KING’S BIRTHDAY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1930, Page 2

KING’S BIRTHDAY

MR WILFORD KNIGHTED

(By Telegraph-Trees Association).

AUCKLAND, June 2

The Governor-General has forwarded the following- message for submission to tlie King on tlie occasion o His Majesty’s birthday: “I beg t tender to Your Majesty the loyal and most -respectful good wishes of tin Government and people of New Zealand on the occasion of Your Majesty's birthday, and a renewed assurance of unfailing devotion to the throne o' Your Majesty’s subjects in this Dominion. We rejoice in the tidings o! your improved health.”

An announcement -has been issued bv th° Governor-General to the effect that the King has been graciously pleased on the occasion of lii-s birthday to confer the following honours upon the gentlemen named below: —

Knir-M C n ni"’andcr of He Most D s tingnished Order of St Miehne 1 and St. George (K.C.Af.G.) —Thomas Meson Wilford, K.C., High Commissioner for N >\v Zealand in I ondnn K-vn-bt Rnnlinjoj* —Alfred Seymour Bankart,, M.8.K., of Auckland.

EViii-no-on of the Most, Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St George (C.M.G.) —Robert Albert An derson. of Invercargill ; also Paul Desire Nestor Versehaffelt, Public Service Commissioner, Wellington.

HOMELAND RECIPIENNTS

(Official Wireless.)

ID'GBV. June 2

The- list of Im-noui's conferred upon the occasion of the King's birthday

Peerages are conferred upon Noel Buxton, Minister of Agriculture: Henry Furniss, formerly Principal of Rusk'll College, Oxford, for serveee to Education, and Sir Esme Howard, lately Ambassador to the United States.

Baronetcies are conferred upon S'r Leonard Dunning. Inspector of Constabulary; Basil Mott, Past President of tlie Institution of Civil Engineers, and Frederick Roycfc, founder and director of Rolls Royce Ltd.

Rppjpients of Knighthoods include: Major Thomas Crosier, Chief Inspector Delf Gillies, Chief Plastic Surgeon. Ministry,of Pensions for valuable services in treatment of facial disfigurement, and Henrv Lytton, famous for his parts in Gilbert and Sullivan onera.

Particularly notable are the honours conferred upon ' Sir John Simon, chairman of the Indian Statutory Commissioner, who is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of Star of India, and upon Miss Amy Johnson, who is appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (in recognition of her outstanding flight to Australia). Other honours include the following :

Order of British Knights Grand Cross: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reger Keys, who commanded operations against Zeebrugge in 1918, and Admiral Sir Edwin Alexander Sinclair, principal naval aide-de-camp to the King. Knight Commanders: AUce-Admiral David Anderson, Surgeon Vice-Ad-miral Arthur Caskell, Lieut.-General Alexander AYardrop, Indian Army; Lieut-General Charles Godwin. Commander Peshawar District, India, and Air Vice-Marshal Munro.

Companion of the said Order: Robert Cragie, counsellor Foreign Office, for services in connection with the Naval Conference. Order of Merit: Dr. Samuel Alexander, in recognition of his eminent -wsition -as British philosopher, Dr Montague James, in recognition of liis contribution to- medieaval learning, and Dr George Trevelyan, Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University.

Order of St, Michael and St. George: Knights Grand Cross; Sir Herbert Stanley, Governor of Ceylon, and Sir AVilliam Erskine, Amassador at AAbarsaw.

Knights Commanders: Henry Chilton, Minister to the Holy See; Herbert Malkin, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Office, and Claude Russell Minister at Berne.

Companion of the said Order: Reginald Leigh, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

Imperial Order of the Crown (A Tndia: Lady Birdwood, wife of Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Com-mnnder-in-Chief of Tndia.

Victoria Order; Knights Grand Cross; Baron Buckmaster, and Lieut General Sir William Pulteney.

Knight Commander; S:r Herbert Monte-ornery. Assistant I nder-Secre-tarv Foreign Office.

LONDON. -Tune 3. Included in the inter-State honours list are the following:—

Knights Bachelor:—Edward Henry Macartney (Agent General for Queensland).

John Walters Tvirwan (President of the Legislative Council of "Western Australia). C M.G.—W. J. Call (Under-Secret-ary to Home Secretary's Department Queensland); R. T.. Parker, a well known solicitor of Launceston; C.B, E. G. L. Cressy, accountant, Launceston. 1.5.0. — C A. Bernav.s (clerk of Queensland Parliament). Gillies is a New Zealander. Knights Bachelor:—Hairy John Bar-, Hay (Secretary of the Athletic Assoc-

iaton); Bennett (member of the House of Commons for Cardiff); Ben Turner was promoted to C.B.C.von retirement from the Ministry of Mines.

~ Orlehar was awarded a bar to his Air Force Cross.

A USTR ALI AN RFC IPIENTS. SYDNEY, June 2. Birthday honours for New South Wales are:—» Knight Bachelor: Alexander Gordon, former Judge of the Supreme Court. C.8.F,: AV-. G. Layton, Town Clerk of the City of Sydney; Julian Ashton artist. A1.8.E.: Mrs Ellen Fcaliy. HONOUR FOR MISS JOHNSON. LONDON, June 3. There are speculations whether Miss Johnson’s C'.B.E. may not he a prelude to a further honour when she returns. Critics have already emphasised that the flight merits the Air Force Cross. It will lie recalled that Hinkler’s cross was not given until he-returned, when the Prince of AY .ales bestowed it on he half of the King. It would he most popular if Miss Johnson’s return were similarly celebrated. The present honour in nowise prevents a later presentation of the Cross.