NEW YEAR'S HONOURS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2678, 3 January 1924, Page 3

NEW YEAR'S HONOURS.

NEW ZEALANDERS KNIGHTED.

DR. UNDO FERGUSON AND MR ARTHUR MYERS.

London, December 31st. The New Year’s honours list includes Knighthoods for Dr. Undo Ferguson, Dean of Medical Faculty of Otago University. Air Arthur Myers, ex-Afinister, of New Zealand.

Sir Henry Undo Ferguson has been an eve specialist in Dunedin for a generation and of recent years he has been Dean of the Medical Faculty of Otago University. Last year, lie was New Zealand president of the British Aledical Association, and was also chairman of the New Zealand Medical Board which registers and controls the members of the medical profession in the Dominion. lie is also a member of the New Zealand Board of Health. Daring the war period, when there was a great scarcity of medical men, owing to the calls of the Expedition - ary Force, he rendered signnl national service in the re-arrangement of the medical school and its functions. He holds the degree of ALA., M.D., (Dublin), and F.R.C.R. (Ireland).

Sir Arthur Myers was horn in Ballarat, Australia, in 1867. and educated at AVellington College. He has been director of the New Zealand Insurance Co. and the Auckland Gas Co., a justice of the peace, a prominent footballer, swimmer, and oarsman, and Mayor of Auckland. He was elected member of Parliament for Auckland Fast in .Time 1910. He. was. Minister - of' Finance, Minister of Railways, and Minister of Defence in the Afaekenzie Ministry in 1912, from March to July, and was Afinistor of ABmitions, Supplies, and Customs in the National Ministry (1915-19).