THREE BARONS CREATED

Southland Times, Issue 23839, 9 June 1939, Page 7

THREE BARONS CREATED

Birthday Honours In Britain MR MAX BEERBOHM KNIGHTED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received June 8, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. The King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the celebration of his birthday, to confer the following honours:— BARONS SIR ARTHUR RICHARD DE CAPELLBROOKE, chairman of the Northamptonshire County Council. SIR HERBERT CAYZER, member of the House of Commons for Portsmouth South. He is vice-chairman of Clan Line steamers and a director of several other -shipping companies. CAPTAIN HERBERT DIXON, member of the Ulster Parliament for East Belfast since 1922. KNIGHTS BACHELOR (K. 8. MR MAX BEERBOHM, the author. MR PHILIP EDWARD HALDIN, a prominent ship owner. PROFESSOR OWEN RICHARDSON, whose work on the emission of electrons from heated filaments has been a valuable contribution to the progress of radio and television. DR DRUMMOND SHIELS, Undersecretary for India and later for the Colonies in Mr Ramsay Mac*Donald’s second Labour Administration. FRANCIS CARNEGIE, chief superintendent of ordnance factories. THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH Knights Grand Cross (G.C.8.) SIR RONALD LINDSAY, the British Ambassador to Washington. SIR FINDLATER STEWART, Permanent Under-Secretary at the India Office. THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Knight Commander (K.C.M.G.) MR EDWARD WILSHAW, managing director of Cables and Wireless, Limited. THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH /EMPIRE CIVIL DIVISION Commander (C.8.E.) MR A. H. KING, British Consul at Lisbon. MR O. F. N. THAVENOT, judicial adviser to the Siamese Ministry of Justice. MR F. R. GIBB, British Consul at Addis Ababa. Member (M.8.E.) MR HAROLD LEVISON, British ViceConsul at Penang. ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OF HONOUR (C.H.) DR G. P. GOOCH, a historian. MR J. J. MALLON, one of the governors of the British Broadcasting Corporation. PRIVY COUNCILLORS (P.C.) MR HERWALD RAMSBOTHAM whose appointment to succeed Sir Philip Sassoon as First Commissioner of Works was announced last night. MR JAMES STEWART, the Scottish Conservative Whip in the House of Commons. The Duke of Kent has been promoted to the ranks of rear-admiral, major-general and air vice marshal. Seven knighthoods are conferred in the Dominions, 16 in India and Burma and four in the Colonial Empire. Several honours are also conferred for air-raid precautions work and for services to the movement for physical fitness. MR NORMAN BROOKES KNIGHTED BIRTHDAY HONOURS IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, June 8. The following King’s Birthday honours have been conferred in Australia: THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Knight Commander K.C.M.G. MR RICHARD LAYTON BUTLER, a former Premier of South Australia. THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE CIVIL DIVISION Knights K.B.E. MR GEORGE STEPHENSON BEEBY, Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. MR JUSTICE HALSE ROGERS, of the New South Wales Supreme Court Bench. KNIGHTS BACHELOR K.B. MR GERALD MUSSEN, a company director. MR NORMAN EVERARD BROOKES, president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia and a former Wimbledon champion. PROFESSOR ERNEST SCOTT, a his- ■ torian. MR NORMAN LINDFIELD NOCK, Lord Mayor of Sydney. THE HON. WILLIAM CHARLES ANGLISS, member of the Legislative Council, Victoria, since 1912. SIR GERALD MUSSEN BROTHER OF INVERCARGILL JOURNALIST Sir Gerald Mussen, who is a brother of Mr Frank Mussen, of Invercargill, was a pupil at the South School and at the Southland Boys’ High School (1886-7). After leaving school hr joined the Southland Frozen Meat Co. Ltd. He took an active part in various athletic sports in Invercargill and was

a foundation member of the Pirates Football Club. When his father, Mr H. G. Mussen who was Crown lands ranger for Southland, was transferred to Christchurch, he also went north. He was employed for a time with Chrystal & Co., merchants, and in his spare time wrote for The Spectator, a weekly paper, and other journals. As captain of the Linwood Football Club and a member of the first fifteen, he did valuable work for his club and was largely responsible for raising it from junior to senior rank. He later went to Sydney, where he entered journalism and became subeditor of The Sydney Daily Telegraph. After visiting England he returned to Australia and resumed his journalistic work in Melbourne.

A few years later he gave up journalism for a commercial career and from 1915 to 1928 was industrial consultant to the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Limited and Broken Hill Associated Smelters. From 1927 to 1930 he was chairman of the Federal Citrus Association and from 1924 to 1930 chairman of the Victorian Central Citrus Association.

Sir Gerald, who is a director of various proprietary companies, became interested in the wood pulp industry and floated a huge company to develop it. He is now the managing director of the company and lives in Melbourne.