TWO NEW ZEALAND KNIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 10

TWO NEW ZEALAND KNIGHTS

NEW YEAR HONOURS ANNOUNCED

DECORATIONS FOR NURSING SERVICE

CIVIL DIVISION. , Knight Bachelor. THE HONOURABLE HENRY HUBERT OSTLER, Judge of the Supreme y Court of New Zealand, Wellington. . CHARLES MANLEY LUKE, J.P., ■ .Wellington. Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.). ;' ARTHUR TELFORD DONNELLY, Christchurch. THOMAS DONALD HORN HALL, ,Clerk of the House of Representatives, Wellington. Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CJS.E.). THOMAS REGINALD AICKIN, Private Secretary to the Minister of Finance, Wellington. ARTHUR WILLIAM MULLIGAN, formerly Private Secretary to the Minister of Lands, Wellington. Officer of the Order of the British Empire (0.8. E.). SIDNEY JOHN HARRISON, General Secretary of the New Zealand Returned :." Soldiers' Association, Wellington. DR. ALICE WOODWARD HORSLEY, Auckland. SAMUEL SALTZMAN, Dunedin. Member of the Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.). • MISS BEATRICE ALICE CAMPJELL, Matron of the Public Hospital, lew Plymouth. - MISS ISABEL MONA CORKILL, ... iurse Maude District Nursing Associa- -. .ion, Christchurch. MISS NORA FHILOMENA FITZJIBBON, nursing adviser to the Plunet Society, Dunedin. v MRS. MARY FANNY GABY, lady .: orps superintendent, St. John Ambumce Brigade, Wellington. ':■■■ MISS MARY JOSEPHINE MARTIN, • Matron of the Sunnyside Mental Hosiital, Christchurch. MISS CECILIA McKENNY, Presi'ent of the New Zealand Registered furses' Association, Pahiatua. MISS JANET ANNE MOORE, nurse nstructor. Department of Health, Wel- .■■;"■' iington. MILITARY DIVISION. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.8.E.). ' GROUP CAPTAIN THE HONOUR- . VBLE RALPH ALEXANDER COCHANE, A.F.C., R.A.F., Air Department, ; "ellington. . Officer of the Order of the British * Empire (0.8. E.). - ' MAJOR ' STANLEY HERBERT ttUMP, Deputy Quartermaster Gen•Ed and Director of Supplies and ransport. Army Headquarters, Wel- , tngton. Member of the Order of the British Bmpire (M.8.E.). - STAFF SERGEANT - MAJOR - IEORGE FERGUSON MacCULLOCH, ' . \rmy School of Instruction, Trentham. Medal of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division). CHIEF PETTY OFFICER WRITER ARCHIE VICTOR STYLES, New Zealand Naval Forces, Wellington. SIR HENRY OSTLER, K.B. The Hon. Sir Henry Hubert Ostler has been Judge of the Supreme Court since 1924. He was born at Timaru in 1876, his father being the late Mr. William H. Ostler, of Ben Ohau Station. He .was educated at Christ's Hospital, Lon- ;'.. don, and upon returning to New Zealand was engaged in farming in the Levin district for some years. He was a keen Rugby footballer and represented Horowhenua, Manawatu, and Levin. From 1901 to 1904 he studied .at Victoria University College and graduated LL.B. in 1905. He was associate to Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, for some years, and was editor of the New Zealand Law Reports from 1907 to 1910. He then occupied the position of Crown Solicitor and first ' assistant law officer, Crown Law Office, until 1915, when he joined the firm of Jackson, Russell, Tunks, and Ostler. He was in practice as a member of that firm until appointed to the Supreme Court Bench. He has been a member of the Council of Legal Education since its creation, chairman of the Prisons Board since 1938, a member of the Victoria University College Council since 1929, being chairman in 1913-14, and has been a member of th-3 New Zealand University Senate and occupied numerous other positions. SIR CHARLES LUKE. Sir Charles Luke is one of the best-! 1 known figures in public life in Wellington, and has been associated with the capital city's development over a very long period. His record of public service is probably unique in the Dominion. He was a member of the Legislative Council for seven years, from 1907 to 1914, and was Mayor of Wellington in 1884-85. He was a member '■■' of the Hospital Board for forty-eight years, elected first in 1885. Educa- ; tionally, he has been on school committees, the Education ' Board, the Technical School Board, and is exofficio member of the College Board of '- Governors and the Harbour Board. He was. president of the Central Chamber of Commerce for some years, as well as member of the council of the Chamber of Commerce. He has been president and member of the Manufac- ; hirers' and Industrial Association. Mr. LUke was commissioner of the National Esmibition and South Seas Exhibition. He has been a member of the v Patriotic and War Relief Association 1 since its inception, and was for eight years a vice-president; a member of the War Funds Council, a Justice of the Peace,, for nearly forty years, and , president of various sports bodies and other local institutions. On the occasion of his retirement from the Hospital Board in 1933, many tributes were "paid to his public service. He is the only surviving member of the old Hospital Trustees Board, which controlled the hospital in 1885. Mr. Lake was a member of the Royal Commission on Federation with Australia in 1901, has played a prominent part in Methodist Church and has served on. the Chamber of Commerce, the Wellington

His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, announced at the weekend that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the New Year, to confer the following honours in recognition of services rendered to the Dominion:—

Education Board, the Wellington Technical College Board, the Wellington Harbour Board, the Wellington College Board of Governors, and the managing body of the V.M.C.A. MR. A. T. DONNELLY, C.M.G. Mr. Donnelly, C.M.G., of Christ- j church, is chairman pf the Bank of New Zealand. He was appointed a Government director of the Bank of New Zealand in April, 1935, when1 he succeeded Sir Robert Anderson, C.M.G., who;> resigned for reasons of health. ; Mr. Donnelly is ■ one of the leading barristers in Christ-! church, having been Crown Prosecutor I since 1921. He was born in Christchurch in 1890, and was educated at the Marist Brothers' School, the Christchurch Boys' High School, and Canterbury College, where he graduated LL.B. He was admitted a barrister and solicitor in 1911, and entered into partnership with his father. From . 1916 to 1919 Mr. Donnelly served in France with the Otago Regiment. Mr. I Donnelly is a member of the firm of t Raymond, Stringer, Hamilton, and t Donnelly. He is a member of the Can- i terbury College Board of Governors, I and for a considerable time was chair- | man of the New Zealand Cricket Coun- 1 cil" until he retired recently. It is i Mr. Donnelly that cricketers have I largely to thank for the visits of many c English teams to this country. When I he was in England in 1931 he made a t remarkable impression in official t circles, and his interviews, both of- I ficial and unofficial, with the leading s administrators of the Marylebone Cric- t ket Club have been of lasting benefit. v It was only of recent years that he s gave up active cricket, and he re- f mains a member of the West Christ- c church Club. [ s MR. T. D. H. HALL, C.M.G. * Mr. Hall was born in Wellington in c 1885, and was educated at State s Schools, Wanganui Collegiate School, \ and Wellington College, where, before " 15 years of age, he won scholarships aggregating in value the sum of £200. He matriculated at Wellington College, x and also passed the junior public ser- £ vice entrance examination, and graduated LL.B. at Victoria University College. In 1901 Mr. Hall joined the Railway Department as a cadet, but a c few months later was transferred to \ the Department of Agriculture, where he had 20 years' service, broken by 3& ( years during which he was at the war. t In June, 1921, Mr. Hall was appointed t assistant law draftsman, being for l many years associated with the draft- ? ing of important measures, particular- t ly those affecting local bodies. In t 1930 he was appointed Clerk of the £ House of Representatives,, succeeding \ Mr. E. W. Kane, C.M.G. Mr. Hall is s a member of the Wellington executive £ and the New Zealand Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, New Zealand branch, a member of the Economic Society of Australia and New r Zealand, and a member of the coun- c cil of the New Zealand Academy of 1 Fine Arts. He has contributed articles c to "New Zealand Affairs" and "The ( Economic Record." Mr. Hall is a life g member of the New Zealand Library \ Association and its president for this c year. In 1936 he visited America as t the guest of the Carnegie Corporation, % and had many opportunities of study- I ing cultural developments in that J country. f Mr. Hall is president and a life t member of the New Zealand Libraries r Association. \ MR. T. R. AICKIN, C.B.E. \ Mr. Thomas Reginald Aickin was 2 born at Cambridge, Waikato, in 1886. ] He entered the railway service in 1901. t He left New Zealand in 1915 with the ■; Ist Battalion, New Zealand Rifle s Brigade, and ultimately became adj.ut- c ant with the rank of captain. Was with i the Army of Occupation in Germany after the Armistice, and returned to New Zealand in 1918, as ship's adjutant in the Corinthic. On his return he < was shortly after transferred from the 1 Railway Department to the Secretarial l Corps, and has since successively J served as private secretary to the ' Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, the Hon. W. * Downie Stewart, the Hon. W. B. Taver- } ncr, the Hon. W. A. Veitch, and his | present Minister, the Hon. W. Nash. ' When associated with the Hon. W. ' Downie Stewart Mr. Aickin visited Honolulu in connection with trade . negotiations with the Canadian Gov- ' ernment, and shortly after accompanied Mr. Stewart to Ottawa, where the Imperial Conference was held. In , 1937 he accompanied Mr. Nash to. Lon- , don in connection with trade and ■ other matters, and on the occasion of '. the Imperial Conference. , MR. A. W. MULLIGAN, C.B.E. Mr. A. W. Mulligan was born in Dunedin 55 years ago, and joined the Public Service in 1899 as a telegraph message boy. After qualifying in several branches of the Post and Telegraph Department- he was appointed iin 1916 as private secretary to the '. Minister of Agriculture. Two years later he was transferred to the position of private secretary to the Minis- , ter of Lands, which position he has • held continuously since that date. ; During his private secretarial career .he has been associated with the late . Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald, the late Hon. iD. H. Guthrie, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, • the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, the Hon. : Sir Alfred Ransom, and the present ! Minister, the Hon. F. Langstone. On • relinquishing that post, Mr. Mulligan L was appointed secretary to the Cen- ■ tennial branch of the Department of - Internal Affairs. MR. S. J. HARRISON, 0.8. E. I Mr. Sidney J. Harrison was born at ■ Marton in 1893 and was educated at the > Thorndon School and at Nelson Coli lege. He enlisted for service overseas t when war broke out in 1914, Dut was t rejected. He again enlisted in 1916 and E was posted to the 15th reinforcement of 1 the New Zealand Field Artillery, being 1 later transferred to the N.C.O. class - for the 18th reinforcement, only to be - discharged as unfit for active service. i He again offered his services and was 2 posted to the Embarkation Office, Wellington, and later became quarter-mas-i ter sergeant on the transport carrying a the 15th reinforcement. He went with i the transport wh^h she sailed from s England, for Karachi, India, with Imt perial details, but was put ashore at 2 DurbEin where he was in hospital for j some time before being returned to,

New Zealand. He was appointed Customs clearing clerk for the Embarkation Officer, but was later transferred to railway transport work and acted as R.T.O. with the rank of regimental ser-geant-major after the death of Captain A. O. Bishop. He received the Meritorious Service Medal from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in 1920. Upon being discharged from the Expeditionary Force Mr. Harrison secured the position of assistant general secretary of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association and was appointed general secretary in 1923, and has continued in that position ever since. In 1929 he was a member of the Royal Commission on the rehabilitation of ex-soldiers from which the Soldiers' Civil reestablishment League originated, he served for some years on the Wellington War Relief Committee, for several years on the War Funds Council, ahd is still a member of the executive committee of that body, and has taken an active interest in the Wellington centre of the Order of St. John, the Toe H movement, and Kennel Club work. Mr. Harrison -was also an executive officer of the Institute of Secretaries for a time. i DR. A. W. HORSLEY, 0.8. E. | Dr. Alice Horsley is the eldest i daughter of the late William Wood- , ward, M.A., Cambridge, and Mrs. Woodward. She graduated from the Otago Medical School in 1900, being the third woman in New Zealand to 1 take the degree of M.8., Ch.B. She _ has practised ever since in Auckland < and is at present an honorary anaes- 1 Uhetist to the Auckland Hospital and i to the Mater Miseriaordiae Hospital. ( She is best known for her devoted 1 work among the "poor of Auckland and 1 specially as medical officer to the Dock . Street Mission. _ MR. SAMUEL SALTZMAN, 0.8. E. ] Mr. Saltzman has been a clothing j manufacturer in Dunedin for 25 years, r and is 57 years of age. He is well- j known for his bequests to, hospitals £ and other charitable institutions in \ Otago during the last three years. He gave £3000 for the erection of a new wing at Waipiata Sanatorium and another £3000 to the South Otago Hospi- -, tal Board for the extension of the hospital service at Balclutha. His largest , bequest was that of £7000 to the St. ] John Ambulance Association in Dunedin, by means of which the associa- , tion was enabled to erect handsome new premises which were urgently re- . quired. The Dunedin Hospital Board ; and the Waitaki Hospital Board bene- : fited by donations of £1275 and £2000 respectively. The Grey Hospital J Board, Greymouth, also received a \ becruest of £1000 from Mr. Saltzman. ] the Dunedin Methodist Central Mis- j sion's rest home was another subject ' of his benefactions, this organisation J receiving a gift of £1250. j MISS B. A. CAMPBELL, 0.8. E. • Miss Campbell, who has been matron ] of the New Plymouth . Hospital for i the last 22 years, is.a daughter of the < late Mr. and Mrs. J. Taylor Campbell, Dunedin. Previous to her appointment to her present position she was first sister and later sub-matron of the i New Plymouth Public Hospital. She 1 is a member of the Nurses and Mid- ] wives Registration Board and has ; been president of the New Plymouth ] branch of the New Zealand Registered : Nurses' Association since its inception 1 12 years ago. i MISS I. M. CORKILL, M.B.E. Miss Corkill was born in New Ply- ] mouth. On completing her training ■.. she was on the staff of the Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs, and about twelve years ago was appointed Red Cross nurse for Taranaki and held that fiosition for eight years. Thereafter or two years she was Health Department nurse in Taranaki. From this position she was appointed matron of the Nurse Maude Association in July, 1936. Miss Corkill is a member of the National Council of Women, repreI senting the Nurse Maude Association. She is also a member of the council of ' the Registered Nurses' Association and is a member of the committee of the , obstetrical branch of the association. MISS N. F. FITZGIBBON, M.B.E. Miss Fitzgibbon has been nursing ad- ! viser to the Plunket Society in Dun- • edin for five years-, and has been associated with the nursing profession for ■ many years. After nursing service ; during . the war she was appointed 1 matron of the Karitane Hospital, Dun--1 edin. She later filled a similar post ; at the Auckland Karitane Home, and f five years ago was appointed nursing adviser to the society, with her headquarters at Dunedin. Miss fitzgibbon recently visited the Toronto Exhit bition, where, at the request of the i authorities, she arranged an exhibition ■■ of Plunket work. * MRS. M. F. GABY, M.B.E. 1 Kfes. Mary Gaby is well known for f her social welfare work in Wellington. I She was v born and educated in Wellings (ton, and in 1913 she joined the Weli lington Soutli Nursing Division of the !. St. John Ambulance Brigade, being aps pointed lady divisional superintendent - in 1923 and lady corps superintendent - in 1929. In recognition of her services I she was appointed a serving sister of i the Order of St. John in 1927 and in i 1936 was made an officer of the Vener- - able Order of St. John. During the t Great War, the 1918 influenza epidemic, r and the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake a I Mrs. Gaby was prominent in offering

first aid and in assisting in nursing generally. She is a member of a number of organisations for social advancement. MISS M. J. MARTIN, M.B.E. Miss Martin has been associated with the nursing profession for thirty years. She was born at Winton, and is the eldest daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. Michael Martin, Dunedin. She was educated at the Convent of Mercy, Gore, and began her nursing career at the Seacliff Mental Hospital hi 1909, training under Sir Truby King, who was medical superintendent of that institution at the time. In 1917 Miss Martin was promoted to assistant matron at Seacliff and, three years later, she was appointed matron of Tokanui Mental Hospital, Te Awamutu. She was promoted to her present position as matron at Sunnyside in 1925. MISS C. McKENNY, M.B.E. Miss McKenny was trained in the Wellington Public Hospital. She then went to the Wanganui Public Hospital as matron, a position which she held for more than twenty years. During the Great War she was for a time in the hospital ship Maheno. At the conclusion of her hospital service Miss McKenny represented the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association at the international nurses' congress in Montreal in 1929 and the Dominion at the first international hospital conference in Atlantic City in the same year. On returning to the Dominion she gave her service to the Registered Nurses' Association. She is president of the Manawatu branch and a member of the executive council. She became New Zealand president in 1937. Miss McKenny has been a member of the Wairarapa Hospital Board for the past eight years. MISS J. A. MOORE, M.B.E. Miss Moore was trained in nursing at Dunedin, and was among the first fifty nurses who left New Zealand during the Great War. Shortly after her return she was appointed; matron of the Hamilton Hospital. In 1924; she was appointed nurse instructor for the Department of Health and in 1926 was sent by the Department to Bedford College, England, where she took a post-graduate course in public health nursing and hospital administration. GROUP-CAPTAIN COCHRANE, C.B.E. Group-Captain Cochrane is the third and youngest son of Baron Cochrane. He is 43 years of age. He has had a distinguished career. He studied at the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth before being posted in the Royal Navy as a sub-lieutenant in

1915. Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Royal Naval Air Service as flight sub-lieutenant, later obtaining a permanent commission as flight-lieutenant in the R.A.F. He served throughout the war, and in 1925 was promoted to the rank of squadronleader. Part of his war service was with the dirigible section. After the war he was stationed for varying periods in Egypt, Palestine, Irak, and Aden./ During 1925-26 he attended a course at the staff college, and in 1929 he was placed in command /Of the No. 8 Bomber Squadron. After three years on staff duties he studied for a year at the Imperial Defence College, afterwards being attached to the Headquarters Inland Area of the Air Defence of Great Britain. He came to New Zealand in November, 1936, to report on the problem of air defence, his rank then being WingCommander. On April 1, 1937, he was appointed Chief of the Air Staff in New Zealand and in August of the same year he was promoted GroupCaptain. His service in New Zealand was to last for two years from the beginning of 1937. MAJOR S. H. CRUMP, 0.8. E. Major Crump, who is 49 years of age, was on active service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the Great War and was attached to General Headquarters from the New Zealand Army Service Corps in September, 1919. His war service included the position of requisitioning officer for the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, supply officer for the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, officer in charge of the New Zealand Army Service Corps in Egypt, senior supply officer to the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Divisions. After the war he was officer in charge of the Army Service Corps at General Headquarters, Assistant Quartermaster-General, and is at present Quartermaster-General and Director of Supplies and Transport. STAFF-SERGT. G. F. MacCULLOCH. Staff-Sergeant G. F. MacCulloch was born in 1902, at Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. He enlisted in the Grenadier Guards on June 14, 1920, and served until November 14, 1925, attaining the rank of sergeant. He joined the New Zealand Permanent Staff on October 22, 1926, with the rank of staff-sergeant, and was stationed in Christchurch until July 3, 1933, when he was transferred to Trentham Camp, where he is still serving as R.S.M. of the Army School of Instruction. His present rank is Warrant Officer, Class I (Staff-Sergeant Major). CHIEF P.O. A. V. STYLES, 0.8. E. I Chief Petty Officer Writer Styles, I who was born in Taranaki, entered I the New Zealand naval service when it

was constituted, and has served in all ships of the squadron during the past 17 years, spending most of his time at sea. He was selected to join the staff of the Navy Office for personal duties in May, 1937, showing particular aptitude for this work. He is the first representative of the lower deck in the New Zealand Navy to receive this honour.