THE NEW YEAR HONORS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3, 3 January 1914, Page 5

THE NEW YEAR HONORS.

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey, P.C., is a native of * Londonderry, where he was born in 1857. He arrived in New Zealand in 1870, joining his parents at Auckland, where they had been settled for some years. By .1890 he was taking a prominent part in farming affairs and the following year he became president of the Auckland A. and P. Association. In 1893 he was elected president of the New Zealand National Association and made his entry into Parliament as member for Waitemata, in 1894. Throe years later , he was elected for the Franklin seat and has represented that constituency ever since. From .1896 to 1903 he acted as Whip for the Conservative Opposition and in the latter year became leader of the party. On July 10th, 1912, he became Prime Minister on the defeat of the Mackenzie Government. There are only two other Privy Councillors in the Dominion—the Right IJon. Sir Joseph Ward (1907) and the Right Hon. Sir Joshua .Williams (1913).

Sir Charles Bowen, K.C.M.G., is tlje • Speaker of the Legislative Council. He was born in 1830 and arrived in New Zealand in 1850 with the first party of Canterbury settlers, aiding in the formation of the settlement. From 1853 to 1864 he was a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council, and for ten years afterwards was Resident Magistrate at Christchurch. In 1874 he, was called to the Upper House and became Minister of Justice in the Vogel Ministry. The following year ho resigned and was returned to the Lower House as member for Kaiapoi, occupying the seat for three Parliaments. He held portfolios in the Pollen Ministry, the second Vogel Ministiy and the Atkinson Ministry. Sir Charles was the author of the Fiducation Act of 18

He was appointed a life member of the Legislative Council in 1891 and has been Speaker since July, 1905. He was created a Knight Bach for in 1910.

Prdfessor John Shand, C.M.G.. of Dunedin, was born in 1831. He was mathematical master of the Ayr and Edinburgh Academies and came out to New Zealand in 1871 to take.up an appointment as Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Otago University.' In 1880 the work was divided and he took the Chair of Natural Philosophy, which he has retained ever since. In 1889 he was made an honorary LI.D. of Aberdeen. He was a member of tho Boy til Commission on the New Zealand 1 Diversity in 1877-79 and lias always taken a prominent part in educational aifairs, being on the Otago Education Board (several times chairman), the Otago .University Council, and the S'«".nte .of the New Zealand University,