Companion (CMG)

• Clarence Edward Beeby – Director of Education.
• Edward George Sayers MC FRCP – a prominent physician, of Auckland. For public services.

• C. E. Beeby
• Edward Sayers

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Bernard Carl Ashwin CMG – formerly Secretary to the Treasury.

• Sir Bernard Ashwin

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Arnold Fielder Downer – engineer in charge of various public works.
• James Peter Speid Jamieson MD – of Nelson; a prominent medical practitioner.
• The Honourable Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki – a member of the Legislative Council of the Cook Islands.
• Arnold Wall – professor emeritus, Canterbury University College. For services to education.

Military division

• Captain John George Nicholson Hilliard DSC VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.

• Jack Hilliard

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Ernest Cook Bathurst JP – mayor of Ashburton since 1944.
• Winifred Delugar – matron-in-chief, Auckland Hospital Boards' Institution.
• Douglas Ralph Auckland Eden – general manager, New Zealand Reparation Estates, Western Samoa.
• William Grieve – chairman of the Southland Centennial Association (Inc.).
• Albert Victor Hartley – of Invercargill. For services to the farming community of New Zealand, especially in Southland.
• Albert John Orchard MB CM – a medical practitioner in Christchurch for over 50 years.
• Basil Otto Peterson. For services to the City of Wellington, especially as town clerk.
• Hugh Thomas Speight – of Dunedin. For social welfare services, especially to the Crippled Children's Society.
• Clement George Trotter. For services to the Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society and other bodies.

Military division

• Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Wilfred Robertshaw MC ED – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Geoffrey Wooller – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Regular Force).
• Wing Commander William Dale Abernethy – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Harold Iver Austad – chairman of the management committee, New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, for many years.
• Marian Eva Baxter – matron of the Rhodes Convalescent Home, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch.
• Henry Reginald Billing – chairman of the New Plymouth High School Board for many years.
• Cora Louisa Burrell – of Christchurch. For social welfare services.
• Arthur Hellyer Collins – chairman of the Wanganui County Council.
• Viva Donaldson JP – of Whangārei. For public services.
• Peter Graham – of Franz Josef Glacier; a mountaineer and alpine guide.
• Sydney Jefcoate Harbutt – of Auckland. For services to various local and public organisations.
• Vera Annie Hayward – of Dunedin. For services rendered in connection with educational and women's organisations.
• Robert Telford Kinaston – of Roxburgh. For services to the farming community.
• Charles Gordon Macauley. For services rendered in connection with the tourist movement in Southland.
• Margaret Emma Magill JP – of Eastbourne. For social welfare services.
• Bridget Ellen Moran (Sister Mary St Athanasius) – of the Māori Girls' College, Greenmeadows, Hastings.
• Mary Anne Reidy – of Kawhia. For services to nursing.
• Robert John Smith – president of the Bush Rugby Football Union for many years.
• Arthur William Taff – of Napier; an inventor and manufacturer of appliances for disabled persons.
• James Frederick Thompson – president of the Greytown Chamber of Commerce.
• Charles Morgan Williams – of Kaiapoi. For public services.

Military division

• First Officer Lorelle Henderson Corbin – Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
• Captain Frederic Rex Bartley – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force).
• Major Robert Maynard Gurr – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
• Major Robert Bruce Reed ED – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Major John William Rolleston – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
• Flight Lieutenant Peter Harry Lumley – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer John Niven – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Lorelle Corbin
• J. F. Thompson
• Morgan Williams