MILITARY HONORS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1918, Page 3

MILITARY HONORS.

rAUSTRALIAN &, N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION tfc REUTER.] | Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) LONDON, Jan. 7. Th e Gazette continues the list of recipients of various grades of the Order of the British Empire for war services. It is headed by the Dames Grand Cross, conferred on Queen Alexandra. Seven Knights of Grand Cross include Sir Arthur Lee, Director of Food Production. Five Dames Grand ICross include j Viscountess Northcliffe. ! Sixty-eight Knight Commanders in- j elude Roderick Jones, managing direct- i or of Router’s. j The Commanders include Colonel G. J Smith of the New Zealand Force. Officers of the Order include A. McDonald, New Zealand Chaplin; Major Gribbon. New Zealand Medical Corps ; Captain F. Mcpherson, ,New Zealand command depot; Major T. Wilson New Zealand embarkation officer. Members of the Order include Misses V. C. Bell, A. M. Herbert, A. J. Pearce, F. Stribkey, J. C. Watson, Mesdames A. V. Goodchild, E. W. Stewart, of New Zealand "Voluntary Aid Detachments.

ANNOUNCEMENT DELAYED. (Renter’s Telegrams.) Ecec vod this day at. 2.36 p.m.,) LONDON, Jan. 7. In order to meet the convenience of the Dominions and (Monies in view of the present slowness of communications it has boon arranged to defer until a later Mate, probably' Ist March the notification of lists of appointments to the order of the British Empire, in respect to services in or for the Dominions and Colonies.