SERVICE RECOGNISED

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 8

SERVICE RECOGNISED

! The honours conferred upon Sir .George Shirtcliffe and Sir James i Hutchison are truly, lo quote the official announcement, "in recognition of services rendered to the Dominion." Sir George Shirtcliffe has now completed thirty years of conspicuously useful public work. For many years he was a valued member of Wellington civic and commercial governing bodies and since retiring from these he has given his time and experience to Dominion activities. His gifts for ihe public benefit have been many and most generous; but he has also given personal service, particularly in ihe encouragement of research, of great and lasting worth. The name of Sir James Hutchison may not be so well known outside Dunedin, for Sir James, true to the English journalistic tradition, has never sought personal prominence. His work, however, is seen throughout New Zealand in the high reputation of the "Olago Daily Times" of which he has been the editor for over 25 years. The integrity, accuracy, and sagacity for which the "Times" is widely and highly praised are the greatest testimonial lo the public service of the experienced and able journalist who has for sp long directed the paper. The honour to Sir James Hutchison is one which will be warmly welcomed by the whole body of working journalists who prize the high reputation of their profession which lie has so worthily upheld. The other honours in the New Year's list, and particularly those conferred upon tho Prime Minister's secretary and the Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, will be fully approved by the public as recognilion of service so quietly and efficiently performed that it is almost Unnoticed except by the public men who know that without the help thus given their own capacity to serve would be greatly hampered.