FOUR KNIGHTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1935, Page 4

FOUR KNIGHTED.

BIRTHDAY HONOURS MR. RANSOM TO BE K.C.M.G. K.B. FOR MR. F. V. FRAZER DR. DORIS GORDON M.3.E. ONLY TARANAKI HONOUR By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Governor-General has announced that King George has been graciously pleased on the occasion of His Majesty’s birthday to confer the following honours in recognition of services rendered to the Dominion:— CIVIL LIST. Knight Grand Cross of the Most Disgtiished Order of. St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.). ______ Sir Christopher James Parr, K.C.M.G., High Commissioner for New Zealand at London. Knight Commander of the Most Distin-; gvished Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.). The Hon. Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Minister of Lands. Knight Bachelor. Francis Vernon Frazer, formerly Judge of the Court of Arbitration and now chairman of the Executive Commission of Agriculture. Henry Horton, of Auckland. > Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. (K.8.E.). Brigadier-General Herbert Ernest Hart, Administrator of Western Samoa.

Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. • (C.M.G.). 1 , Professor John Rawson ? Elder, profes* sor of history at the University of Otago, Dunedin, Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop, Mayor of Wellington. Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. (C.8.E.). Dr.' Ernest Marsden, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Dr. Michael Herbert Watt, DirectorGeneral of Health.

Officer of the Civil Division of (he Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. (0.8. E. John William Collins, Trade and Tourist Commissioner for New Zealand in Canada. Charles Frederick Goldie, of Auckland. Mrs.’ Lucinda Henrietta Wilson, of Auckland.

Honorary Officer of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the Brir tish Empire (honorary 0.8. E.). Makea Harika Takau, of Cook’lslands. Mata Afa Salanoa Muliufi, of Western Samoa.

Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British ' Empire (M.8.E.). Johannes Carl Andersen, librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. Arthur Kingsley Bell, of Wellington. Walter Bromley, deputy-chairman of the Unemployment Board. The Rey. Jasper Cyril Austin Calder, of Auckland. Mrs. Mary Hobhouse Chatfield, of Wellington. •• ■ Mrs. Anne Isobel Fraer, of Christchurch. Dr. Doris Clifton Gordon, of Stratford. Miss Edith Annie Howes, of Dunedin. William Alfred James, New Zealand Goyernment agent at Vancouver. Mrs. Marian Caughey ' Preston, of Auckland. Companion of the Imperial Service Order (1.5.0.). Alfred Ernest Allison, formerly commissioner of., the Government Insurance Department. Dr. George Craig, formerly Comptroller of Customs. MILITARY LIST. Knight Commander of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (K.8.E.). Major-General Sir William Livingstone Hatchwell Sinclair-Burgess, General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Military Forces. Companion of the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB.). Colonel Frank Symon, A.D.C, to the King, of Wellington. Commander of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.8.E.). Colonel William Henry Cunningham, of Wellington. / ✓ ' , Colonel Herbert Clarence Hurst, of Christchurch. Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. ■ Lieutenant-Colonel William Robert Lang of Waipu, North Auckland. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Grade Mib ligan, of Auckland. Member’of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.). Flight-Lieutenant Maurice William Buckley, of Christchurch. Captain George Dittmer, of Auckland, Captain Peter William Gordon Spiers, of Dunedin. Sir James Parr, who was knighted in 1924, was Minister of Education, Minister of Health, Minister of Justice and Postmaster-General at various times in the Reform administrations of 1920-26. He was High Commissioner in 1926-30, returning to New Zealand to be appointed to the Legislative/ Council. He was subsequently selected for a second term as High Commissioner. Sir Alfred Ransom, the acting-Prime Minister, held a similar office in 1930-31. He was deputy-leader of the United Party and became Minister of Public works in the Ward Government. He held his present portfolios of Land, Valuation and State Forests in the Forbes Government. Sir Francis Frazer was. appointed to the magistracy in 1911 and judge of the Arbitration Court in 1921, He was acting judge of the Supreme Court in 1928. He was chairman of the recent Dairy Commission.

General Sir Herbert Hart, D. 5.0., Croix de Guerre, served in the South African War and the Great War. He was mentioned five times in dispatches. Prior to being .appointed Samoan administrator he practised law at Masterton. Sir Henry Horton is managing director of the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Weekly News. He has other business interests at Auckland and is a director of the Press Association. He is on the executive of the Auckland Patriotic Society and is a member of the Auckland University Council.

General Sir William Sinclair-Burgess, D. 5.0., Legion of Honour, has been G.O.C. since 1931. He served in the Great War as. a colonel in the Australian artillery and as a brigadier-general, being mentioned in dispatches six times. Dr. Doris Gordon was the first woman

in Australia to secure a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, securing the honour at the same time as her husband, Dr. W. P. P.' Gordon, in 1925. She founded the Obstetrical Society in 1927 and promoted and organised the obstetrical /endowment appeal in 1930, by which’ £31,750 was raised for a chair at Dunedin. Prior to commencing her practice at Stratford she was on the staff of the Dunedin hospital and lecturer at the Otago University. She has always been especially interested in maternal and infant welfare. /