KNIGHTHOOD FOR N.Z. COMMISSIONER

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17749, 20 January 1926, Page 1

KNIGHTHOOD FOR N.Z. COMMISSIONER

SIR A. F. ROBERTS GETS HONOURS FOR WEMBLEY Per Press Association, AUCKLAND, January 20. The Governor-General has been informed that the King has conferred the following honours for services in connection with the Wembley Exhibition:— K.B.E. Sir Alexander Fowler Roberts, GB.E., Commissioner for New Zealand. C.B.E. Mr William Edwin C. Reid, Assistant Commissioner. Sir Alexander Fowler Roberts, K.8.E.,-is the son of Sir John Roberts. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Cambridge University, where he won his Rugby “blue.” Joining Murray, Roberts and Co. in Dunedin in 1903, he was at Napier in 1911 and Wellington in 1912. A lieutenant-colonel in the N.Z.F.A., he was in charge of the embarkation of the N.Z.E.F. from 1914 till 1918. He was the first president of the Rotary Club. Other offices which he has held have been chairman of the Navy League, a director of the Wellington Meat Export Company, and a member of the Hutt Borough Council. A keen golfer, he won a championship at Napier, and played first grade cricket at Dunedin. In 1924 he was appointed New Zealand Commissioner to Wembley Exhibition. Mr Reid is a public accountant of Dunedin. He was born at Dunedin in 1870. He was educated at the Normal School, Dunedin. Commencing business life as a clerk with Guthrie and Larnach’s Co;, Dunedin, in 1884, he remained with the firm and its successors until 1897. During the ensuing three years he was manager for a firm of woollen warehousemen, and from 1900 has been a public accountant, auditor and company secretar}-. He is a mem-

ber of the Dunedin Manufacturers' Association. In November/ 1923, he was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the New Zealand Pavilion of the Wembley Exhibition. -