ORDER OF THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1918, Page 2

ORDER OF THE EMPIRE.

| AX IKVESTHTCEE BY LOED ■'"■; LIVERPOOL. 1 "■"■.'' '., 'Wellington, Sept. 19 lord Liverpool tej-B'ay held an investiture of the Order'df.'the Empire,: the following-being' recipients of badges': ' -"Members of Fourth ('Class,' or" officers of the' Order:"Mr J: H. -Gunson (Mayor of Auckland )y Mrs. "Gunspa (Mayoress)*. ■■ ■■'„.,,, Mem hers of the Fifth Class, orniembers of'■the-Order: V. J. Lamer, (member of I lib Executive of the Auckland: Patriotic Association, and chairman of the. Claims Hoard of the Association), H. J..D. Eob(ertson (Hon. Secretary of the joint comImjttce of tl'ie British Bed Cross Society and the Order of St. John), Douglas W. Jack (of Whangarei), Arthur E. Manning (Hamilton), Miss Edith Fenton (Sanatorium,' Rotorua), Mrs Margaret Harding (Mangawhare, Dargavilie), Mrs Mary H. Kirkpa trick (Kawakawa). The badge of the Fourth Class was conferred on Miss Mary Downie Stewart, of Dunedin, who is on a visit here. The emblem of the Fifth Class was also handed to a representative of Mr 0. S. Ellis, of .. Hamil- , ton, who died since the decoration, was ' conferred. The Order conferred on Mrs . L. Blackwood (nee Spedding) will be ' forwarded to the Governor-General of Canada. Mrs Blackwood being now a 1 resident there. All the recipients have been prominent in patriotic work. ' His Excellency also presented two medals to the next of kin of two soldier 3 of the New Zealand Expeditionary "Forces, the soldiers having died since the medals were awarded. The Military ■Cross was handed to Mrs J. Hally (Cambridge), mother of the late 2nd-Lieut. C. ; Hally. The D.C.M. was handed to Mrs S. Bullock (Auckland) mother of the late Corporal W. W. Bullock.