NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 161, 6 January 1912, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

COUONEL ROBIN, C.8., CLHfiyj^jH By Telegraph—Press A-soclaM6m->.sfSra| Wellington, Last Colonel A. W. Robin, C.8., General of the New Zealand Forces, been made a Companion of the Order of <lg||l St. Michael and St. George, not Cornell mander, which would can.v a Kni#ht&TJf| hood with it The Press cable ing this informutiontwas *ent on M<m>tigfcJ| day, but appears to have been lost in*':s|| transmission, the Auckland Star receiving it. , -'^Jl Colonel A. W. Robin, who is at present Adjutant-Genera! to the Xew Zealand forces, is a native of Dunedin. He watf educated at the Otago Boys' High, "t'ifl School, and was engaged in business in' '""-'J Dunedin until 1890. He was captain of'' M the Otago Hussars, and he commanded" ?)'•'% the mounted troops at the Record Rjeign"'' '',£; celebrations in London an 1897. 'He was in command of the First Contingent Bient.,, i-'Ji irom Xew Zealand to South Africa dur- &';. ing the Boer war. After his return from V $ South Africa Colonel Robin was ap- " *V< pointed to the command of the Otago \> : s military district. On the formation" of '.'** the Council of Defence in lfM)7, he was -> l <vl appointed as the first military iwsmiber ■':*'•; with the status of Chief of the General -■* "f Staff. .Since the appointment of General; ■;;*' Godley as commandant, Colonel has occupied the post of AdjutantGeneral. He was made 0.8. in ijjoo. - ' 7 I ■ ' ''f;