Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander (KBE)
- Civil division
- William Blaxland Benham DSc MA FRS – emeritus professor of biology, University of Otago.
- Thomas Alexander Hunter MSc MA – professor of philosophy and psychology, Victoria College, University of New Zealand.
Sir William Benham
Sir Thomas Hunter
Commander (CBE)
- Civil division
- Norman Edwin Hutchings – assistant under-secretary, Public Works Department, Wellington.
Officer (OBE)
- Civil division
- Jane Rhoda Barr MA – of Wellington; formerly principal of Timaru Girls' High School.
- Mother Mary Gonzaga – matron of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Auckland.
- Colonel William Douthwaite Holgate – of Auckland. For public services.
- Military division
- Flight Lieutenant Cyril Eyton Kay – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland.
Member (MBE)
- Civil division
- Teresa Butler – matron of the hospital at Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
- Mary Blythe Law – formerly a teacher at the Institute for the Blind, Auckland.
- Blanche Eleanor Carnachan JP – of Auckland. For social welfare services.
- Frank Reed – of Auckland; formerly chief inspector of mines, Mines Department.
- Military division
- Commissioned Engineer Albert John Lee – Royal Navy; of Auckland.
- Captain David Nicol – New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps; district ordnance officer, southern military district, Christchurch.