BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1938, Page 7

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

THE NEW ZEALAND LIST

TV|o NEW KNIGHTHOODS. RECOGNITION OF SERVICES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 8. His Excellency, the Governor-Gen-eral, has announced that his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased, on. the occasion of the celebration of his brithday, to confer the following honours in recognition of services rendered to the Dominion:— CIVIL DIVISION. Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (K.8.E.): Professor Thomas Hill Easterfield. Nelson. Knight Bachelor: Albert Fuller Ellis. C.M.G., Auckland. Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.): Richard Oliver Gross, Auckland. John Wood, Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department. Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C. 8. William Sanderson La Trobe, formerly Superintendent of Technical Education, Wellington. s Mrs Annie Elizabeth Kelly, artist, Christchurch. Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. James Wallace, chairman of the Otago Education Board, Dunedin. Mrs Sadie MacDonald, Wellington. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.): Miss Katharina Margarita Finnane, matron of Porirua Mental Hospital. Miss Elsie Euphemia Andrews, Fitzroy, New Plymouth. Miss Robina Thomson Cameron, district health nurse, Rotorua. 'John Henry O’Donnell, formerly Assistant Under-Secretary of the Lands and Survey Department. John Connell Brown, Westport. MILITARY DIVISION. Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. Major Eric Freeman Clayton-Greene, Officer Commanding the 2nd Medium Battery, New Zealand Artillery (Territorial Force), Hamilton. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.): Paymaster-Lieutenant Herbert Russell Sleeman, R.N., Assistant Naval Secretary, Wellington. Warrant-Officer William 1 Stanley Simpson, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Christchurch. Medal of the Order of the British Empire ’(Civil Division): Staff Sergeant-Major Edward James Barwell, senior orderly at Government House.

Sir Thomas Easterfield, former director of the Cawthron Institute, was born at Doncaster, Yorkshire. He was educated at the local Grammar School and at the Universities of Leeds, Cambridge, Zurich and Wurzburg. After holding positions at Cambridge, in 1899 Sir Thomas Easterfield was selected to occupy the Chair of Chemistry at the newly-established Victoria College, Wellington, a position he held until 1920, when, upon the establishment of the Cawthron Institute he was appointed Director. He is possessed of wide scientific interests.

Sir Albert Ellis, Auckland, New Zealand Commissioner on the British Phosphate Commission was the discoverer of the rich phosphate deposits on Nauru Island. He has also taken an active part in organising the working of them and making available supplies of essential material for the fertiliser industry. BRITISH AWARDS TWO VISCOUNTS APPOINTED (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 8. The Birthday Honours include two new Viscounts, two Barons, one new Privy Councillor, and six Baronets. The principal awards are: — Viscounts: Lord Stonehaven, Lord Weir. Barons: Sir Josiah Stamp, Vivian Hugh Smith. Privy Councillor: Sir Donald Somervell. Baronet: Sir Archibald Weigall. Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, Lord Harlech. Knight Commander of the Order of) the British Empire, Thomas Wentworth Russell. The six new baronets include Mr Douglas Hacking, Chairman of the Conservative Party since 1936. Among the thirty-five Knights Bachelor appointed, mostly for loyal political and public services is Dr. Cyril Norwood, headmaster of Harrow from 1926 to 1934 and now president of Saint John’s College, Oxford: also Dr. S. H. Nicholson for services to church music.