NEW YEAR HONOURS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS

PEERAGE FOR SIR E. RUTHERFORD A LENGTHY LIST (United Pres* Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Ist January. New Year Honours include four peerages conferred upon:— Sir John Hindley, commercial adviser of' the Mines Department. Sir Ernest Lamb, former member of Parliament and member of the Corporation of the City of London. Sir William Plender, past-president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, who presided over many committees and royal commissions on commercial and financial questions. sir Ernest Rutherford, the well-known physicist authority on radio activity and a former president of the Royal Society. PRIVY COUNCILLORS Three new Privy Councillors are:— Thomas Kennedy, Chief Labour Whip. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Transport. Sir George Perley, former Canadian J High Commissioner, and now Minister without portfolio in the Canadian Government. BARONETS New Baronets are:— Sir John Bradford, president of the Royal College of Physicians. Mr Ernest Debenham, director of Lloyd’s Bank. Sir Richard Gregory, Astronomer. Sir George May, member of the Council of Institute of Actuaries. Mr George Roberts, who under the pseudonym of “Audax” gave £IOO,000 to hospitals as a thanksgiving offer for the recovery of His Majesty, the King. ORDER OF MERIT Admiral Sir Charles Madden and Philip Sheer receive the Order of Merit; the former for distinguished services in peace and war, and the latter in recognition of his position as a painter and teacher in the art world. NEW KNIGHTS New Knights include: Norman Angell, the writer; William Goodchild, secretary of the British delegation of the Reparations Commission; Dr. Graham Little, member of Parliament for London University; John McEwan, principal of the Royal Academy of Music; Conrad Naef. Accountant-General of the Navy; David Owen, general manager of the Port of London Authority; Hugh Robertson, founder of Glasgow Orphans’ Choir; Professor Rothenstein, principal of the Royal College of Art; James Sexton, Labour member of Parliament;. Robert Young, chairman of the Commit--tees of the House of Commons; and Colonel Weston Jarvis, chairman of the Council of the Royal Empire Society. In the general list there are over 20 other knighthoods for the Dominions, India, and the Colonies, etc. • ’ ’ NEW zealand"recipients TWO KNIGHTHOODS - i (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. 7 The official list of conferred; upon New Zealanders was issued froth Government House, Wellington as follows : ' ; . KNIGHT BACHELOR Aruthur Dudley Dobson, Christchurch. Cecil Leys Auckland. C.MIG. (Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George) George Alexander Troup, Mayor of Wellington • - Alexander Crabb, secretary of the High Commissioner’s Department, London. C.B.E. (Commander Civil Division of tie Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) William Waddell, superintendent of the State Advances Department, Wellington.

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(Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Malictoa Taumafili, Western Samoa