Jan.
Owing partly to the recommendations of the Committee appointed by Mr. Baldwin in his last term of office to investigate the manner in which fionours were distributed and partly to the manifest limita tions on a Labour Government's recommendations for elevation. to the Upper House, the Honours Lists issued during Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's Prime ship have displayed the exercise of more imagination than is always to be discerned in such periodical emissions from the fount of honour. The four peerages, for example, recognize achievement in activities of great public interest and cover a wide field. Sir John Hindley has. devoted great experienc? and knowledge to the unraveiling of the complicated problem of the coal trade; Sir Ernes: Lamb has been an ardent social worker, Sir William Plender's eminence in the profession of Accountancy and his service to public finance—he has been an ever-present help in time of City stress, as for instance in the Harry case—are well known. Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander by birth and early education, keeps the lamp of science burning bright ly at Cambridge and- brings
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