NEW YEAR HONOURS

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13673, 2 January 1918, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS

NEW ZEALAND RECIPIENTS. The Governor-General has been advised that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer the following honours on the occasion of the New Year: — Knights Bachelor. The Hon. William Eraser, Minister for Public Works. Mr John Robert Sinclair, formerly a member of the Legislative Council, and lately representative of New Zealand on the Trade of the Empire Royal Commission. Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Colonel Charles Mont Gibbon, Royal Irish Eusiliers, Chief of the General Staff. Lieut.-Colonel Louis Edward Rarnet, New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Norton Francis, Director of Base Records in New Zealand. SOLDIERS DECORATED. MAJOR DAWSON GETS C.M.G. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Prime Minister has received the list of New Zealand honours conferred on members of the New Zealand Expeditionary "Force, including the following:— » K.C.B.—General Sir Andrew Russell. C.B.—Colonel C. M. Begg. C.M.G.- —Lieut.-Colonel N. S. Ealla, Lieutenant-Colonel George T. Hamp-son-Hall, Major Thomas H. Dawson, and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Mill. Bar to D.S.O.—Lieutenant-Colonels George Augustus King, D.5.0., Hugh Stewart. M.C.,» D.5.0., James Henry Whyte, D.S.O. D.S.O.—LieutenantrColonels Stephen Shepherd Allen, Alex. Burnet Charters. | C.M.G., James Neil McCarroll, George j Michell, Charles Trevarthan Hand j Newton, Robert Amos Row, Claude 1 Horace Weston, Temporary Lieuten- | ant-Colonels Halbert Cecil Glendining, Edward Puttick, Majors Frederick Cameron, William Oliver Ennis, David John Gibbs, Edward James Hulbert, John Mcßae, Donald Sincl'tir Murchison, Clarence Nathaniel Newman, Harry McKellar White Richardson, James McDonald Richmond, Alan Duncan Stitt. Hugh Yickerman. There are also 39 Military Crosses, five nurses receive the Royal Red Cross, 14 cD.C.M.'s, 15 Meritorious Service Medals and five Military Medals. The Military Cross :Rev. Walter McLean, chaplain, Captains Forbes Herbert Anderson, Norman Annabell, William Gilbert Borrie, David Bruce, John Connor, Harry Delamere Dansev, Robert Wakelin Dunn, James Evans, Kenneth Farquharson Gordon, James Gordon Jefferv, Frederick Noel Johns, Hector Campbell Mackenzie, Cyril Henry Molloy, Bruce Haultain Morison, Thomas Wyville L. Rutherfurd, Joseph Kendrick Venables, William Huatahi Walker, Malcolm McPherson Watt, Thomas Martin Wilkes, Newman Ro-1 bert Wilson; Lieutenants Ralph Fitzroger Beetham, Ralph John Black, James Type Da'llinger, Arthur Gordon Dean, Alfred Onslow Glasse, Roland Justice Hill, Christopher Ingram, Henry Mark Keesing, Edward Levien, Gerald Lyon, Ewen John McGregor, Alfred Thomas White; 2nd Lieutenants Guy Bridgeman, Fritz Stanley Goulding, Gordon Vearney Gow, Charles Ronald McKenzie, George Albert Tuck, Albert George Wainscott. Royal Red Cross, Second Class: Sister Mary Frances Looney, Staff Nurse Susannah Josephine McGann, Nurses Lucy Martin Trumble, Ida Grace Willis, Frances May Billington. Distinguished Conduct Medal L.-Cpl. Noel David Bowman, Cpi. Walter Whiston Bullock, Pte. Victor Cruickshank, Rflm. John Densem, Gnr. Alfred Selby, Driver-Sgt. Frederick Groig, Sgt-Major 1 Wm. Alfred Gustafson, Rflm. Snndy Nelson Managh, Josenh MeCreanor, Kenneth McKenzie, Athol Wm. Merrill; Ohlson, Henry W ooles Price, Lawrence Robert Ritchie, Sidney Wade. Meritorious Service Medal: Duncan Cameron, Samuel Stanley Choate, Ernest Sydney Colebrook, Stanley Vincent Forrest, George Harrv Griffin, Albert Hector Guy, Reginald En men Hunt, Thomas Jones, Timothy Kenna, James Grant Langrisn, George Edward Lovell. Wm. James Mercer, Gilbert Richard Robinson, Lewis Shaw, Harold Levett Walden. Military Medal: Keith Campbell. John Smith, Robert Kidd, Edward James Pycroft, John Frederick Wilsher. CAPTAIN D. BRUCE. Captain D. Bruce is well-known in «aikato. f having resided for many years at Te Pahu and more recently at Hinuera. He took an active interest in local affairs being a mem tier of the Raglan County Council until he left Te Pahu. He was a keen volunteer, and although on the Reserve when warbroke out, offered his services, which were accepted, and on reaching England he was attached to the Pioneers under Lieut-Colonel G. A. King, with whom he had been previously associated in the 4th W aikato Mounted Rifles. lieut. e. j. McGregor.

e ?«« McGregor is the elder son of Mr Ewen McGregor of Hamilton. He was an enthusiastic- member of the Machine Gun Section of the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles, and left, as a sergeant in the -Machine Gun Section of the Main Body. He saw service on Gallijpoli. where he received his commission, and later in Fiance when lie was wounded, having returned to New Zealand a few months a go. AN AUSTRALIAN KNIGHTED. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received January 1, 8.35 p.m. LONDON, January 1. Hon. G. C. Wade, Agent-General for New South Wales, has been knighted. The issue, of the Dominion's list of Orders of the British Empire has been postponed for some weeks.