NEW YEAR HONOURS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2659, 3 January 1916, Page 6

NEW YEAR HONOURS

AN EXTENSIVE LIST by Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright :(Rec. January 2, 5.6 p.m.), ' London, January I'. In, tho Now eYar Honour list there appear the following:— - . . ' .Knights of tho Garter—Lord Ourzon Md the Maxqiiis of Devonshire. A A'iscountdy is given to Lord Mersey, who has officiated as chairman of several important, Royal Commissions... :. ~ ■ Baronies—Lord'Beresford, Sbaughnessy/ .William AVaidorf Astor, David Alfred Thomas, the coalowner • Sir ■:. Aloxander Henderson, M.P.; and.'Gecil Norton, M.P. • Pnvy Councillors. included Mr.. G. ,N. Barnes, Ir"abour M.P:, and Mr. Will Crooks, M.P. Baronetcies include Admiral Sir F. 0." , D. Stiirdee and' Mr.' Edward Goschen." Knighthoods include Mr. - Thomas Beecliam, the' conductor, and Mr. 80. . water, Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Knights'. include Lanchlan Charles Mackinnon,' one of the proprietors of the • "Argus," Melbourne, and Henry Griggs, a legislative councillor of West Aus- ■ tralia. Many honours have been granted to civilians in recognition of .their efforts in connection with the organisation'and production of war materials, and the raising <}f war funds'. . Guopratto (?) has been promoted Com- •: mander of tho Bath ill recognition of his • sorvices commanding tho French squadron while co-operating in the Dar- ' dandies'.' .: .Commanders of St. Michael and St. • George include Sir -Charles Macliellar, of Sydney, and C.M.G., Nelson Hood, a ■Victorian. MR. THOMASMACKENZIE IN THE NEW YEAR HONOUR LIST. : : (Rec. January. 2, 5.5 p.m.) - London, December 31., • In the New Year Mr. T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner, 'is made K.C.M.G., and Mr. O. Wray Palliser, . secretary- to the New Zealand High Commissioner, is given O.M.G. SIR, THOMAS MACKENZIE. Tho. Hon. Sir Thomas Mackenzie was born In Edinburgh in March 10, 1854,' and whilst quito a child came out to Now Zealand with "' his parents, who .' settled m Dunedin.- Sir Thomas was educated -in the North Dunedin School, better known in those early days' as ''-the Stone School." . After engaging .in .commercial pursuits in Dunedin, Sir Thomas went to Balclutha, where he . established a general merchant's .business.;; for many years he was identified with '.tho; publio and business' affairs of Clutha; i: and las _ "Clutha . Tam" was popularly; known in political circles. He entered Parliament in 1887 as repre- •'; sentative, of. Clutha, and was. returned for that, seat'until 1896, in which year he went to England ,as representative i of New Zealand agencies in' London. Lieturning to New Zealand in,1899 he, in the :■ following ' year,' successfully congested the AYaihemo elwitorate, after, the-. retirement of Sir-John M'Kenzie. In /1902, and ; again- in _1905, he was returned for Waikouaiti; in 1908 for Tai-,-'-sri; and in 1911 for Patca. In Sir Joseph.'Ward's Ministry Sir Thomas Mackenzie was included as Minister of '•: Agriculture, and on the • resignation of the AVard Government in 1912 he was selected, by tho Liberal-Labour Party :as-'their, leader,:arid ho;became' Prime Minister of . the Dbminian, holding office ' imtH, iri'July of' the same year/his Gov- , eminent was 'defeated on a want-of-,'confidence motion, moved in tho House by Mr.', Massey, the-present Prime Minister of; the Dominion. Subsequently; in 'he same year, he was appointed to succeed the Hon. Sir William Hall-Jones is 1 Higli Commissioner for New Zealand n London, a position' he" still occupies. , 'For many' years Sir Thomas took a, very active ,jiart ,n. .the., administration of .affairs iducational in Otago, and was chairnan of the Education Board of that .'irovince. He was also prominent in and charitable aid .board .mat-, 'ters. In: the.;''eighties-he was. an arj -dent explorer, and no one 'did bfetter work than he for the opening up of the tourist; tracks between the Cold Lakes and Milford Sound; and when Professor' Mainwaring Brown;, of Otago University, was lost in the mountains at the head of Lake , Manapouri the ' new . Knight" organised' arid headed the relief party which conducted a thorough • and hazardous .but unsuccessful' search. Sir T. Mackenzie w'as elected Fellow of ' , the Royal Geographical Society in 1870, and Fellow of the Colonial Institute in 1886..,..,. ; Mr. C. .E. AVray Palliser, in the-early 'eighties, ;waß sent from the .New-. Zealand Audit Office to; fill tlio position of ..auditor to the Agent-General's office in London.. 'Later dri he became accountant -ill the New Zealand Home Office,, . an d_ when Sir Walter Kenn'away retired in 1910 Mr. Palliser was appointed secretary of the. High Commissioner's Office. . ■■ ■'