HONOURS LIST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 6

HONOURS LIST

) ONE VISCOUNT AND FOUR NEW PEERS RECIPIENTS IN BRITAIN. ! THREE APPOINTMENTS AS DAMES OF BRITISH EMPIRE. (British Official Wireless.) , RUGBY, December 31. ! The principal New Year's Honours j List includes one Viscounty, four Bai ronies. two Privy Councillorships. ■ three Baronetcies. 29 Knights. Bachei lor and one Order of Merit. . The following are among the rei cipients: — | Viscounty; Lord Camrose, who has i been editor-in-chief of the "Daily Telegraph" since 1928. Baronies: Lord Hugh. Cecil. FieldMarshal Sir William Ironside. Sir Robert Kindersiey (president of the National Savings Committee) and Sir Boyd Merriman (president of the ! Probate. Divorce and Admiralty Divi- ; sion of the High Court since 1933). Colonel Clifton Brown. Deputy- : Speaker of the House of Commons, j and Sir Waller Womersley are api pointed to the Privy Council.

The Order of Merit is conferred on Professor Gilbert Murray.

Three appointments as Dames of the British Empire are announced. They are Viscountess Craigavon. the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, who is chairman of the Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence, and Miss Irene Vanbrugh, the well-known act-

NEW 'ZEALAND AWARDS

TO MEN OF FIGHTING SERVICES.

NO CIVILIANS INCLUDED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January I. The Governor-General has announced that the King has been graciously pleased on the occasion of the Nev.' Year to confer the following honours:

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Military Division) (C.8.E.) GROUP CAPTAIN ARTHUR DE TERHOTTE NEVILL. R.N.Z.A.F. Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS JOSEPH KING. New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps ion active

service). MAJOR WILLIAM SMITH. New Zealand Military Forces. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.) LIEUTENANT ROBERT JOSEPH GREENING, Royal Navy. No. 20.028. WARRANT OFFICER. Class 1 (Regimental SergeantMajor) WILLIAM LANGE. New Zealand Artillery <on active service).

No. 5678. WARRANT OFFICER. Class 2 (Company Sergeant-Major) RODGER HENRY BLANCHARD. New Zealand Provost Corps (on active service*. STAFF SERGEANT-MAJOR JOHN THOMAS RAF. BELL, New Zealand Military Forces. Medal of the Order of the British Empire. No. 6250. SERGEANT JOHN ORMOND. New Zealand Military Forces (on active service). Air Force Cross. SQUADRON LEADER RONALD JOSEPH COHEN, R.N.A.A.F. Air Force Medal. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN FREDERICK ALAN PARTRIDGE.

R.A.F. HONOURS. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. December 31. Further New Year R.A.F, service honours are: C. 8., Air Vice Marshal K. R. Park, Thames. ALB E.. Pilot Officer J. A. Paterson, Dunedin (posthumously), Mentioned in dispatches. Wing Commander A. .McKee. Oxford: Wing-Commundbr M. W. Buckley. Invercargill; Pilot Olficer C. E. Evison. Invercargill. Commended. Wing Commander J. G Skeel. New Plymouth. OlTieial advice has been received by Air Headquarters that the New Year honours list includes the following ;?ersonnvl born m New Zealand' C B !•:. Air Commodore C R Carr. R A F AFC. Squadron Leaders S Elworthy ami A Gordon, R .A.F.