Service to Empire and Humanity

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 11

Service to Empire and Humanity

ROYAL RECOGNITION REVIEW OF AWARDS British TTtreJcss.— Copyright. LONDON, Friday. The birthday honours list included an unusually large number of awards to women for philanthropic work. Others honoured include prominent figures in politics, while recognition is given to several for services in aviation and for work in Egypt, the Sudan and China. A BY-ELECTION The elevation of Sir Davison Dalziel to the peerage will necessitate a byelection in the Brixton division of one of London's boroughs which he represents in Parliament. At the general election Lord Dalziel. a Conservative, had a very large majority over the Labour and Liberal candidates. In 1923 Lord Dalziel lost to a Liberal. A three-cornered contest is expected on this occasion. The only addition to the Order of Companions of Honour announced is that of the Rev. J. P. Jones, an eminent Congregationalist divine. SERVICES IN CHINA Of officials in China who are honoured the most notable are Mr. Owen St. Clair O’Malley, who negotiated with Mr. Eugene Chen at Hankow, Mr. John Brennan, aeting-Consul-General at Canton, and Mr. Eric Teiehman, of the legation at Peking, all of whom become commanders of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Mr. Alwyne Ogden, acting-consul at Kiukiang, and Mr. William Turner, actingconsul at Peking, who become officers of the British Empire Order. Three officers of the steamship Sunning are honoured for their conspicuous ability and courage in recovering their vessel which had been captured by pirates off the coast of China in November, 1926. Egyptian honours include the promotion of Major-General Spinks, In-spector-General of the Egyptian Armv. acting-Sirdar, to be K.B.E. A large number of other honours are conferred on officials in the Egyptian and Sudan service. DISTINGUISHED AIRMEN Lieutenant Mclntyre, of the Australian Air Force, received a bar to his Royal Air Force Cross for his recent seaplane high! from Melbourne to the Solomon Islands and back, and the Royal Air Force Cross is given to Flight-Lieutenants Bertram Leete and Thomas Stack in recognition of their recent flight from London to Delhi in a de Haviland Moth airplane.—A. and N.Z.