.G. Mr. George Arthur Lewin, town clerk of Dunedin. Mr. Herbert Harry Sterling, chairman of the New Zealand Railways Board. 0.8. E.

Paymaster-Commander Richard Francis Durman, R.N., naval secretary to the New Zealand Naval Board.

Sir Clutha MacKenzie has done much for the blind. He is blind himself, having lost his sight as a result of a war. wound on Gallipoli in August, 1915, and despite this-handicap he has carried on his life’s work, much of which has been towards helping the Institute for the Blind, to which he was appointed as a director. He became interested in politics after the close of the war, and in 1919 contested the Auckland East seat, being defeated by Sir Arthur Myers, on whose retirement Mr. MacKenzic was elected, to lose it to Mr. J. A. Lee in 1922. One of Sir Clutha’s greatest efforts for the blind was in conducting a "ampaign to raise £IOO,OOO for education purposes. He is 40 years of age, and is the son of the late Sir Thomas MacKenzie.

Sir Percy Sargood, who is 70 years of age, has had a long business experience. Ho was born in Melbourne, where he was engaged in business before coming to New Zealand, where he became a junior partner in the firm of Messrs. Sargood, Son and Ewen, and in 1907 became governing-director of the firm. He is a well-known figure in many organisations. Mr. George Arthur Lewin, C.M.G., who was born in Lyttelton 67 years ago, started life on the" literary staff of the Lyttelton Times, and was appointed town clerk at Lyttelton in 1900. He has been town clerk at Dunedin since 1911. He is a member of the Local Government Loans Board.

Mr. H. 11. Sterling, C.M.G., was born in Christchurch 48 years ago. He joined the 'Railway Department at the age of 15 as a cadet at Christchurch, and was appointed to various stations in Canterbury and Otago. He graduated LL.B. at tlie Otago University in 1919, and was transferred to the head office, Wellington, receiving the appointment of law officer, and then to assistant general manager in 1924, member of the board of management in 1925, and, after an absence of two years with the New Zealand Dairy Board, rejoined the Railways Department as general manager in 1928.