BIRTHDAY HONOURS
CONFERRED UPON NEW ZEALANDERS
MR. JOHN ROBERTS KNIGHTED
His Excellency tlio Governor-General has been advised that His Majesty tlio King has been graciously pleased, oil tlio occasion of His Majesty's Birthday, to confer upon Mr, John Roberts, C.M.G., of Dunedin, the honour of Knight Bachelor, and upon Mr. Thomas Noel Brodrick, 0.8. E., Under-Secretary lands and Survey Department, Wellington, tlio honour of Companion of the Imperial Service Order.
Sir John Roberts, who is the managing partner in the firm nf Messrs. Murray. Roberts, and Co., was born at Selkirk, Scotland, in 1845, and was educated in Edinburgh, lie arrived in Dunedin from Melbourne in IS6B, and started the business o£ tho now well-known firm. Hb Avns president of the South Seas 35xhibition, held in Dunedin in 18S9-90, in the Jiiittcr year being Mayor of tho southern city. He was decorated C.M.G. in 1591 in recognition of his services in connfction with tho exhibition. He represented ICnikorai district 111 the Otago Provincial Council, and -s a director of the "Onion Steam Ship Company and the Christrthuroh Meat Company. Mr. T. N. Brodrick was born in London in 1555, and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1860. Ho licensed to practise as a surveyor :n 1877, and joined the Government Survey Department. Ho was appointed district eutvevor for the Canterbury Crown lands District in ISB7, district surveyor in North Canterbury in 1895. and inspecting surveyor and land officer at Gisborne in 1900, and later held tlw positions of Cony missioner of Crown in/Havrkes Bay, Canterbury, and Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 213, 3 June 1920, Page 6
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259BIRTHDAY HONOURS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 213, 3 June 1920, Page 6
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