NEW YEAR HONOURS IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 9

NEW YEAR HONOURS IN AUSTRALIA

New Knights Created SIR M. ROBERTSON RECEIVES K.B.E. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 1, 7 p.m.) Sydney, January 1. The following is the list of New Year honours conferred in the Commonwealth of Australia: — To Be K.C.M.G. Professor Albert Cherbury David Rivett. To Be K.B.E. Sir Macpherson Robertson. To Be K.B. Mr. Ernest Cooper Riddle. Mr. Colin Campbell Stephen, Mr. Colin Eraser, Brigadier-General Carl Herman Jess, Dr. Raphael West Cllento, Major-Gen. Thomas! Blarney, Mr. Harry Campbell Budge. To Be C.M.G. Mr. Malcolm Lindsay Shepherd, Dr. William Ernest Jones. Captain Leigl}ton Seymour Bracegirdle. To Be C.B.E. Mrs. Pattie Deakin, Mr. George Lewis Aitken, Mr. William Janies Kessell, Mr. Wilfred Russell Grimwa.de, Mr. Albert Edmund Kane, Cr. Thomas Sydney Nettlefold, Mr. Charles Arthur Norris. For the first time within memory a posthumous civil honour has been conferred on an Australian. Mrs. Deakiu has been created a Commander of the British Empire. She died on Sunday. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES

Professor Sir Albert Rivett is deputy chairman and chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He holds the degrees of M.A. and B.Sc. (Oxen) and D.Sc. (Melbourne and Victoria). Born in Tasmania in 1885, he was educated at Wesley College; Melbourne, Queen’s College at Melbourne University, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He attended the Nobel Institute at Stockholm, and was the Victorian Rhodes Scholar for 1907. In T9ll he became chemistry lecturer at the Melbourne University, and from 1924 to 1927 was professor. Sir Macpherson Robertson, head of the great firm of confectioners, Macrobqrtson’e, which from small beginnings he raised to its present proportions, is well known as a philanthropist. His gift of £20,000 rendered possible the last two Antarctic expeditions under Sir Douglas Mawson; his prizes of £15,000 and £5OOO drew airmen from all over the world to compete in the celebrated centenary air race from England to Melbourne; and in 1933 be placed £lOO,OOO at x the disposal of the State of Victoria to register his pride in being a citizen of that State, which had so fine a record over the first century of its history. Sir Ernest Riddle was born and bred at Narrabri, where his father was a pastoralist, owner of Gunddmaine Station. After ;nore than 25 years in the Bank of Australasia, he joined the Commonwealth Bank in 1915, was manager at Perth from then until 1923, acting-manager and chief inspector at Sydney the two following years, and in 1924 manager at Melbourne. From 1925 to 1927 ho was deputy-governOr, and since 1927 he has been governor of the bank, , Sir Raphael Cilento. M.D., B.S. (Adel.),’D.M.T. and H. (Eng.) (F.0.T.), studied at Adelaide and at London, and won the Duncan and Lapcaca medal of the London School of Tropical Medicine, and the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at London University. Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicjne at Townsville, Queensland, for over five years, and Director of Public Health and Quarantine for the Mandated Territory of New Guinea for four years, and later Director of Tropical Hygiene, Health and •Chief Quarantine Officer for the North Eastern Division, he visited and examined health conditions throughout all ad- ( ministrations from Fiji to Papua in 1928 and 1929, at the request of the League of Nations. He is the author of many erudite treatises on tropical disease, and now supervises researches in that subject at the Commonwealth Health Department, Canberra. Sir Harry Cambell Budge entered the New South Wales Public Service in 1889 and has been official VCretnry to the Governor since 1002 and to the Executive Council since 1016. He is also hon. secretary to the Ben Fuller University Trust. Sir Colin Campbell Stephen, solicitor and notary public, is chairman of the Australian Jockey Club, of the Brown and lAbermain Collieries, of the Scottish Hospital, and of the Australian Polo Council. Brigadier-General Sir Carl Herman Jess, C.M.G., C.8.E., D. 5.0., Serbian Order of the White Eagle, the holder of a distinguished war record,’who organised the Melbourne centenary celebrations, is now Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth Military Forces. ... . Major-General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., has been Chief Commissioner of Police in the State of Victoria since 1925 and was in 1933 permanently appointed to that office. Sir Colin Fraser, Melbourne, is a New Zealander who began his career as a geologist in t'he Department of Geological Survey nearly 30 years ago. After attending Auckland University College he ■joined the department in about 1905 and .specialised in mining work, being for some time in the Thames and Coromandel districts. He left the department and moved to Australia in 1913, where he became a highly successful mining geologist. Mr. Malcolm Lindsay Shepherd, C.M.G., Secretary for Defence, was born in 1873 at Cambewarra, New South Wales. After II years of public service in the Post Office, he was transferred from Sydney to Melbourne, on the establishment pf the central staff of the Post-master-General’s Department in 1901. In 1904 he began secretarial work for the Prime Ministers between 1904 and 1921, and in the latter vear became official secretary for the Commonwealth in Great Britain. In 1923 the French Government conferred on him the order of Commander of the Order of the Nichan Iftikhar. He was Australian delegate to the second assembly of the League of Nations, and since 1927 has held office as' secretary to the Department of Defence. Captain Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle, C.M.G., D. 5.0., served as a midshipman in China in 1900 and 1901, and as a lieutenant in South Africa; he holds the China medal and the South African medal with three clasps. During the Great War he served as lieutenant, lieutenantcommander. and commander, in German New Guinea, at Suvla Bay, and at Gallipoli; he was awarded the D.S.O. in 1916, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. He became a captain in 1924, was Director of Naval Reserves and Mobilisation from 1929 to 1931, and since then has been military and official secretary to the Governor-General. Mrs. Pattie Deakin, C.8.E., was the widow of the late Hon. Alfred Deakin, three times Prime Minister of Australia, who died in 1919 She was an hon, associate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, first president of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria, first president and life vice-president of the Association of Creches, first president of the Lyceum Club of Melbourne and life vice-president of the Melbourne District Nursing Society, vice-president of the Guild of Play and a member of the Welfare Committee of the lin bless Soldiers’ Association of Victoria, and these were but part of her interests. During the war she gave her services in hospital work.

Mr. George Lewis Aitken, 0.8. E., of

Langi Willi .Station iu Victoria, manager of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Melbourne, has been, since its inception, with the exception of two years, president of the National Council of Woolselling Brokers of Australia. He is also president, of the Pastoral Research Trust, and director of several other companies. , Mr. William James Kessell, C.8.E., Wallaroo, joined the New South Wales Public Service as a clerk in the Department of. Justice; he rose to be first assistant Under-Secretary, then Undersecretary ; aud since 1933 has held the position of Public Trustee. Doctor William Ernest Jones, C.M.G., is Inspector-General ef Hospitals tor the Insane.

Mr. Wilfred Russell Grimswude, C.B.E. director of several leading chemical and oxygen companies, chairman of the Victorian Committee of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council, a member of the advisory committee of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and presides* of the Australian Forest League, is.noted as a benefactor of educational institutes. It was he who purchased Captain Cook’s cottage as a gift to Victoria on the occa sion of the centenary of the State. Mr. Albert Edmund Kane, 0.8. E., was born in Antrim County, Ireland, and came to Australia in 1888 by the barque Warwick Castle. He is a member of the Melbourne City Council and chairman o f the publicity committee of the Centenary Celebrations Council. Mr. Thomas Sydney Nettlefold, C.8.E.,. is chairman of the finance committee ot the Centenary Council. Mr. Charles Arthur Norris, C.8.E., is a member of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.