NEW YEAR HONOURS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20927, 5 January 1938, Page 11

NEW YEAR HONOURS

RECIPIENTS IN NEW ZEALAND BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES The following are brief particulars of the careers of the New Zealanders who were included in the list of honours Issued at the New Year:— DR. T. G. GRAY Dr. T. G. Gray, C.M.G., M. 8.. Ch.B., M.P.C., the Director-General of Mental Hospitals, was born in Aberdeen in 1884, and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen, gaining the degree of M. 8., Ch.B„ in 1906. For a time he was house surgeon and physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Scotland. Coming to New Zealand, Dr. Gray worked for a time as assistant physician at the Klngseat Mental Hospital, and also served as superintendent of the Auckland and Nelson Mental Hospitals. He was appointed deputy inspector-general of mental hospitals in 1925, and director-general of the service in 1927. He is a member of the Prisons Board and the present chairman of the Eugenics Board. He served in the war with the New Zealand Medical Corps, and since the war has been active in the affairs of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, being for a time president of the Nelson branch.

MR G. H. MACKLEY Mr G. H. Mackley, C.8.E., was born at Port Chalmers in 1883, and educated at the Invercargill Grammar School. He joined the New Zealand Railways as a cadet in the traffic branch at Otautau, Southland, in 1900, and worked various stations in the Southland and Otago districts until 1907, when he was made a clerk in the goods department at Christchurch. After being transferred on promotion to Petone station, and later to the Invercargill goods department, he was appointed Assistant Relieving Officer, and later stationmaster at Heriot. Then h? had five years as stationmaster at Kalkohe and Onerahi and was Assistant Relieving Officer in the Wellington district, later being promoted to the position of Divisional Clerk in the District Traffic Manager’s office at Wellington, where he qualified as a train-running officer (1920-24), being later transferred to Ohakune. For some of this time he represented the Department before the Railway Appeal Board. He was chief clerk at Ohakune from 1925 to 1928, and was selected in September, 1928, to be Chief Clerk in the Head Office, Wellington. In 1931, he became Assistant General Manager, and when Mr P. G. Roussell, the then General Manager, died, Mr Mackley acted as General Manager for a few months until he was appointed to his present position, in May, 1933. SIR THEODORE RIGG Sir Theodore Rigg, M.A., M.Sc., F.1.C., who is director of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, and chief of its agricultural department, was born in Yorkshire in 1888. He was educated at Newtown School, Wellington College, and Victoria University College, where he graduated Bachelor of Science in 1910 and Master of Science in the following year with first-class honours in chemistry. He engaged in research work in the laboratories of the Department of Agriculture while at the university, and gained an 1851 exhibition scholarship. He also was awarded a Jacob Joseph Research Scholarship, and in 1914 was engaged in research at Cambridge University. He gained the degree of Master of Arts and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry. During the war he held various positions in France, Montenegro and Russia, including that of an agricultural organiser in Russia. He has been a member of the New Zealand Rersearch Council since 1926, and in 1927 he was a delegate to the International Soil Congress and the Imperial Conference.

As director of the Cawthron Institute, he has been responsible for extremely valuable work by the research staff in many problems of pasture management, and especial!/ in the subject of mineral deficiency. The application of cobalt in overcoming certain phases of animal diseases has been one of his most important contributions to this subject. He demonstrated that minute applications of cobalt in animal diet brought about a very rapid response in animals suffering from Morton Mains disease, which at one time had a very serious effect on the sheep industry in Southland. Sir Theodore Rigg has been responsible for many publications on agricultural and scientific subjects. Some of the most important have dealt with fruit fertilisation questions, pasture management, and the nutritional values of pastures and clovers. MR E. N. G. POULTON Mr Elgin N. G. Poulton, C.8.E., was born at Wellington in 1881, and educated at the Terrace School and Cornford’s private college. He vas on the literary staff of the “Evening Post,” Wellington, the “New Zealand Herald,” and the “New Zealand Times.” He held positions as private secretary to Sir James Carroll and afterwards to Colonel Pitt, Sir John Findlay, Sir Joseph Ward, the Hon. G. Laurenson, the Hon. A. L. (now Sir Alexander) Herdman, the Hon. T. M. (now Sir Thomas) Wilford, the Rt. J. G. Coates, the Hon. E. P. Lee, the Hon. R. F. Bollard, the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, the Rt. Hon. Sir Maui Pomare. He has written many essays, short stories, and sketches in periodicals in New Zealand and overseas.

DR. EDWARD POHAU ELLISON Dr. Edward Pohau Ellison, 0.8. E. was born at Waikanae, in 1884, and educated at Pihama, Waikanae, and Otakou schools, and Te Auto College. He graduated M. 8., Ch.B. at the Otago Medical School. In 1919 he became resident medical officer on Niue Island, and Deputy Resident Commissioner, taking the position of Resident Commissioner in 1922. In 1923 he became Resident Magistrate and Medical Officer at the Chatham Islands, and in 1925 he took a post-graduate course in surgery. He visited Samoa to study tropical diseases, and studied leprosy at Makogal Leper Station, Fiji. In 1926 he became Chief Medical Officer on the Cook Islands and Deputy-Resident

Commissioner. In 1927 he was appointed Director of the Division of Maori Hygiene. He is now Chief Medical Officer and Assistant Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands. MISS M. I. LAMBIE Miss Mary Isabel Lambie, 0.8. E., was born at Christchurch in 1800, and took her education at Mrs Bowen’s School, and the Christchurch Girls’ High School. She trained as a nurse at the Christchurch Public Hospital, and was a school nurse to the Department of Education, until she was transferred to the Health Department, in 1920. In 1925 she took Plunket training at Karatane Hospital, Dunof Health to Toronto University In 1926, for a course in Public Health Nursing. She trained as a midwife at St. Helen’s Hospital, Wellington, and has been nurse instructor and supervisor of Public Health nursing. Last year Miss Lambie made a trip to England studying her profession. MR D. J. EVANS Mr D. J. Evans, 0.8. E., was born at Hokitika 70 years ago, and has been County Clerk of Westland for more than 40 years. Regarded as the most influential local advocate for public developmental works, he has written several pamphlets supporting the extension of reading and railway facilities In South Westland. For more than a quarter of a century he was editorial waiter for Hokitika’s evening newspaper, and from the time he became County Clerk, he has been the leading organiser of public functions in the town. He was once closely identified with the RS. Hon. R. J. Seddon's party. He has been secretary of the Westland Racing Club for more than 30 years. In his younger days he was regarded as the most efficient Rugby referee on the West Coast. His parents were among the best known of Hokitika’s pioneers. MR J. S, NEVILLE

Mr J. S. Neville 0.8. E., has been Town Clerk of Christchurch since April, 1924. He was educated at the Lyttelton District High School. afterwards joining the Railway Department, in which he served twelve years. In April, 1901, he entered the service of the Christchurch City Council as rate collector. A little more than two years later he was appointed assistant-Town Clerk. At the same time Mr H. R. Smith was appointed Town Clerk, and after he had served for more than 22 years he was granted six months’ leave before he retired on superannuation. During these six months Mr Neville was acting-Town Clerk, and was then unanimously appointed to his present office. In addition to being Town Clerk, Mr Neville has been honorary treasurer of the City Entertainment Fund, the Canterbury Patriotic Fund, and the Mayor’s Coal and Blanket Fund. MR G. McCLOGHRIE Mr G. McCloghrie, a member of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, was appointed to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy in 1934 to take charge of the engineering, constructional, and refitting activities at the Devonport Naval Base for a term of four years. He has previously been engaged in the designing of submarines and of sloops similar to H.M.S. Leith and H.M.S. Wellington. He Was in H.M.S. New Zealand during the Great War, and served at the Battle of Jutland. MRS ETHEL A. KIDD

Mrs Ethel A. Kidd, M.8.E., has a long record of public service, especially in health and nursing. Before her marriage to the late Mi’ Alfred Kidd, M.H.R., a former Mayor of Auckland, she was matron of the Government Sanatorium at Cambridge. For nine years before 1935 she was a member of the Auckland Hospital Board, and she was a founder and first president of the Auckland Hospital Auxiliary. She has also been for a long period president of the Auckland Trained Nurses’ Association, and as vice-president of the National Council of Women, she represented New Zealand in 1924 at the International Conference of Women’s Organisations at Copenhagen and the Women’s International Peace Conference at Wembley. She was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1932. MISS G. HODDINOTT Miss Gwendoline Hoddinott, 0.8. E., has spent the last 21 years in the service of the Plunket Society, of which she is Dominion secretary and treasurer. She was born in Napier, but spent most of her early years in Invercargill. She was educated at the Southland Girls’ High School, where she entered as the holder of the first National Scholarship to be granted in the Southland province. She was dux of the school In 1907. After leaving school she was employed for a time by the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company, before her appointment to the position she now holds. Previous recognition of her work was the presentation to her in 1935 of a Jubilee medal.

MR GEORGE MILLAR Mr George Millar, M.8.E., referred to commonly as “the father of Runanga,” was born in Dunedin in 1863. From his earliest association with Runanga he has played a unique and outstanding part in the town’s industrial, social, and economic life. In 1902 he was appointed engineer of State Mines, a position he held until his retirement four years ago. He was the first chairman of the Runanga School Committee, and the first president of the Runanga Co-operative Society. He has been a Justice of the Peace for many years, and has interested himself actively in every movement for the advancement of Runanga and the district. The old State Miners’ Hall, erected in 1908, and burned down a little more than a year ago, was built under the supervision of Mr Millar, who also designed and supervised the erection of the new miners’ hall. Built at the cost of nearly £6OOO, the new hall will stand, in the words of Mr i„. McTaggart, Runanga’s Mayor, as a memorial to Mr Millar’s work for Runanga and its people. MR W. P. WILLIAMS Mr W. P. Williams, M.B.E, was born in Cornwall 73 years ago, and came to New Zealand in 1873. He served 40 years on the Nev.' Zealand Railways in Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch, and Invercargill, and is now retired. He did good work on the Hutt Valley Relief Committee during the depression. MRS ANNIE McVICAR Mrs Annie Me Vicar, M.8.E., was born in Argyllshire in 1868, and educated at Kilmartin Public School. She has been on the Wellington Hospital Board since 1914, was on the Wellington City Coun-

cil, and was a foundation member of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children. She was awarded the medal of the Alliance Francaise in 1916, and has been Magisstrate’s associate in the Children’s Court. She was a delegate to the International alliance of Suffrage in Berlin in 1929. She is an official visitor at Porirua Mental Hospital. COMMANDER C. B. TINLEY Commander C. B. Tinley, 0.8. E., has been officer In charge of the Devonport Naval Base since April, 1936. He entered the Navy as special cadet in 1917, and was appointed as a midshipman to H.M.S. Lion, the flagship of the battle-cruiser squadron. From 1919 to 1921 he served in river gunboats on the China Station, and later in the flagship of Admiral Sir Frederick Freeyer, commanding the station. Immediately before his present appointment he was on the staff of the Southampton Naval Barracks. THE AUSTRALIAN LIST United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, January 2. The following are included in the Australian New Year Honours:—

KNIGHT BACHELORS Mr Archibald Howie, Lord Mayor of Sydney. Dr. Charles Norman Paul. Mr George Dalziel Kelly, of Victoria. Mr C. F. G. McCann, South Australian Affent-Ganeral in London.