1938 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Annual awards for New Zealanders January 2021 January 2021 1938 New Year Honours The 1938 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1937 and the beginning of 1938, and were announced on 1 January 1938.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19380103.2.32 Honours list: new year awards 3 January 1938 New Zealand Herald 8 2 January 202134469 y 1–21 1 January 1938 The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Companion (CMG) Dr Theodore Grant Gray MB ChB MPC 85% – of Wellington; director-general of mental hospitals. Garnet Hercules Mackley – of Wellington; general manager, Railways Department. Order of the British Empire Knight Commander (KBE) Civil division Theodore Rigg MSc 85% GBR FIC 85% – of Nelson; director of the Cawthron Institute. Commander (CBE) Civil division Elgin Nathaniel George Poulton – of Wellington; private secretary to the Minister of Internal Affairs. Military division Colonel Searle Dwyer Mason NZL ED 85% – of Timaru; Commander 3rd New Zealand Infantry Brigade, Southern Command, New Zealand Military Forces. Officer (OBE) Civil division Dr Edward Pohau Ellison MB ChB 85% – chief medical officer, and deputy resident commissioner, Cook Islands. David John Evans NZL JP 85% – of Hokitika; clerk, Westland County Council. Mary Isabel Lambie – of Wellington; director of the Division of Nursing, Health Department. George McCloghrie – constructor, Royal Corps of Naval Constructors; manager of the Naval Base at Devonport, Auckland. John Samuel Neville – town clerk, Christchurch. Military division Commander Charles Bourdas Tinley – Royal Navy; commanding officer, HMS Philomel, and naval officer in charge and superintendent, Auckland. Member (MBE) Civil division Gwendoline Gretchen Hoddinott – of Dunedin; administrative secretary, Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children. Ethel Anne Kidd JP 85% – of Auckland. For social-welfare services. Annie McVicar JP 85% – of Wellington. For public and social-welfare services. George Millar – of Runanga; a mining engineer. William Perkin Williams – of Lower Hutt. For social-welfare services. Military division Warrant Officer Class I Sydney Alexander Noble – Royal New Zealand Air Force, Hobsonville. References Category:New Year Honours (New Zealand) Category:1938 awards Category:1938 in New Zealand