Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander (KBE)
- Civil division
- Alfred Hayward CBE – formerly deputy chairman of the Dairy Board.
Commander (CBE)
- Civil division
- George Bartrum Baker MBE DCM MM JP – of Timaru. For services to the farming community.
- George Philip Proctor – president of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation.
- Frank Felix Reid JP – chairman of the Town and Country Planning Board.
- William Arthur Whitlock – of Havelock North. For services to journalism.
- Military division
- Brigadier Walter Sneddon McKinnon OBE – New Zealand Army.
Officer (OBE)
- Civil division
- James Douglas Aitchison JP – of Palmerston North. For services to local government.
- Malcolm Scott Galloway MC JP – of Wellington. For services to the New Zealand Red Cross Society.
- John Houston – of Hāwera. For services to the community in Taranaki.
- Pei Te Hurinui Jones – of Taumarunui. For services to the Māori people.
- Captain Walter Geoffrey Kelsey – harbourmaster at Auckland.
- Morten Rennerberg Lawson JP – of Mangamaire. For services to local government.
- Ronald Wright McCredie – of Balclutha. For services to the community.
- Alexander Gibb Monahan – of Motueka. For services to local government and the community.
- Horace McDonald Scott – of Auckland. For services to education.
- John Turnbull – formerly general secretary of the New Zealand Public Service Association.
- Denys William Wanklyn Williams – of Tokomaru Bay. For services to local government.
- Pearce Melvin Eddy Williams JP – mayor of Kaikohe, and chairman of the Northland Hospital Board.
- Military division
- Commander Cyril Howard Hilliard VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Leo Adolphus Kermode – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
- Wing Commander Lawrence Hugh Edwards – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
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Member (MBE)
- Civil division
- Margaret Mariner Bain – of Christchurch. For social-welfare services.
- Lucy Elizabeth Cook – of Marton. For services rendered under the auspices of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children.
- Helen May Downer – of Rotorua. For services to the kindergarten movement.
- Edwin Edwards JP – of Paeroa. For services in the fields of social welfare and local government.
- Henry Charles Goffin – of Wellington; brigadier, Salvation Army.
- John James Halcrow. For services in the New Zealand Police.
- Herbert Gladstone Hill – of Wellington. For services in the fields of social welfare and music.
- Basil Hundleby – in recognition of his services as engineer to the Marlborough County Council.
- Charles William Sherlock Keinan – mayor of Milton, since 1944.
- Christian Lassen – of Hastings. For services to local government.
- The Reverend Pakake Heketoro Leonard – of Rotorua. For services to the Māori people.
- John William Macleod JP – of Loburn. For services to local government and the Returned Services' Association.
- Harry Archibald Mildon – honorary treasurer of the Auckland Returned Services' Association.
- Stanley John Snow – deputy mayor of Whangārei.
- Norman McLeod Speer – of Auckland. For services to the electrical industry.
- Constance Egmont Tulloch – of Putāruru. For social-welfare services.
- Norman Webley JP – of Dannevirke. For services to local government.
- Kathleen Gertrude Hurd-Wood – of Hamilton. For services to the League of Hard of Hearing in New Zealand.
- Military division
- Lieutenant-Commander Douglas Gerald Bamfield – Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Captain John James Ayton – Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Territorial Force).
- Warrant Officer Second Class Cecil Balfour Fowler – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
- Major Robert Ewen Johnston – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
- Major Robert James Moor ED – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force).
- Squadron Leader Lancelot James McLean – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Flight Officer Ernestine Graham Hume – Women's Royal New Zealand Air Force.