NEW YEAR HONORS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18593, 2 January 1935, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONORS

LONG AND VARIED LIST

THREE NEW PEERAGES

27 MORE. KNIGHTHOODS

ALL SERVICES INCLUDED

(British Official Wireless.) Rec. 10 a.in. RUGBY, Jan. 1. The list of New Year honors is, headed by the names of three new peers. They are:— Sir Henry Betterton, formerly Minister of Labor, and now ehairtnan of the Unemployment Assistance Board. Sir Thomas Pernor Hesketh, who has taken a prominent part in political and public life of Northamptonshire.

Colonel Sir Wyndham Portal, who was one of four commissioners who recently investigated conditions in depressed areas. The Marquess of Linlithgow Is appointed a Privy Councillor.

Five new baronetcies arc to be conferred, namely, Colonel Edward Ruggles-Brise, M.P.; Mr. Richard Duaning Holt, the wcll-Xnowh Shipowner; Sir Harold Mackintosh, a prominent Yorkshire businessman and philanthropist, and president of the World’s Sunday School Association; Colonel Frank Simpson, for political and public services in Durham and Northumberland; and Sir Holburt Waring, president of the Royal College of Surgeons*. In the general honors list, 27 knighthoods arc conferred for services in widely different fields. Among the recipients aro three members of Parliament and others prominent in public affairs. These include: Messrs Charles Bressey, chief engineer of the Roads* Department of the Ministry of Transport: Walter Langdon Brown, professor of physics at Cambridge University; Edwin Deller, principal of London University; Cyril Fox, director of the National Museum: Wilfred King, chairman of the Exchange Telegraph Company; John Orr, director of the Rowett Institute for Research in animal nutrition; Professor Edward Poulton, honorary life president of the Royal Entomological Society of London; John Sutherland, a member of the Forestry Commission; and Dr. Francis Tovey, professor of music at Edinburgh University. The Earl of Yarborough is appointed a Knight of the Garter. The eminent scholar, Professor John Maekail, is appointed, to the Order of Merit.

The King has conferred the Royal Victorian Chain upon the Earl of Derby and the Earl of Athlone.

In the Order of the Bath, Sir Josiah Stamp becomes Knight Grand Cross. Mr. Henry Badeley, clerk of Parliaments', and Colonel Banks, DirectorGeneral of the Post Office, become Knight Commanders.

In the order of SI. Michael and St. George, Sir Edward Denham, Governor of Jamaica, is appointed Knight Grand Cross. Lieutenant-General Sir William Furso and Mr. Archibald Clark Kerr, British Minister at Stockholm, are among the new Knight Commanders in that order.

In the Royal Victorian Order, Admiral Sir Herbert Fetherston-Haugh, Viscount Hampden, and Baron Leeonfield, become Knights Grand Cross. New Knights Commanders include the Very Rev. Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster, dated November 29, which was the day of the Duke of Kent's wedding, Mr. William Reid Dick, the Royal Academician, and Mr. Edmund Spriggs, M.P. Royal Air Force promotions include Air Marshal J3ir Robert Brooke-Pop-liam, to be air chief marshal, and Air Vice-Marshal Longmore, to be air marshal.

Mr. Allen Deeper, counsellor to the Foreign Office, who is at present seriously ill after several operations, is made a C.M.G.

A new Knight Commander of the Bath is Vice-Admiral Evans. The Air Force Cross is awarded to the Marquess of Clydesdale, who led the Everest air expedition.

THE AUSTRALIAN LIST

EIGHT NEW KNIGHTS

A POSTHUMOUS AWARD

(EJoc, Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 1.

For the first time within memory a posthumous civil honor has been conferred on an Australian. Mrs Deakin, widow of a former Prime Minister, was created a Commander of the Older of the British Empire. She died on Sunday.

The Commonwealth honors list is as follows:

K.C.M.G.—-Professor Albert Chebury and Mr David Rivett, deputy-chairman and executive officer of the Commonwealth 'Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

G.M.'G.—Mr Malcolm Lindsay Shepherd, Secretary for Defence, and Captain Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle, military secretary to the GovernorGeneral.

K.B.—Mr Ernest Cooper Riddle, governor of the Commonwealth Bank, Mr Colin Fraser, of Melbourne, and Dr. Raphael West ‘Niloent, of Brisbane.

C.B.E. —The late Mrs Pattie Deakin, of Melbourne, and Mr 'George Lewis Aitken, of Melbourne. The New Soutli Wales list is as follows:

K.B.—Mr Harry Campbell Budge, official secretary to the Governor, and Mr Colin Campbell Stephen, chairman of the Australian Jockey 'Club. 'C.B.E.—Mr William .lames Kessell, Public Trustee. The Victorian list is as follows:

K.B.E.—Sir Macpherson Robertson, donor of £IOO,OOO for various permanent memorials of the Victorian Centenary. K.-B.—Brigadier-General Carl Herman Jess, organiser of the centenary celebrations, now adjutant-general oi' the Commonwealth military forces, and Major-General Thomas Albert Blarney, chief commissioner of the Victorian Police.

C.M.G.—Dr. William Ernest • Jones, inspector-general of hospitals for the insane.

C.B.E.—Mr Wilfred Russell Grimwade, benefactor of educational institutions, who purchased Captain Cook's cottage as a centenary gift to Vic-

toria, Dr. Albert Edmund Kane, chairman of the publicity committee of the Centenary Celebrations Council, Cr. Thomas Sydney Nettlofold, chairman of the finance committee of the Centenary Council, and Mr Charles Arthur Norris, member of the State Electricity Commission.