BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 530, 4 January 1913, Page 5

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

NEW ZEALANDERS DECO-

KATED.

By TelcsrapJi.-Press Association.— CopyriitfU

• London, Wednesday.

Tbe New, Year honours conferred by the King include the following : PEERAGES. Sir George Sydenam Carke, Governor of Bombay. '

Sir George Kemp, ex-M.P., managing director of ■ Messrs Kelaall and Kemp, flannel manufacturers. BARON/ETCIES., / Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Scott. Mr Thomas Granam Jackeon, R.A., architect.

K.C.M.G. Sir Edward Morris, Kt , Premier of Newfoundland. '

Sir James Pliny Whitney, Kt., Premier of Ontario.

KNIGHTS BACHELOR.

Mr Walter C. Buchanan, M.P. for -WairaraDa, New Zealand. Dr Robert Philip, Edinburgh, leader of the crusade againsst consumption. Mr A- I'- Liberty, chairman of Liberty and Co., Ltd:, and other indue trial enterprises connected with the applied and decorative arts. Mr Francis Darwin, third son of the late Charles Darwin, an Hon. Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and an ex-president of the British Association. C.M.G. Mr Leonard Stowe. Clerk of New Zealand Parliaments, is created a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. K.C.B. Sir John Anderson, Permanent Un-der-Secretary of State for the Colonies. . SIR WALTER KT. Mr Walter C. Buchanan, M.P. for Wairarapa, is one of the oldest figures in the political arena of New Zealand to-day, both in years and in Parliamentary experience. Borri in Argylshire in 1838. he set out to Australia in search of fortune at the age of 18, and six years later came across to the island colony and ' took up a leasehold afrm in Canterbury. He remained in the South Island, experiencing his ■*ull share of the ups and downs and hardships of pioneer life, till 1871, when be migrated north to the district with which he has Jbeen So closely identified ever eince.purchasirig the Tupurupuru station near Masterton, and by his energy and capabilities winning proßpeiity fpr himself, and helping to advance the district. Mir Buchanan took a particularly keen interest in the frozen meat industry visiting England and America to study the latest developments in machinery connected with' freezing operations, and Bubsquently becoming one of the founders of the Wenington Meat Export Company. Mr Buchanan took ah early interest in local and national politics, in the former field figuring for years as a member of tbe South Wairarapa County Council and an a member of the Wellington Education BoarJ. He entered the broader plane of politics in 1881, when he was returned- as .member for South Wairarapa, and Some years later he became M.H.R. for Wairarapa, which constituency he has continued to represent with but one break of three years As a public-spirited man, the new knight is well and favourably known in his own district, his boUn. ties often being as unostentatious as they are liberal. His donation of £6OOO fur the erection of a hospital at Greytown for incurables is still fresh in the public mind, while he has built a church at Gladstone out of his own pocket. When the* Massey Ministry was formed it was recognised that none had better right to a seat id the new Cabinet than the member for Wairarapa,but Mr Buchanan generously forewent the honour in favour of younger blood, though he carries his seventy-four years lightly and vigorously. At the end of the session be decided to go for a trip to the Old Country, and is at the present time on the high seas.

MR LEONARD STQWE. C.MG. Mr Leonard Stwwe, who succeeded Major Campbell as clerk of parliaments in 1889. is a native of Buckinghamshire, and received iris education at lffley and Schrols. He arrived as a young man in New Zealand by the ship; Lady Alice, and settled in Nelson. After being secretary to Mr Thomas Garter and to mour, Superintendent of Marlborough Provrncial Councilin 1864, and a year later clerk to theM Legislative Council, which position he stilhhajds. In 1871 hj« married the daughter of Dr Greenwood, formerly Sergeant-at-Arma in the ißouse of Representatives.