BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 7

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

TWO PROFESSORS KNIGHTED RECOGNITION OF SERVICES. OTHER CIVIL AND MILITARY AWARDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 7. 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 birthday, 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 William Blaxland Benham, Professor Emeritus, Otago University College, Dunedin. Professor Thomas Alexander Hunter, Wellington. Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.): Henry Tai Mitchell, Rotorua. Arthur Tyndall, Under-Secretary of the Mines Department and Director of Housing Construction, Wellington. Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.8.E.): Norman Edwin Hutchings, Assistant Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department, Wellington. Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. Miss Jane Rhoda Barr, Wellington, late principal of the Girls’ High School, Timaru. Mother Mary Gonzaga, matron of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Auckland. Colonel William Douthwaite Holgate, Auckland. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.): Miss Teresa Butler, late matron of the hospital at Rarotonga, Cook Islands Miss Mary Blythe Law, late teacher in the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland. Miss Blanche Eleanor Carnachan. J.P., Auckland. Frank Reed, Auckland, formerly Government Chief Inspector of Mines. MILITARY DIVISION. Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. Flight Lieutenant Cyril Eyton Kay, R.N.Z.A.F., Auckland. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.): Albert John Lee, Commissioned Engineer, R.N., Auckland. Captain David Nicol, District Ordnance Officer, Southern Military District, Christchurch.