HONOURS CONFERRED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 5

HONOURS CONFERRED

NEW YEAR DECORATIONS THE OVERSEAS LIST 4 MORE PEERS CREATED (Reed. Jan. 3, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2. The King has conferred the following New Year honours:— BARONS. Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey, secretary of the Imperiail Defence Committee. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, a member of the famous newspaper family. Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Greer, a Lord Justice of Appeal since 1927. Sir Peter Rylaiuds, head of the iron and steel firm which bears his name.

G.C.V.O, Knight Grand Cross of Royal Victorian Order. Sir John Keith, director-general of the 8.8. C. G.C.B. Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. K.C.B. Knight Commander of the Bath. Vice-Admiral Andrew Cunningham, Naval A.D.C. to the King. Mr. E. E. Bridges, secretary of the Cabinet Committee of Imperial Defence. K.C.M.G. Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. Eric Gustav Machtig, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office. Captain C. G. Graves, Deputy-Direc-tor of the 8.8. C. Mr. Basil Newton, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia. G.C.M.G. Knight Grand Cross of St. Machael <md St. George Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan, Deputy Under - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Rt. Hon. Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin. K.B. Knight Bachelor. Lt.-Col. J. G. Hay, a member of the International Rubber Regulations Committee. Mr. Adam Maitland, M.P. Mr. F. J. Pearce, past-president of the British Dental Association. Mr. S. J. Pigott, managing-director of John Brown and Co., Ltd., shipbuilders. Lieut-Col. Heaton Forbes Robinson, Director of Works of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Mr. J. B. F. Watson, Director of the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations. P.C. Privy Councillor. Mr. H. M. Butler, M.P. Captain H. F. C. Crookshank, M.P. O.M. Order of Merit. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield. Sir James Jeans, Professor of Astronomy in the Royal Institution. C.B. Companion of the Bath. . Mr. F. T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin and Mr. W. Strang, members of Lord Runciman's staff on the Czechoslovakian mission.