HONOURS IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 5

HONOURS IN BRITAIN

FOUR NEW PEERS CREATED BARONY FOR SIR MAURICE HANKEY. KNIGHTS AND PRIVY COUNCILLORS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. January 2. The King has conferred the following New Year honours: — Barons. COLONEL SIR MAURICE HANKEY. MR CECIL HARMSWORTH. RT. HON. LORD JUSTICE GREER. SIR PETER RYLANDS. Knight Grand Cross of Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.0.) SIR JOHN REITH, Director-General of the 8.8. C. Knight Grand Cross of the Bath (G.C.8.) ADMIRAL SIR DUDLEY POUND, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. Knight Commander of the Bath (K.C.8.) VICE-ADMIRAL ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, Naval A.D.C. to the King. MR E. E. BRIDGES, secretary of the Cabinet Committee of Imperial Defence. Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) MR ERIC GUSTAV MACHTIG, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office. CAPTAIN C. G. GRAVES, DeputyDirector of the 8.8. C. MR BASIL NEWTON, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia. Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.). HON. SIR ALEXANDER CADOGAN, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. RT. HON. SIR NEVILLE HENDERSON, British Ambassador in Berlin. Knight Bachelor (K. 8. LT.-COL. J. G. HAY, a member of the International Rubber Regulations Committee. MR ADAM MAITLAND, M.P. MR F. J. PEARCE, past-president of the British Dental Association. MR S. J. PIGOTT, managing-direc-tor of John Brown and Co., Ltd., shipbuilders. LIEUT.-COL. HEATON FORBES ROBINSON, Director of Works of the Imperial War Graves Commission. MR J. B. F. WATSON, Director of the National Confederation of Employers’ Organisations. Privy Councillor (P.C.). MR H. M. BUTLER, M.P. CAPTAIN H. F. C. CROOKSHANK, M.P. Order of Merit (0.M.). ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET LORD CHATFIELD. SIR JAMES JEANS, Professor of Astronomy in the Royal Institution. Companion of the Bath (C. 8. MR F. T. A. ASHTON-GWATKIN and MR W. STRANG, members of Lord Runciman’s staff on the Czechoslovakian mission. ' AUSTRALIAN LIST EIGHT KNIGHTHOODS CONFERRED. SYDNEY, January 2. The Australian New Year Honours list includes the following:— Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.).

THE HON. H. E. STARKE, Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (K.8.E.). , MR REGINALD MARCUS CLARK, Sydney. THE HON. H. E. MANNING, Attor-ney-General of New South Wales. Knight Bachelor (K. 8.

MR GEORGE SHAW KNOWLES, Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.

DR. JOHN RAMSAY, Launceston, Tasmania.

MR WILLIAM DIXSON, Sydney. THE HON. GEORGE LOUIS GOUDIE, M.L.C., Victoria. THE HON. WALTER DUNCAN, M.L.C., Leader of the Legislative Council of South Australia.