ROYAL HONOURS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 218, 3 June 1918, Page 6

ROYAL HONOURS

BIRTHDAY CONFERMENTS

NEW ZEALAND LIST

His Excellency the Governor-General has been advised that His Majesty tho King has been pleased to confer the following honours on Iho occasion of His Majesty's Birthday:Knight Bachelor. JOHN WILLIAM SALMOND, Esq., M.A., LL.B., K.C., Solicitor-General, New Zealaud. C.M.G. (Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. 'Michael and St. George.) DR. HENRY LINDO FERGUSON, M.D., Dean of tho Facility of Medicine, Otago University. COLONEL CLARENCE REGINALD MACDONALD, Imperial General Staff, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Chief Infantry Instructor, Reinforcements Camp,' Trentham. JOSEPHUS HARGREAVES RICHARDSON, Esq., Commissioner.of the New Zealand Government Insuranco Department. 1.5.0. ■ \ (Companion of the Imperial Service Order.) ROBERT WEST HOLMES, Esq., Engi- •■ neer-in-Chief of the 'New Zealand Public Works Department.

PERSONAL NOTES Mr. J. W. Salmond, Solicitor-General to the New Zealand Government, ,was bom' in North Shields, Northumberland. He iv as a son of Professor W. Salmond, of Otago University, and himself held the Chair of Law at Adelaide University and Victoria College, Wellington. He was appointed counsel to the Law Drafting Office in 1907. He is the author of essays in jurisprudence and legal history (1901); jurisprudence (1902); law of torts (190<). Dr. H. L. Ferguson, M.A., M.D. (Dublin), F.R.C.S. (Ireland), LXQ.C.P. (Ireland), came to Otago University as Lecturer in Ophthalmology at tho Medical School. , „, ~. Colonel C. R. Macdonald (passed btail College) is a member of the Imperial General Staff, at present on duty in NewZealand as Chief Infantry Instructor at Trentham. He joined the New Zealand Staff in April, 1914. Colonel Macdonald served in the Indian North-west Frontier (King's Medal with two clasps) and in South Africa. Mr. J. H. Richardson has been Chief Commissioner of) • the Government Life Insurance since 1890. He had a distinguished career at Nelson College, and attained a high place in the Public Servipe examinations. He joined the Government Life Insurance Department as a cadet in ■ 1874, but resigned in 1877 owing to ill-health. The following year ho ioined the Mutual Life Association ot Australasia, but in 1882 resigned to. reenter his old office as .chief clerk. He became accountant two years later and secretary in 1886. Mr. Richardson is a past president of the New Zealand Insuranco Institute. , . Mr. It. AV. Holmes, Engineer-ra-Chiet to the New Zealand Government, was born in London in 1856, and entered the service of the New Zealand Government in IS7I. He became a cadet in the Public Works Department in 1872, and assistant engineer four years later. In 18/9 he became resident engineer; inspecting engineer in 1901; superintending engineer in 190G; and engineer-in-chief and marine engineer in 1907.