Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander (KBE)
- Civil division
- The Honourable Walter James Broadfoot – lately Postmaster-General and Minister of Telegraphs.
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Sir Walter Broadfoot
Commander (CBE)
- Civil division
- George William Clinkard JP. For services as secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce and as a member of the Board of Trade.
- Alexander Robert Entrican – Director of Forestry.
- Andrew Sinclair Sutherland. For public services.
- James Leslie Allan Will MB ChB – of Christchurch; an orthopaedic surgeon.
- Military division
- Group Captain Francis Ross Dix OBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Officer (OBE)
- Civil division
- Kenneth Curtis Aekins – of Mount Roskill. For services to the community.
- Walter Edwin Bate – of Hastings. For services to local government.
- Victoria Amohau Bennett – a chieftainess of the Te Āti Awa tribe. For services to the Māori people.
- Thomas Murray Charters – of Christchurch. For services to local government and in connection with social welfare movements.
- Roberts Mathew Firth – Tourist Commissioner and Her Majesty's consul-general for New Zealand at San Francisco.
- Frederick Willie Freeman – a civil engineer of Christchurch.
- John Norman Millard. For services to education and sport, especially rugby football.
- The Reverend Alexander Thomas Thompson. For services to the community, especially in connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society and St Andrew's Boys' College, Christchurch.
- Henry Toogood – a consulting engineer of Wellington.
- Military division
- Lieutenant-Colonel John Bryden Harrison – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
- Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Anderson Lindell DSO ED – Royal New Zealand Engineers (Territorial Force).
- Wing Commander Percival Patrick O'Brien – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Member (MBE)
- Civil division
- Henry Albert Anderson. For services to local government, especially as mayor of Mount Albert.
- Charles Frederick Bennett JP – of Auckland. For social welfare services.
- Elfie Sarah Masters Boyle – president of the New Zealand Private Hospitals Association.
- Mabel Alice Buckley – of Devonport, Auckland. For social welfare services.
- Charles Collins – of Wellington; city organist and treasurer of the City Council.
- Catherine Wishart Doctor. For social welfare services, especially as president of the New Zealand Free Kindergarten Union and of the Wellington Association.
- Olive Marion Fairbairn – of Dunedin. For social welfare services.
- John Farrell – of Auckland. For services to the stage.
- Lilian Ada Hill. For services as a public health nurse and nurse inspector.
- Sidney Edward Langstone JP. For services to the St John Ambulance Association at Auckland.
- Jessie Iris Martin. For services to nursing, and especially as matron of the Cook Hospital, Gisborne.
- Gladys Irene McDonald – of Dunedin. For social welfare services.
- Jane McDougal – of Wanganui. For social welfare services.
- Nellie Eileen O'Callaghan ARRC. For services in connection with the Blinded Servicemen's Trust Board and as matron of the Rawhiti Surgical Hospital, Auckland.
- Ernest John Osborne – of Birkenhead. For service to local government.
- The Reverend William John Robertson – chaplain to the Presbyterian Social Service Association of Southland.
- Elsie Smith – a nurse in the Maori Anglican Mission, Koriniti, Whanganui River, for 25 years.
- Roy Hunter Stevenson – of Dunedin. For social welfare services.
- Roderick Syme – of Hawera. For services as an agricultural instructor and in fostering mountaineering.
- Herbert Edward Walters – of Kerikeri. For services to local government and in connection with land development.
- Alfred Graeme Cooke Yarborough. For services to local government in Hokianga.
- Military division
- Senior Commissioned Master-at-Arms Jack Alan Cameron – Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Major (temporary) Eric Rowland Firth BEM – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
- Warrant Officer Class II Alfred Benjamin Parkes – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
- Major Godfrey Henry Stace ED – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
- Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Leonard Herbert Forster – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Wilson MC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Warrant Officer Cyril Benjamin Hill – Royal New Zealand Air Force.