Companion (CB)

Military division

• Air Vice-Marshal Cameron Archer Turner CBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Companion (CMG)

• Orton Sutherland Hintz – of Auckland. For services in the field of journalism.
• The Most Reverend James Michael Liston – Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.

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  James Liston

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• John Te Herekiekie Grace MVO JP. For services to the Māori people and in public affairs.

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Matthew Oliver Barnett – of Wellington. For services in the field of commercial law.
• Anthony Ian Cottrell – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
• Hallam Walter Dowling – of Taradale. For services to local government and to the community.
• Thomas Clarence Morrison JP. For services to sport, especially rugby football.

Military division

• Brigadier Harold Albert Purcell DSO ED ADC – Brigadiers' List (Regular Force), New Zealand Military Forces.

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  Anthony Cottrell

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• William Sykes Baverstock – director, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch. For services to art.
• Reginald George James Berry – of Wellington; artist and designer. For services as designer of postage stamps and decimal currency coins.
• Kenneth Clifford Alwyn Carter – of Auckland. For services to the saw-milling and timber industry.
• Eric Mitchell Elder MB ChB – of Tuatapere. For services to the community, especially as a medical practitioner.
• Raymond Ferner JP – of Tauranga. For services to local government and to the legal profession.
• Rua Isobel Gardner – of Auckland. For services to education.
• Oswald George James – of Hamilton. For services to the farming industry.
• William Malcolm – of North Otago. For services to the farming community.
• Horace Mawson JP – of Dargaville. For services to education.
• Michael Elliott Shackleton MB FRCS – of Dunedin. For services as leader and surgeon of the New Zealand surgical team at Qui Nhơn, South Vietnam.
• Hamish Stewart Thomas – of Anakiwa. For services to the Outward Bound School of New Zealand.

Military division

• Commander (Honorary) William Henry Minchall VRD – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Minton Grierson ED – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Territorial Force).
• Group Captain Malcolm Stuart Gunton AFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Emily Church Craven – of Blenheim. For services to the community.
• Mervyn Thomas Dearsly – of Palmerston North. For services to the community.
• Alfred Harold Finnie JP – of Dunedin. For services to local government.
• The Reverend William Wesley Hamilton Greenslade – of Rotorua. For services to the community especially in connection with the Methodist Church of New Zealand.
• D'Arcy Ormonde Haskell – of Napier; advisory commissioner to Taupo County Council.
• Frederick Ensor Humphreys – of Gisborne. For services to the farming community.
• Helen Mary Johnson – of Wellington. For services to the School Dental Service, especially as matron of the Wellington School.
• Richard Thomas Mounsey – of Auckland. For services in the field of civil aviation, especially as a senior airline captain in New Zealand National Airways Corporation.
• Edward William Norman. For services to the community in Woodville and Pahiatua.
• Austin Edward Reid MM JP – of Carterton. For services to local government as chairman of Wairarapa South County Council for many years.
• Robert Clarence Reid JP – of Auckland. For services to the community in local government and welfare activities.
• Robert William Robson – of Stratford. For services to ex-service personnel and families.
• Alfred Geoffrey Scott – of Wellington; manager of the National Film Unit.
• Thomas Duncan Scott – of Dannevirke. For services to education.
• Isabella Ramsay Stevenson – of Gore. For services to the nursing profession.
• Mona Bessie Veitch – of Wellington. For services to the community over many years.
• Cecil Roy Wylde. For services to the community especially as mayor of the borough of Runanga.

Military division

• Lieutenant Reginald Goddard – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Samuel Bruce Matthews – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• The Reverend James Hugh McNeill – chaplain third class, Royal New Zealand Chaplains' Department (Regular Force).
• Major Roger John Pearce – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer Class I, Peter Emil Wischnowsky – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Squadron Officer Gilda St Clair Bezar – Women's Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Johnston Vivian William Thomas BEM – Royal New Zealand Air Force.