INVESTITURE HELD

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20958, 10 November 1939, Page 2

INVESTITURE HELD

HONOURS CONFERRED KNIGHTHOODS AND ORDERS WELLINGTON, Thursday The Governor-General, Lord Galway, held an investiture at Government House, Wellington, this morning, at which His Excellency conferred the honour of knighthood upon Sir William Blaxland Benham, emeritus professor of biology at the University of Otago, and upon Sir Thomas Alexander Hunter, principal of Victoria University College, and invested them with the insignia of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. At the same time His Excellency conferred the degree, title, honour and dignity of Knight Bachelor upon Sir Charles Manley Luke, of Wellington.

His Excellency also presented the orders and decorations named to the following:— C.M.G.—Mr A. T. Donnelly, of Christchurch; Mr T. D. Hall, Clerk of the House of Representatives, Wellington; Mr H. Tai Mitchell, of Rotorua; Mr A. Tyndall, Undersecretary of the Mines Department and Director of Housing Construction, Wellington. C.B.E.—Mr T. R. Aickin, of Wellington; Mr N. E. Hutchings, of Wellington; Mr A. W. Mulligan, of Wellington; Mr E. N. G. Poulton, of Wellington; Colonel S. C. P. Nicholls, of Christchurch. O.B.E.—Miss J. R. Barr, of Wellington; Mr S. J. Harrison, of Wellington; Mr S. L. Thompson, of Christchurch; Lieutenant-Colonel S. H. Crump, of Wellington. M.B.E. —Miss B. A. Campbell, of New Plymouth; Miss I. M. Corkill, of Christchurch; Miss N. P. Fitzgibbon, of Dunedin; Mrs Mary F. Gaby, of Wellington; Miss M. J. Martin, of Christchurch; Miss J. A. Moore, of Wellington; Miss C. McKenny, of Pahiatua; Captain David Nicol, of Christchurch; Lieutenant G. F. MacCulloch, of Trentham. Efficiency Decoration.—LieutenantColonel I. S. Wilson, M.C., M.D., of Palmerston North. Medal of the Order of the British Empire.—Chief Petty-Officer Writer A. V. Styles, of Wellington. Imperial Service Medal.—Mr J. F. Armitage, of Nelson (late of the British Post Office). At the conclusion of the function the assembled guests were received by Their Excellencies.