Companion (CMG)

• Arnold Everitt Campbell – director, Department of Education.
• Thomas Wilfred Perry – of Christchurch. For valuable services to business, finance and the footwear manufacturing industry.

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Jack Richard Butland – of Auckland. For community and philanthropic services.

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes MB FRACS – of Auckland. For services to medicine.
• Jack Ian King – of Wellington. For services to architecture and to the Standards Institute.
• Matthew Garnet Latta. For services in the field of electrical engineering in New Zealand.
• Henry James Thompson MC ED JP – of Wellington. For services as a stipendiary magistrate.

Military division

• Brigadier Stanley Frederick Catchpole OBE MC ED – New Zealand Brigadiers' List, Territorial Force.

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Louis Amos Bennett MD FRCS. For services to the community, especially as a member of the North Canterbury Hospital Board.
• Albert Oliver Dare – high commissioner for New Zealand in the Cook Islands.
• The Reverend John Gilman Sharp Dunn MBE – of Wellington. For services to the community.
• William George Hilliker JP – general manager of the Dunedin Savings Bank.
• Cyril Spottiswoode Moy Hopkirk ED – of Palmerston North. For services in the field of veterinary science.
• Hallyburton Johnstone JP – of Hamilton. For services to farming and in political life.
• Henare Tiakiriri Keepa – of Whangārei. For services to the Māori people.
• Alexander Arthur MacFarlane DFC – of Rotherham. For services to local government.
• Tasman Joseph McKee – of Nelson. For services to industry, particularly to mineral development.
• Herbert John Morgan – chief judge of the Land Court, Cook Islands.
• Roland Maunsell Perry – of Masterton. For services to farming, particularly as a leading sheep breeder.
• The Reverend Douglas Milne Riddle. For services with the Presbyterian overseas missions, especially in Ambala District, Punjab East, India.
• Alex Gatonby Stead – of Hastings. For public services, particularly in connection with the Sheep Dog Trial Association of New Zealand.

Military division

• Commander George William Shotter – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Harden Lyndale Maxwell MC – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force)
• Wing Commander John Maxwell Carr – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Frederick William Archer – of Reefton. For community and local-body services.
• Kathrine McAllister Bell JP. For services to education and the community, especially as chairman of the Tauranga College Board of Governors.
• Reginald William Bennett JP – of Waiuku. For services to local government.
• Royston Goodall Brown – superintendent, Waikeria Youth Centre, Te Awamutu.
• Mervyn Mackie Chisholm. For services to agriculture, especially as supervising manager, Molesworth Station.
• Alfred James Cox. For services to the community, especially in the development of public, parks in the Gisborne district.
• James Owen Cruse – deputy superintendent, Paparua Prison, Christchurch.
• Muriel Annie Eliza Eastwood JP – of Te Aroha. For community services, especially in connection with the Women's Division of the Federated Farmers of New Zealand.
• Leopold Faigan JP – of Otago Central. For services to the community and local government.
• Mary Elizabeth Gibbard. For services to the community, especially as mayoress of Dannevirke.
• Samuel Swanston Green JP. For services to local government and community welfare, especially as mayor of Dargaville.
• Thomas William George Howard Hammond – of Thames Coast. For services in the field of Māori history and ethnology.
• William John Inskip JP. For services to local government in Ōpōtiki.
• Jessie Jarvis – of New Plymouth. For community services, especially in Red Cross work.
• Frank Hugh Muirhead – of Invercargill. For community welfare services, especially as president of the Returned Services' Association.
• Irene Gwenivere Olorenshaw – lately matron of Oamaru Hospital.
• Alexander Reade Robbins – of Featherston. For services to returned servicemen and rehabilitation work.
• Glassie Davy George Strickland JP. For services to the people of the Cook Islands, especially in the field of public welfare.
• Inia Te Wiata. For services in the field of operatic singing.
• Upoko Tokoa Wichman. For welfare services in the Cook Islands.

Military division

• Sub-Lieutenant Keith Ivor Knight – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Frank Finnegan – New Zealand Cadet Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Moore Morris – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer Class I Walter Lessel Pearless – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Squadron Leader John Lewis Nicholson Harris – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Selwyn Harvey Calvert – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer James Vincent Mulcare – Royal New Zealand Air Force.