GREETINGS SENT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 470, 3 June 1932, Page 1

GREETINGS SENT.

Message to His Majesty the King. GOOD WISHES FOR N.Z. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 2. Following is a copy of a cable message which has been despatched by the Governor-General to the King on the occasion of his Majesty’s Birthday:— | I desire to tender to your Majesty, ( on the occasion of your birthday, the ( loyal and affectionate good wishes of your Majesty’s Government and people of New Zealand, and to convey to you the assurance of their ' onstant and unflagging devotion to your Majesty and Throne. TWO KNIGHTHOODS. Sir W. D. Hunt and Sir A. C. Day. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 2. The Governor-General announced today that the King had been graciously pleased, on the occasion of his Majesty’s birthday, to confer the following honours:— KNIGHT BACHELOR. William Duff us Hunt, of Wellington, managing director of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. Albert Cecil Day, Official Secretary to the Governor-General. C.M.G. Alexander Dallas Park, Secretary to the Treasury. Professor James I light, rector of Canterbury University College. C.B.E. , George M’Namara, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. Sir Albert Day. Sir Albert Cecil Day, C.8.E., is official secretary to his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. He was born in 1884, and is the son of Mr C. F. Day, of Eastington, Gloucestershire. He married Miss Clara Katherine Fisher, daughter of the late Mr W. Fisher, also of Gloucestershire. He was educated at the Northleach Grammar School and privately, and was assistant estate agent to Lord Islington from 1906 to 1910. He was assistant private secretary to Lord Islington (Governor-General of New Zealand) from 1910 to 1912 and to the Earl of Liverpool from 1912 to 1913. t He has occupied the position of official secretary to Governors-General since 1914. Sir William Hunt. Sir William Duffus Hunt is the • managing director of Messrs Wright, 1 Stephenson and Co. f Wellington. He was born in Auckland in 1867, and j was married in 1894. He was educated in Auckland and Otago. For six years he engaged in farming, and then, in ‘ 1891, joined the staff of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., taking up a position at Gore. The year 1894 found him [ at the head office of the firm at Dunedin. Two years later he opened the | Southland branch as resident partner _ and manager. In 1918 he transferred to Wellington with the head office. \ Sir William is a member of the [ New Zealand Meat Control Board, . representing stock and station agents: a member of the New Zealand ’ Dairy Export Control Board, representing dairy factory proprietors and k dairy produce exporters; and chair- ' man of the Karitane Products Society of New Zealand. He was president of ’ the Invercargill Chamber of Comr merce for three years, and was chairman of the Public Service Royal Com- ’ mission in 1912, and of the Taxation ' Commission in 1923. He was also a member of the Royal Commission on ’ Taxation in the following year. Sir William was a member of the New • Zealand Board of Agriculture from 1912 to 1918, and has been a member of the council of the New Zealand Agricultural Society since its inception. Professor Hight. Professor James Hight, M.A., Litt.D., C.M.G., is rector of Canterbury University College, where he occupies the Chair of History. He was born in Christchurch and married Miss Margaret Frances Green. He was educated at the Malvern School and at Canterbury College. He graduated to the position of pupil | teacher at the Mai- j vern School in 1887, I and three years later became a student teacher at the Christchurch Training College, i He obtained his j B.A. degree in 1893 j (being senior' scholar in English ! and French) and his j M.A. degree in 1894 (gaining first-class j {honours in English and French). Two | years later he became English and ComI mercial Master at the Auckland College I ; and the Auckland Grammar School, i From 1897 to 1901 he occupied the posi- I tion of chief modern languages master i and lecturer in French to the Auckland ! Education Board. In the latter year ! he was appointed lecturer on political j • economy and constitutional history at j Canterbury College, and became editor j of the “ New Zealand Schoolmaster.” In 1906 he was chosen as director of studies in commerce at Canterbury Col- { lege, and became Doctor of Literature, being the first in New Zealand. In 1904 he was made a Fellow of the Royal