Companion (CB)

Military division

• Commodore George Haines Faulkner DSC – Royal Navy (Retired).

Companion (CMG)

• John Malcolm MD FRSE – professor emeritus, University of Otago. For services to the medical profession.
• William Henry Moyes – formerly headmaster, New Plymouth Boys' High School.

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  John Malcolm
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  William Moyes

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Thomas Anderson Hunter CBE – of Wellington. For services in connection with dental health and welfare.

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  Sir Thomas Hunter

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• George Finley Dixon MBE – a private secretary to ministers of the Crown for 31 years.
• Thomas David James Leech – dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Auckland University College.

Military division

• Brigadier Leslie Potter DSO – New Zealand Military Forces.

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Joseph Elmsley Broadfoot – director, Institute for the Blind, Auckland.
• Helen Matilda Comrie – of Auckland. For valuable services to nursing.
• Walter Verran Dyer – chairman, Education Board, Wellington.
• Waata Roore Erueti – of Aramiro, Whatawhata. For services to the Māori people.
• James John Marlow – of St Kilda, Dunedin. For municipal services.
• Colin Miln. For services in connection with the Returned Services' Association in Christchurch.
• Patrick John Monaghan MB BS – chief medical officer, Western Samoa.
• Charles Ormond Morse – of Dargaville. For municipal services.
• Archibald Frank Nicoll – of Christchurch. For services to art.
• Raharuhi Pururu – of Horohoro, Rotorua. For services to the Māori people.
• Frank Taylor Sandford – official secretary, high commissioner's office, London, 1931–39. For public services.

Military division

• Commander (E) Alan John Norris – Royal Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Gordon Jervis – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Sneddon McKinnon – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Acting Wing Commander Cameron Archer Turner – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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  James Marlow

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Eric Jack Daniel – secretary, Returned Services' Association, Ashburton.
• Jessie Miller Grant. For patriotic and social welfare work in the Waiapu Zone.
• James Fort Himburg – of Dunedin. For patriotic work, particularly in organising, entertainments for the Forces.
• Charles Ivory Jennings – of Rangiora. For municipal services.
• Titiata Elizabeth Paora Kawharu – district health nurse, Dargaville. For services in North Auckland and Rarotonga.
• Lilly Grace McLean – district nurse, Great Barrier Island.
• William Meikleham – manager, special school, Otekaieke. For services in connection with the care and training of backward and defective children.
• Maude Morris – lately matron, Orakanui Home, Waitati.
• Leslie Gordon Olliff – employed in the naval dockyard at Auckland.
• Edward James Rose. For services to the St John's Ambulance Brigade, West Coast district.
• Thomas Bankes Smith – employed in the Lighthouse Service, Marine Department.
• Catherine Thomson – of Brooklyn, Wellington. For services to the St John's Ambulance Brigade.
• Florence Ellen Woodhouse – staff clerk, Lands and Survey Department.

Military division

• Temporary Acting Lieutenant Edward William Blakiston – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• 800287 Warrant Officer Class II Alfred John Baigent – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain William Hoole Cummings – New Zealand Military Forces.
• 19270 Warrant Officer Class I James Edward Hobson – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major John Alexander Pountney – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Acting Squadron Leader David Charles De Rungs – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Jesse Julius De Willimoff DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Frederick William Thornton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Clement Sydney Boulton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Associate (ARRC)

• Senior Charge Sister Venus Marshall Price – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.