TWO NEW KNIGHTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 860, 2 January 1930, Page 8

TWO NEW KNIGHTS

DOMINION'S HONOURS LIST G.C.M.G. FOR SIR JOSEPH The New Year Honours List for 1930 is not a large one. The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, is to be made .a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and SL George. Two new Knights are to be created in New Zealand, the Chief Justice, the Hon. Michael Myers, and the Attorney-General, the Hon. T. K. Sidey. His Excellency the Governor. General has announced that his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer upon the gentlemen named the following honours:— G.C.M.G. The Right Honourable Sir Joseph George Ward, Bart., K.C.M.G., M.P., Prime Minister. K.C.M.G. The Honourable Michael Myers, K.C., Chief Justice. KNIGHT BACHELOR The Honourable Thomas Kay Sidey, M.L.C., Attorney-General. C-.M.G. Mr. Edward William Kane, Clerk 0 { Parliaments; formerly Clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr. Robert Parker, organist, of Well, ington, for services to music. C.B.E. Mr. Arthur Albert Luckham, Resident Commissioner of Niue Island. SIR JOSEPH WARD Sir Joseph Ward, G.C.M.G., adds another honour to a notable list ot distinctions, marking an illustrious career. He was made K.C.M.G. during the visit of the present King and. Queen to New Zealand in 1901. His membership of the Privy Council dates from 1907 and his baronetcy from 1911. He is an honorary LL.D. both of Edinburgh anil of London. SIR MICHAEL MYERS Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice o! New Zealand, was born at Motueka tu 1873, and was a soil of the founder of the firm of J. Myers and Company. He was educated at Thorndon School, Wellington, where at the age of 12 he distinguished himself by winning a primary Education Board scholarship. This was only the first of many scholarships and honours that fell to him during his student days. In 1892 /T Michael joined the staff of the legal firm of Bell, Gully and Izard, and seven years later he became a partner in that firm with which he continued until 1922, when he was made a King’s Counsel. He was appointed Chief Justice in February lasL SIR THOMAS SIDEY Sir Thomas Sidey, Attorney-General, was born In Caversliam in 1563, and received his education at the Otago Boys’ High School and Otago University. He was admitted to the Bar at the age of 20, and entered Parliament when he was elected for South Dunedin in 1901 In the Liberal interests. After 27 years in the House he retired in 1928 and was subsequently appointed Attorney-General and made leader of the Legislative Council. Sir Thomas became very widely known, as the persistent and ultimately successful advocate of daylight saving. MR. E. W. KANE, C.M.G. Mr. E. W. Kane joined the Parliamentary Staff as a Committee Clerk in ISS6 and has remained attached to the Legislative Department ever since. Mr. Kane has successively served as Committee Clerk, Reader and Clerk of Bills, Second Clerk-Assistant, ClerkAssistant, and, for the last nine years, has held the onerous position of Clerk of the House of Representatives. Upon the recent death of Mr. A. F. Lowe, C.M.G., Mr. Kane was appointed Clerk Of Parliaments and Clerk of the Legislative Council. This office also carries with it the position of Examiner of Standing Orders on Private Bills. There are only two present members of the Legislature, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Stout, and the Hon. Sir Edwin Mitchelson, both of the Legislative Council, who were members of the House of Representatives when Mr. Kane joined the staff. MR. ROBERT PARKER, C.M.G. Reaching the age of S 3 Mr. Robert Parker is today one of the notable personalities of musical circles in Wellington. In 1878 he was appointed organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s pro-Cathedral, 'Wellington, and has remained in that position ever since. For 40 years he w T as Wellington’s leading choral conductor. It was under his baton that most of the great oratorios were originally sung in. Wellington. MR. LUCKHAM, C.B.E. Mr. A. A. Luckham, an English officer of the Third Dragoon Guards who resigned from his regiment and came to New Zealand shortly before the outbreak of the Great War, became known to thousands of New Zealanders as adjutant of Trentham camp throughout the war. In 1920 Mr. Luckham was appointed Resident Commissioner at Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, and for the past seven years he has held a similar position at Niue Island.