NEW YEAR HONOURS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 242, 3 January 1928, Page 16

NEW YEAR HONOURS

By Cable.—Press Association.——Copyright.

LONDON, Sunday. The list of New Year honours indues the following:— BARONS Mr. George Gibbs, Conservative member of the House of Commons for West Mristol and a Government Whip. Sir Frederick Lugard, a former Governor of Hongkong and Nigeria and now the British member of the Permanent Mandates Commission. G.C.M.G. Hon. Philip Street, Chief Justice of New South Wales. Sir Edward Grigg, Governor of Kenya Colony. BARONET Mr. James Gomer Berry, the newspaper proprietor. G.C.B. General Sir Alexander Godley. K.C.V.O. Sir Edward Elgar, the musical com poser. KNIGHT BACHELOR Mr. John Longstaff, the well-knowD artist. Mr. Henry Scott, Attorney-General of Fiji. Mr. Edward German, the musical com poser.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. Mr. G. A. Gibbs was born in 1873, educated at Eton and Oxford. He has represented Bristol West in the House of Commons since 1906. He is Treasurer of his Majesty’s Household. Sir Frederick Lugard was born in 1858 He was at Sandhurst, and served in the Afghan War, 1879, the Sudan, 1885, and in other African campaigns. He was High Commissioner for Northern Nigeria, 19001906, and Governor of Hongkong, 1907-12, and Governor-General of Nigeria, 1914-19. Since 1922 he has been a member of the Mandates Commission. The Hon. Philip Whistler Street was born in 1863. He was educated at Sydney and called to the Bar in ISB6. He was appointed a Judge in 1907, and Chief Justice in 1925. Sir Edward Grigg was born in 1879. He was at Winchester and Oxford and joind “The Times” in 1903. He was military secretary to the Prince of Wales m 1919, while he was in Australia and New Zealand. He was then private secretary to Mr. Lloyd George. In 1925 he was appointed Governor of Kenya. He married Miss Joan Poynder, only daughter of Lord Islington, a former Governor-General of New Zealand, in 1923.

Mr. James Gomer Berry is one of the well-known brothers who are newspaper proprietors. He is deputy-chairman of Allied Newspapers, Limited. He is a member of the syndicate which recently bought the London “Daily Telegraph.” General Sir Alexander Godlev was born in 1867. He entered the Army in 1886 and saw' service in Africa, and was at the siege of Mafeking. He was G.O.C. tLe New Zealand Forces, 1910-14. He served through the war at Gallipoli and elsew’here, and later commanded on the Rhine.

Mr. John Longstaff is president of the Society of Australian Artists. He studied at the Melbourne Art School, and later at Paris He exhibited in the Salon and the Royal Academy. Many of his pictures are in the Melbourne and Sydney Gal-

Mr. Henry Milne Scott was born in Levuka in 1876, and called to the Fiji Bar

in 1899. He has been Attorney-General of Fiji on several occasions. He took silk in 1912. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1908. Sir Edward Elgar is the leading British composer of the day, and he has penned

some of the finest music of our time. He was born in 1857, and became well known for hi 3 setting of Cardinal Newman's poem, “The Dream of Gerontius.” Mr. Edward German has written much delightful music. He has composed orchestral suites, music to Shakespeare’s plays, to operas, and other works, including the Coronation March for the coronation of King George in 1911, and many songs.

NEW ZEALAND LIST Press Association. WELLINGTON, Monday. His Excellency the Governor-Gene-ral has announced that on the occasion o£ the New Year, his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer upon the gentlemen named the following honours: KNIGHT BACHELOR The Hon. Thomas Walter Stringer, K.C., lately a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. C.M.G. Mr. George Craig, Comptroller of Customs in New Zealand. Mr. Albert Fuller Ellis, New Zealand Commissioner on the British Phosphate Commission. The elevation of Sir Thomas Waiter Stringer is the crowning reward for a life of distinguished service at the Bench and Bar, Sir Thomas having been admitted to the Bar in 1897, and later elevated to the Supreme Court Bench. He was a New Zealander, born in Christchurch in 1855 He spent his early youth in the south and at the completion of his legal training became a partner in the firm of Duncan, Cotterill and Stringer, of Christchurch. For a time he was Crown Solicitor in the southern city, and later became a K.C. In 1914 he was appointed to preside over the Arbitration Court, and later was elevated to the Supreme Court Bench, a position which he occupied unth he retired shortly after his 72nd birthdav on November 4 of last year. For six years he had charge of the Auckland Judicial district, and he presided over the Prisons Board and the War Pensions Appeal Board.

Mr G. Craig, C.M.G., LL.M., is one of the most wiaely-known among the heads ?^v>, G ? v< ;r nn:le * de P a rtments, and as comptroller of Customs his administration from head office at Wellington is favourably known in business and commercial circles at the capital. He wa** educated in Otago, but continued his studies in Wellington, joining the Customs department as a cadet at Timaru in 1891. From this modest position. Mr Craig rose through the various stages of fcis office till he filled the position of as-

W t ß n \?o?,S troller > and in 1923 . when Mr. Itfaster^of Eaehelor of Laws 2SS"; Mr. i Ub ? rt Full er Ellis, C.M.G is a Queenslander by birth but * this Dominion in his infancy, receiving hi? ?he C Sge° n oJ n i9 th L C t ■ At ir® J t G 19 he ™ as appointed analvst on< l on com Pany which was wo?k. to>uS h in S^sS te dep ° s * ts on the Phoenix Group in the central Pacific. In 1911 Mr S. l ivo Was / p -E ointed local director for Australia and New Zealand of the London company working Ocean and nSuSS Islands, and he continued to occupy that ?et ■ E *J} osphate Commission was the war, the British, Australian and New Zealand Governments bought out the company’s interests in Nauru and Ocean Islands, and Mr. Film was chosen to represent New Zealand on the British Phosphate Commission