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rewardstof distinguished JamaicanHis Majesty the King has recognised the public ifivice of the Hon. Harold Egbert Allan, O.B.E. statesman and legislator,Knight Bachelor. The award is made in the nine?*on him the honour ofThe Honours ListOn the occasion of (he celebration of the Kings Birthday. His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the.folio wing award of Honours:—•Knight BachelorThe Honourable Harold Egbert Allan, O.B E.aM.H.R., Minister far Finance and General Purposes.The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Commander (Military Division)Brigadier Julian Jefferson, lately Commander, North CaribbeanArea. ‘ s‘Officer (Civil Division) ‘Mr, Herbert Leslie Harris, lately Town Clerk, Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation.Member (Civil Division)Mr. Thomas William Willis. Treasurer, Turks and Caicos Island?,' Imperial Service Order ■■Captain Roy Sidney Martinez, lately Commissioner of Lands, Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service ,Inspector Clive Alexander Smith, Jamaica Constabulary Force. Inspector Peter Lone. Jamaica Constabulary ForrpThis signal honour to Mr. Allan will be received with wrJVihe greatest satisfaction and enthusiasm throughout the is-'-01 and, more especially in Port-$lJan4 the parish of his birth, ^Shand which he has so ably and ||! assiduously represented in |rf:the Legislature for thirteen §• unbroken years. Indeed all ||jday yesterday Sir Harold and SfLady Allan have been the re-^ cipients of many messages of ^felicitation, ‘ congratulations%and good wishes.4 FOREMOST STATESMANiRegarded as Jamaica’s ioremost statesman and most outstanding le-- gislator, Sir Harold Allan, who is 53. can look back with pride on a V- career that has been distinguished : by unflinching service to his own ^country, and, in a lesser degree, to the- British West Indies.Oh alL occasions he has striven o uphold the inTerest of the com* munity and has promoted the pros-*.r perity of his island home with cre-dit to himself and satisfaction lo his countrymen.Thus have the excellence ofhi* statesmanship, his sagacity and alacrity won commendation not alone at home but abroad, where his services on Colonial Office assignments have made V him ah internationally known flpnre. And it is fitting that recognition of his public service by the Sovereign should follow “ so closely his return from Geneva and Havana, where SirHarold represented Jamaica ;and: V the West Indie* at the , Inter-oaat Trade Organisation con-ehcea,-:-.-:... ! • -!The assiduity- and zeal, with •which he performed-:hi3 dotted these conferences may nirt be generally knpwn. but recognition came' not so long ago from the Secretary of State lor the Colonies who paid tribute to Sir Harold for his valuable services.Few *n«n a* Sir Arthur Richards, a: former Governor once, said of him, can look back on so crowded a public life*.(Continued on page 18}THE HON. SIR HAROLD EGBERT ALLAN, Kt„ O.B.E.
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Fri, Jun 11, 1948
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