BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Wanganui Chronicle, 10 June 1948, Page 5

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

PRINCIPAL NAMES IN THE BRITISH LIST Recd. 6 p m. London. June 9. Included in the King’s Birthday Honours list are the following:— Barons. Sir A. E. Webb, surgeon to Queen Mary and President of the Royal College or Surgeons in England since 1941. Sir William Francis Kyffln Taylor, former president of the Liverpool Court of Passage, aged 93, Doyen of the English bar. Mr. Thomas Edward Wulliams, a member of the National Council of Labour, for political and public services. Privy Councillor Sir Frank Soskice, M.P., SolicitorGeneral since 1945. G.C,B. (Knight of the Grand Cross of tlje Order ot the Bath). Sir Gilbert Francis Montriou Campion, clerk of the House of CommonsG.B.E. (Knight of the Grand Cross of the British Empire). Sir Reginald Wilding Allen Leeper, British Ambassador in Buenos Aires. K.C.M.G. (Knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George). General Sir Alan Cunningham, formerly High Commissioner in tineK.B.E. (Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Acting Air Commodore Frank Whittle, R.A.F., inventor of the jet engine. Knights Bachelor. Mr. Arthur Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mr. James Raitt Brown, secretary of the Church Commissioners for England. Mr. Charles Blake Cochran, theatrical producer, and managerMr. William Gilliat, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist, who will attend Princess Elizabeth. Mr. Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman of Lever Bros. Unilever, Ltd. Mr, Ellis Hunter, deputy chairman and managing director of the Dorman Long Company, president of the Iron and Steel Federation. Companions of Honour. Mr. Walter De La Mare, poet and M.P. Mr. Wjlliam Whiteley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. Mr- Christopher Chancellor, general manager of Reuters, has been awarded the C.M.G. (Companion of the Most Excellent Order of St. Michael and St. George).

Australian List

Recd. 5-40 p.m. London, June 9. The Australian Birthday Honours include:—

K.C.M.G.: Mr. Albert Dunstan, Minister of Health and formerly Premier of Victoria. Knights Bachelor: Messrs. Charles George Latham, M.L.C., Western Australia, and Norbert Keenan, M.L.A., Western Australia, Mr. Justice Herbert Mavo, Supreme Court, South Australia, Mr. John -Dudley Gibbs Medley, vice-chancellor of Melbourne University, Mr. John Newman Morris chairman of the National Council of the Australian Red Cross, for outstanding services in Red Cross matters and voluntary hospital work in Victoria, Mr. Gordon Burns Rolph, director of the “Examiner," Launceston, for services in connection with the press and broadcasting.