Companion (CMG)

• Kenneth Walter Kiddle – of Havelock North; chairman, New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board.
• Raymond Walter Ralph White – of Silverstream; lately governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Dame Commander (DBE)

Civil division

• Kiri Janette Te Kanawa (Mrs Park) OBE – of Surrey, England. For services to opera.

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  Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Knight Commander (KBE)

Military division

• Vice Admiral Neil Dudley Anderson CB CBE – Chief of Defence Staff.

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Professor Alan Joseph Alldred – of Invercargill. For services to orthopaedic surgery.
• Emeritus Professor Kenneth Brailey Cumberland – of Auckland. For services to geography and the community.
• Charles John Dempsey – of Auckland. For services to association football.
• John Fraser Robertson – of Lower Hutt; Secretary for Justice.

Military division

• Brigadier John Webster Mawson MVO – Brigadiers' List, New Zealand Army.

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Beville Robert Austin JP – of Palmerston North. For services to the community.
• Henry John Lester Bailey – of Timaru. For services to the community.
• Lindsay John MacFarlarie Black – of Greymouth; lately specialist orthopaedic surgeon, West Coast Hospital Board.
• David Alan Bowron – of Christchurch. For services to manufacturing and the community.
• Peter Thomas Button – of Wellington. For services to search and rescue operations.
• Walter Robertson Fleming – deputy assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police.
• Haydn Neil Guymer – of Surrey, England. For services to export.
• John Hildebrand Holderness – of Havelock North. For services to scouting and the community.
• Dr Norcott de Bisson Hornibrook FRSNZ – of Lower Hutt; chief micropalaeontologist, New Zealand Geological Survey, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1951–1981.
• Hugh Milson Linklater – of Palmerston North. For services to farming and the community.
• Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman (Mrs Hall) – of Morrinsville. For services to pottery.
• Alan William Mackney – of Auckland. For services to forestry and the community.
• Peter Heywood Malone – of Nelson. For services to the veterinary profession.
• Gordon Charles Mason JP – of Warkworth. For services to local government.
• Onny Parun – of Wellington. For services to tennis.
• John Charles Paterson – of Christchurch. For services to agriculture.
• Dr Lancelot Eric Richdale FRSNZ – of Auckland. For services to ornithology.
• Clementina Smeeton – of Auckland. For services to returned servicewomen, nursing and the community.
• Lagitafuke Haioti Viliko – of Auckland. For services to the people of Niue.
• George Frederick Vincent – of Wellington. For services to badminton and softball.

Military division

• Captain Kelvin John Lewis – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander Dixon – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Group Captain Albert Edward Thomson AFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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  Gordon Mason

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Oliver Richard Arkell – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Sylvia Ashton-Warner – of Otūmoetai. For services to education and literature.
• Ian Nelson Drummond – of Motueka. For services to returned servicemen and the community.
• Peter Glen – of Lower Hutt. For services to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
• Dorothy Helen Hamilton – of Wellington. For services as a dental nurse and to the community.
• George Sinclair Hanson – of Ontario, Canada; president, New Zealand Lamb Company Ltd. For services to export.
• John David Monroe Herron – of Dunedin; lately rector, Bayfield High School, Dunedin.
• Robin Cromwell Holst – of Auckland. For services to music.
• George Leslie Victor Hunter – of Auckland. For services to the taxi industry.
• Arthur Russell Kerse – of Tawa. For services to the New Zealand Crippled Children Society.
• Clive Kingsley-Smith – of Whakatāne. For services to the community.
• Alan Julian La Roche – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Keith Reginald Leckie – of Dunedin. For services to swimming.
• Richard Norman Lyon – of Auckland; superintendent, Armament Stores Depot and Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Auckland.
• Albert Bernard Macdonald – of Gisborne. For services to the community.
• Kathleen Isobel McRoberts – of Auckland. For services to music.
• Anna Marie Millar – of Whangārei. For services to the Māori people.
• Stewart Rutherford Morrison – of Auckland. For services to adult education and the arts.
• Naomi Oakly – of Masterton. For services to the community.
• Cyril Pascoe Perry JP – of Aria. For services to the Sheep Dog Trial Association.
• Alan Kirkland Prince JP – of Whakatāne. For services to the community.
• Jack Ranfurly Arthur Onslow Rogers – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Blair Goldesborough Stockwell – of Christchurch. For services to cycling.
• Rodney George Sutton – of Invercargill. For services to music.

Military division

• Warrant Officer Seaman Gunnery Instructor Kenneth Johnston – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Marine Engineering Artificer Noel William White – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Ian Moorcroft Bolton ED – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
• Major Christopher Bernard Mullane – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Major and Quartermaster Robert Percy Withers – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Flight Lieutenant Graham Hugo Page Hanify – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

For community service

• James Edward Brunton – of Dunedin.
• Riki te Mairaki Ellison-Taiaroa JP – of Christchurch.
• Donald Macfarlane Purves Hay – of Wellington.
• Neil Isaac JP – of Christchurch.
• Mina Annie Kerr – of Wellington.
• Margaret Laurence Salas – of Wellington.

For public services

• Robert Agnew – of Blenheim.
• Jack Brand – of Ashburton.
• Mavis Amy Campbell – of Kaikohe.
• Ivan George Elder – of Gore.
• Peter Mercer – of New Plymouth.
• James Henry Mitchell – of Oamaru.
• Eve Poole – of Invercargill.
• Mary Allan Ronnie (Mrs O'Connor) – of Auckland; national librarian, National Library of New Zealand, 1976–1981.

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  Eve Poole
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  Mary Ronnie

For community service

• Florence Amy Balfour – of Gisborne.
• Rita Margaret Baughen – of Ashburton.
• Henry Desmond Bennett JP – of Wanganui.
• Margaret Napier Boyce – of Ongaonga.
• Sybil Elizabeth Clifton-Mogg – of Christchurch.
• Graham Thomas Condon – of Christchurch.
• Mildred Coursey – of Ōtāhuhu.
• John Fisher Davidson – of Christchurch.
• Vivienne Ellen Degenkolbe – of Auckland.
• William Vincett Griffin – of Wellington.
• James Clifford Harbut – of Christchurch.
• Helen Joyce Hole – of Tīrau.
• Olga May Jekyll – of Christchurch.
• Frederick William Harris Jones – of Tauranga.
• Shona Elsie Kempton – of Kaitangata.
• Helen Roberta Richardson Kidd – of Oamaru.
• Kathleen Dorothy Kirkby – of Tauranga.
• Gladys Elizabeth Lee – of Te Kūiti.
• Ella Margaret McLeod JP – of Wellington.
• Florence Isabel Mechen – of Christchurch.
• Joyce Meiklejohn – of Matakana.
• Winifred Edith Osborne – of Auckland.
• Isabel Winifred Palmer – of Auckland.
• Hazel Mary Phillips – of Auckland.
• Arnold Raymond Rae – of Kaitaia.
• Catherine Aird Suddaby – of Riverton.
• Minnie Doreen Sutton – of Gisborne.
• Arnold Thomas – of Auckland.
• Myra Everett Tripp – of Gore.
• Phyllis Cordelia Weir – of Christchurch.
• Tamati Wharehuia – of Te Puke.

For public services

• Douglas Ernest Aldridge JP – of Mount Maunganui.
• Vera Ballance – of Wellington.
• Richard Stuart Benner – of Kerikeri.
• The Reverend Father Patrick Lorenzo Bracken – of Murupara.
• Joan Millward Bull – of Hunterville.
• George Kenmir Bunce – of Auckland.
• Norman Allan Carran JP – of Taumarunui.
• Brian Leslie Cox – of Hastings.
• Kalapu Kula Fiaola – of Fakaofo, Tokelau; staff nurse, Tokelau Public Service.
• Harold Ernest Godber JP – of Auckland.
• Dorothy Steel Good – of Wellington.
• Milton William Laurence Gosling JP – of Tūrangi.
• Angela Mary Harwood – senior sergeant, New Zealand Police.
• Stanley Raymond Henry Keith – detective senior sergeant, New Zealand Police.
• Charles Cuthbert Knight QFSM JP – of Geraldine.
• Ronald Charles Lloyd – of Kaikohe.
• Vera Daphne Malone – of Kaponga.
• Louise Frances Miller JP – of Pukekohe.
• Thomas Richard Calvert Muir – of Tauranga.
• Bruce Herbert Orchard JP – of Inglewood.
• Iosefo Perez – of Nukunonu, Tokelau; radio operator, Tokelau Public Service.
• Elizabeth Stella Poole – of Queenstown.
• Francis Bernard Tully – senior constable, New Zealand Police,
• Gladys Mary Wallace – of Matamata.
• Edmund Bentley Wild JP – of Tuakau.