Companion (CB)

Military division

• Commodore Second Class George Walter Gillow Simpson CBE – Royal Navy.

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• William James Girling – of Blenheim. For public services, especially in Marlborough Provincial District.
• Gilbert Hutton Grigg – of Hororata. For services to agriculture.
• William Edward Hale – of Maramarua. For services to the dairy industry, particularly as chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board.
• Arthur Bushby Pearson MD – of Christchurch; pathologist to the Christchurch Hospital Board and examiner in the medical school at Otago University for many years.
• William Norman Perry – of Bruntwood. For services to farming, especially as Dominion president of Federated Farmers Incorporated.

Military division

• Brigadier William Henry Blinman Bull OBE ED KHS MB ChB FRCS – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.

• William Girling
• William Hale
• William Bull

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• John William Andrews – of Lower Hutt; mayor of Lower Hutt for 15 years.
• William George Belton – of Waverley; president, Counties Association, and chairman, Patea County Council.
• Thomas Oakley William Brebner – His Majesty's New Zealand consul-general at San Francisco.
• Arthur Francis Brooks Broadhurst – of Cambridge; headmaster, St Peter's School, Cambridge.
• Harold David Caro – of Hamilton; mayor of Hamilton.
• Arthur Edward Flower MA MSc – of Fendalton. For services to education.
• Walter Arnold Hadlee – of Christchurch. For services in the field of sport.
• Enoch Bruce Levy – of Palmerston North. For services to agriculture in connection with grassland research.
• Gordon Edward George Minhinnick – of Auckland; a prominent cartoonist.
• Douglas Warren Russell – of Christchurch. For services to ex-servicemen.
• Charles William Tyler – of Rangiora; mayor of Rangiora.

Military division

• Lieutenant-Colonel John Brooke-White – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Wing Commander Arthur Beale Greenaway – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Jack Andrews
• Harold Caro
• Walter Hadlee
• Gordon Minhinnick

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Eileen Kate Nesta Adams – of Clevedon; Dominion president, women's section, Federated Farmers Incorporated.
• Alberta Allison Boland – of Waimate. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Walter John Majendie Bourchier – of Onehunga. For services to ex-servicemen's organisations.
• Elizabeth Coats – of Remuera. For social welfare services.
• John Robin Harris Cooksey – of Rissington, Hawke's Bay; Dominion commissioner for training for boy scouts since 1936.
• Margaret Bain Coutts JP – of Paremata. For social welfare services, especially to backward children.
• Randolph James Estall – of Christchurch. For outstanding services as conductor of Woolston Band.
• The Reverend Thomas Halliday – of Auckland; convenor of the Auckland City Metropolitan Relief and Auckland Presbyterian Social Services Association.
• Milly Ruby Hudson – of Dunedin. For social-welfare services.
• John James Henry Lauder – of Auckland; superintendent, His Majesty's Prison, Auckland.
• Fred Purnell JP – of Marton; mayor of Marton.
• Wilfrid Dalton Shelton – of Gore. For municipal and patriotic services.
• James Cleland Hall Somerville – of Dunedin. For services to the School Committees' Association and the Otago Boys' High School board.
• Morris Stewart Spence – of Napier; president, Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum.
• The Reverend Canon Paora Temuera – of Ōtaki. For services to the Māori people.
• Clifford Simeon Thompson – of Christchurch; treasurer, Canterbury School Committees' Association.

Military division

• Archibald Bazil Cox – Temporary Senior Commissioned Gunner, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer 2nd Class James John Bergman – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Major Hubert Waters Jacka – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Captain Reginald Frederick Joyce – New Zealand Regiment.
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Arthur Manners – Royal New Zealand Air Force.