Companion (CB)

Military division

• Air Commodore Sydney Wallingford CBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Wilfrid Joseph Sim MC KC – of Wellington. For public services.

• Sir Wilfrid Sim

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Thomas Cuddie Brash – of Wellington. For services to the dairy and fruit growing industries.
• James Alfred Nash – of Palmerston North. For public and municipal services.
• Charles Anderson Wilkinson MP – of Eltham. For public services.

Military division

• Commander (S) (Acting Captain (S)) Guy Tregarthen Millett – Royal Navy.

• Thomas Brash
• James Nash
• Charles Wilkinson

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Arthur Barnett – of Dunedin. For patriotic and philanthropic services.
• Stanley Sydney McPherson Dean – of Wellington; chairman, Fire Boards Association of New Zealand.
• Thomas Gilray MB ChB – of Napier; a medical practitioner.
• Amy Grace Kane – of Wellington. For social welfare services, especially in connection with women's organisations.
• Alexander Cameron McKillop MB ChB – of Christchurch. For services to psychiatry.
• Robert James Mills – of Auckland. For services to local government.
• The Reverend Eruera Te Tuhi – Methodist Māori Mission, Auckland.
• Muriel Grace Widdowson – matron, public hospital, Christchurch.
• Montague Harrison Wynyard – of Onehunga. For services as a member of local bodies.

Military division

• Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Russell Currie DSO – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Wing Commander Alfred Morton Seafield Manhire – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Fredrick Joseph Ballinger – of the Volunteer Fire Police, Wellington.
• Arthur George Doyly Bayfield – of Wellington. For services to sport.
• Felix Templeman Bellringer – of New Plymouth. For services to local government.
• Madeline Gertrude Brown – of Fendalton. For services to ex-servicemen.
• George Dash – of Waimate. For services to local government.
• Ethel Marianne Gibson – of Christchurch. For services to education.
• Frank Eggar Greenish – of Wellington. For services to architecture.
• James Robert Hardie – of Palmerston North. For services to local government.
• Annie Jane Lyall Henderson – of Invercargill. For social welfare services, especially to the Southland Hospital Board.
• Henrietta Mabel Jackson – of Kōpuaranga. For services to the Women's Division, Federated Farmers.
• James Angus Sutherland Mackay – of Whangārei. For services to local government.
• Thomas Mathew McAhan – of Abbotsford, Green Island. For services to local government.
• Alan Mitchell – of London, England. For services to journalism.
• Cecil Rex Moore – of Auckland. For services to sport.
• Florence Myrtle Neale. For public services in Nelson.
• Sophie Albertha Dupree Rickerby – of Auckland. For social welfare and patriotic services.
• Louis Joseph Vangioni – of Akaroa. For services to Māori ethnology and the community generally.

Military division

• Lieutenant-Commander Norman Huia Hope – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Roy Ernest Ansley – senior commissioned gunner (TAS), Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major (temporary) Leslie Frederick Brooker – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Warrant Officer Class I (temporary) Norman Sigurd Pedersen – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.
• Warrant Officer Andrew Phillip Henry Lee – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer William Stanley Smith – Royal New Zealand Air Force.