NEW YEAR HONOURS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 7

NEW YEAR HONOURS

BRITISH RECIPIENTS LIST INCLUDES FOUR NEW BARONS ONE BARONETCY CONFERRED Received Jan. 2, 6.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 1. Barons. Sir Maurice Hankey. Sir Cecil Harmsworth. Sir Arthur Greer. Sir Laurence Philipps. Baronet. Sir Peter Rylands. Knight of the Grand Cross ot the Victorian Order. Sir John C. Reith. Knight of the Grand Cross ot the Bath. Admiral Sir A. Dudley Pound. Knights Commander of the Bath. Vice-Admiral John H. Cunningham. Mr. E. E. Bridges, secretary of the Cabinet Committee of Imperial Defence. Knights of St. Michael and St. George. Eric Gustav Machtig. Cecil Graves, deputy director of the 8.8. C. Basil C. Newton. Knights of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Alexander Cadogan, permanent Under-Secretary. Neville Henderson. Knights Bachelor. J. G. Hay, member of the International Rubber Regulations Committee. Mr. A. Maitland, Member of the House of Commons for Faversham. Mr. F. J. Pearce, past president of the British Dental Association. Mr. S. J. Pigott, managing director of the shipbuilders, John Brown and Company. Lieutenant-Colonel Heaton ForbesRobinson. Mr. J. B. F. Watson. Privy Councillors. Mr. R. A. Butler, Member of the House of Commons for Saffron Walden and Captain H. F. C. Crookshank, member of the House of Commons for Gainsborough. Order of Merit. Lord Chatfield and James Jeans. Comjianions of the Order of the Bath. F. T. A. Ashton Watkin and W. Strang, who were members of Lord Runciman’s staff on the Czechoslovakian mission. THE AUSTRALIAN LIST ONE K.C.M.G. CREATED TWO KNIGHTS OF BRITISH EMPIRE. FIVE OTHER KNIGHTHOODS. Received Jan. 2, 6.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 2. The Australian honours list includes: Knight of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. Justice Starke, of the High Court. Knights of the British Empire. Reginald Marcus Clark, of Sydney, Henry Manning, Attorney General of the New South Wales Cabinet. Knights Bachelor. George Shaw Knowles, SolicitorGeneral of the Commonwealth. Doctor John Ramsay, of Launceston. William Dixson, of Sydney. George Louis Goudie, of Victoria. Walter Duncan, Leader of the Government and Legislative Council of South Australia.