NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1926, Page 11

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

TWO PRIVY COUNCILLORS. PREMIER AND SIR FRANCIS BELL. HONOUR FOR SIR JAMES ALLEN. TWO KNIGHTHOODS CONFERRED. By Telegraph.—Press Asso-elatlon. Auckland, Last Night. His Ebdcellency the Governor-General has received advice that on the occasion of the New Year His Majesty the King, has been graciously pleased to confer the following honours on the gentlemen whose names appear below : PRIVY COU N CILLOIL Hon. Joseph Gordon Coates, M.C., M.P., Prime Minister of New Zealand. Hon. Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, G.C.M.G., K.C., Attorney-General, Minister of External Affairs and Leader of the Legislative Council. G.C.M.G, Hon. Sir James Allen, K.C.8., High Commissioner for New Zealand in London. KNIGHT BACHELOR. Mr. Henry Brett, of Auckland, the veteran journalist and owner of the Auckland Star. Mr. Henry Francis Wigram, ol Christchurch. C.M.G. Mr. Frederick William Furkert, engin-eer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department, A SHORT HONOUR'S ’LIST. Received Jail. F 9.10 p.m. London, Jan. 1. The Morning Post emphasises that the brevity of the Honours list sustains the new tradition established since the Coalition Government fell, and adds: "Such recognition of Dominion statemanship as Privy Councillorships to the Hon. J. G. Coates and Sir Francis Bell will be as popular here as overseas, while satisfaction will be felt again at the knighthoods of representative pulblic men of the Dominions.”