NEW YEAR HONORS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 4

NEW YEAR HONORS

N.Z. RECIPIENTS TWO KNIGHTS BACHELOR JUDGE AND INDUSTRIALIST EIGHT WOMEN HONOURED MINISTERIAL SECRETARIES (Por Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, has announced that the King has been graciously pleased on the occasion of the New Year to confer the following honours in recognition, of services rendered to the Dominion:—' CIVIL DIVISON K.E. Knight Bachelor The Hon. Henry Hubert Osier, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Mr. Charles Manley Luke, J.P.. Wellington.

C.M.G. 'Companion of the Most Distinguised Order of St. Michael and St. George.

Mr. Arthur Telford Donnelly, Christchurch. Mr. Thomas Donald Horn Hall, clerk of the House of'Representatives, Wellington. CjB.E. Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Mr. Thomas Reginald Aickin, private secretary to the Minister of Finance, Wellington. Mr. Arthur William Mulligan, formerly private secretary to Ministers of the Crown. Wellington. 0.8. E. Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. Sidney John Harrison, general secretary of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, Wellington. Dr. Alice Woodward Horsley, Auckland.

Mr. Samuel Saltzman, Dunedin

M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire.

Miss Beatrice Alice Campbell, matron of the Public Hospital in New Plymouth, Miss Isabel Mona Corkill, of the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association, Christchurch. Miss Nora Philomena Fitzgibbon, nursing adviser to the Phmget Society, Dunedin. Mrs. Mary Fanny Gaby, lady corps superintendent of the , St. John Ambulance Brigade, Wellington. Miss Mary Josephine Martin, matron of the Smmyside Mental Hospital, 'Christchurch.

Miss Cecilia McKenny, president of the New Zealand Registered Nurses; Association, Pahiatua. Miss Janet Anne Moore, nurse instructor. Department of Health, Wellington. MILITARY DIVISION C.B.E. Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Group Captain the Hon. Ralph Alexander Cochrane, A.F.C., R.A.F., Air Department, Wellington. 0.8. E. Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Major Stanley Herbert Crump, Deputy-Quartermaster-General and Director of Supplies and Transport, Army Headquarters, Wellington. M.B.E.

Member of the Order of the British Empire.

Staff Sergeant-Major George Ferguson MacCulloch, Army School of Instruction, Trentham. Medal of the Order of the British

Empire (Military Division). Chief Petty Officer Writer Archie Victor Styles, New 'Zealand Naval Forces, Wellington. PUBLIC FIGURES WIDE SCOPE OF HONOURS A judge of the Supreme Court and an industrialist who has taken a keen interest in civic affairs in Wellington comprise New Zealand's latest additions to the list of knights bachelor, a feature of considerable interest being that one of the new knights is the second member of his family to gain this recognition. The list of New Year honours also includes a number of other public figures, among whom ex-servicemen will note with interest Mr. Sidney J. Harrison, general secretary of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, on whom has been conferred the Order of the British Empire. Two others whose names figure in the list are well-known for their work as private secretaries to successive MinV isters of the Crown, these being Messrs. T. R. Aickin and A. W. Mulligan. The more prominent of those honoured by the King in the New Zealand list are the subject of the following biographical notes:— SIR HENRY H. OSTLER One of New Zealand's new knight bachelors, Sir Henry Hubert Ostler has been a member of the Supreme Court bench since 1924, having for the previous 10 years been a member in the Auckland law firm of Jackson, Russell, Tunks and Ostler.

Born in Timaru in 1876, he is the son of Mr. William H. Ostler, of Ben Ohau station, and was educated in London. Returning to New Zealand, he continued his studies at Victoria University, and had a notable career in sport, captaining the University Rugby team, and later representing Wellington, Horowhenua and Manawatu.

From 1892 to 1900, he was farming