NEW ZEALAND PEER.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2432, 3 January 1931, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND PEER.

. . v SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD. NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST. Australian Press Assn. —United Service RUGBY, Dec. 31. Heading the list of New Year Honours conferred by the King, are the names of four new peers. They include: Sir Ernest Rutherford, the physicist and authority on radio activity, a former President of the Royal Society. (Lord Rutherford was bom. at Nelson in 1871, and received his first education at Nelson College and Canterbury College. He took a degree in the New Zealand University with high honours, raid went to Cambridge with an 1851 Exhibition scholarship for science. He is world-famous for research into the electron and radio activity, and has been awarded the Nobel Prize, as -well as being honoured by the leading universities of the world. He married in 1900 Miss Mary Newton, of Christchurch. His parents live at New Ply-, mouth. He was knighted in 1914, and awarded the Order of Merit in 1925.

KNIGHTHOOD FOR AUCKLANDER. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Thursday. According to an announcement issued by the Governor-General, Lord Blcdisloe, His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the new year, to confer the following honours:— KNIGHT BACHELOR. Mr Arthur Dudley Dobson, of Christchurch. Mr Cecil Leys, of Auckland. C.M.G. Mr George Alexander Troup, Mayor of Wellington. Mr Alexander Crabb, secretary of the High Commissioner’s Department, London. In addition, Mr William Waddel, superintendent, State Advances Department, Wellington, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and the Samoan High Chief, Malietoa Tanumafili, has been made an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

The name of Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson, who is a veteran New Zealand explorer, is perpetuated by Arthur’s Pass, between Canterbury and Westland, which he discovered when only 21 years of age. At the time lie was endeavouring to find a route through the Southern Alps to th| West Coast Goldfields. Sir Arthur was born in London in .1842 and came to New Zealand in Although now 89 years of age he still carries on a private practice as an engineer in Christchurch. •The New Zealand press has been honoured in the conferring of the distinction of Knight Bachelor on Mr Cecil Leys, managing director of the Auckland Star. He joined the Star 35 years ago as a reporter and has been with the paper ever since. He is president of the Leys Institute, founded by his father at Ponsohby, and a member of the council of the Auckland Institute and Museum.