NEW YEAR HONOURS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 450, 2 January 1934, Page 4

NEW YEAR HONOURS

N.Z. Awards TWO KNIGHTHOODS * CONFERRED SOLDIER AND BANKER • Press Association - -Gnay right Wellington, Jan. X. The Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) announced this evening that His Majesty the King had been graciously pleased on the occasion of New Year to confer the following honours:--Knight Bachelor, Major General William Livingstone Hatchwell Sinclair Burgess, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., aide-de-camp to the King, general officer commanding the New Zealand Military Forces. James Trevilly Grose, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand. C.M.G. Professor Robert Edward Alexander, director of the Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, Christchurch. C.BiE. (Civil Division). C. A. Knowles, private secretary to successive High Commissioners for New Zealand in London for the past 30 years,--0.8. E. (Civil Division). Miss Sibylla Emily Maude, of jthe Nurse Maude District Nursing Service, Christchurch. Miss Jane Anna Mowbray, president of the Victoria League of Auckland. MAJ.-GEN. SIR W. L. H. S. BURGESS. Major-General Sir W. L. H. Sinclair Burgess has commanded tha New Zealand military forces since 1931. He was born in England in 1880, the son of the Rev. George Burgess, Papakura. He received his education in England and took up an army career. He served in the Great War in Gallipoli, Egypt, France and Belgium as a colonel of Australian . artillery and as a brigadier-general, being mentioned in dispatches six times He was also decorated with the D.S.O.j the Legion d’Honneur and the American Distinguished Service Medal. After the war he was appointed brigadier of tha New Zealand Staff Corps, becoming Director of Military Training and Intelligence in 1922. He was appointed chief of the general staff of New Zealand in 1924. , SIR JAMES T. GROSE. Sir James T. Grose, Wellington, has held his present position as manager of the National Bank of New Zealand since 1928. He is of Australian birth and of Cornish parentage and was educated at the Brisbane Grammar School. He joined the Bank of New South Wales at Townsville in 1888, rising steadily in the bank’s service from inspector for Queensland, sub-inspector at Sydney and secretary to the bank to become assistant superintendent at Sydney. His experience in banking and finance led to his appointment as financial secretary to . the Defence Department on the Board of Business Administration during th? war. After the war he was appointed staff inspector at Sydney and metropolitan inspector at Sydney in 1921. After' I being inspector for Queensland and New Zealand he left the service of the bank i to assume the position he holds nowv

AUSTRALIAN HONOURS \ ' , T Press Association —Copyright. * 1 Sydney, Jan/1. | The King’s New Year honours list for | Australia includes a Knight Grand Cross I of the Order of St. Michael and SL j George, a Knight Commander and a | Companion of that order, three Knights ■ of the Order of the Bath, and Comma rid- | er of the Odder of the British Empire. ■ j Five women are included in tha minor awards, among whom is Mrs. Daisy Bates, noted for work among aboriginals in Central Australia. The leading honours are;— G.C.M.G. John Michael Higgins, former chair- | man of the British Australian Wool Reali isation Association. - * | K.C.M.G. I Vice-Admiral George Francis Hyde, j first naval member of the Navy Board. 1 K.B. • • | Gilbert J. C. Dyett, president of the j returned Soldiers’ League. | Frederick D. McMaster, pastoralist and I studmaster of Dalkeith, New South 1 Wales. j Langer M. L. Owen, former justice of I the Supreme Court of New South Wales. | C.M.G. | Harry P. Brown, Director-General of j the Post Office. | C.B.E. Group-Captain William H. Anderson, j member of the Commonwealth his \ Board. ,i BRITISH LIST j Press Association —Copyright. London, Dec. 31. The New Year honours list includes the following names:— Peers: Sir Evelyn Cecil Godfrey Elton, Sir Bertram Falle, Sir William Morris, Douglas Newton. Privy Councillors: Aga Khan, Tejbaha Dursapru, Lord Stanley. Baronets. Major Ralph Glyn, Osmond Goldsmid, Sir William McClintock, Percy John Pybus. Knights: Commander Britten of tha Berengaria, Cedric Hardwicke (actor). Knight of the Garter: The Earl Stanhope. Grand Cross of the Victorian Order, The Earl of Harewood. V * POSITION IN CANADA < - Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, Dec. 29. Recommendations have been made that certain Canadians should share in the New Year list of honours and awards bestowed by His Majesty, according to a statement on Friday night by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bennett). He recalled his statement in the Canadian House of Commons last session in which he held that the 1919 resolution against titles did not restrict the exercise of the Royal prerogative.