Companion (CMG)

• Lloyd Gilbert Brown – of Wellington. For services to manufacturing and development of energy resources.
• James Hunter Gemmell – of Auckland. For services to manufacturing and export.
• George Hamish Ormond Wilson – of Wellington. For services as chairman of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and the board of trustees of the National Art Gallery and Museum.

• Ormond Wilson

Knight Commander (KCVO)

• The Very Reverend Martin Gloster Sullivan – of Auckland, formerly of London; Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1967–1977.

Dame Commander (DBE)

Civil division

• Daphne Helen Purves – of Dunedin. For services to the International and New Zealand Federations of University Women.

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Arthur Hugh Ward OBE – of Waikanae. For services to the dairy industry and education.

Military division

• Air Marshal Richard Bruce Bolt CB CBE DFC AFC – Chief of Defence Staff.

• Sir Arthur Ward

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Margaret Hazel Cotterill – of Plimmerton. For services to the YWCA.
• John Keith Dobson – of Auckland. For services to business management.
• Grace Shellie Hollander JP – of Christchurch. For services to the National Council of Women and the community.
• Oswald Henry Jackson JP – of Greymouth. For services to local-body and community affairs.
• Donald David Rowlands MBE – of Auckland. For services to rowing.
• Henry Piet Drury Van Asch MBE – of Havelock North. For services to aerial mapping.

Military division

• Commodore Roy Herbert Longland Humby – Royal New Zealand Navy.

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• James Neil Aitken – of Patearoa. For services to hydatid research and eradication.
• William Stewart Armitage – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
• Malcolm Cort Astley JP – of Auckland. For services as a stipendiary magistrate and to the community.
• Thomas James Atchison – of Ngāruawāhia. For services to riding.
• Audrey Ngaere Gale – of New Plymouth. For services to the community.
• Maxwell Ian Hume – of Lower Hutt; lately Deputy Assistant Commissioner, New Zealand Police.
• Timothy Hurley – of Wanganui. For services to the tourist and travel industry.
• Dr Norris Roy Jefferson ED – of Invercargill. For services to paraplegics, sport and medicine.
• Edward Anthony Kennedy – of Paraparaumu Beach; lately deputy chairman, State Services Commission.
• Dorothy Pauline McNab – of Balclutha. For services to the community.
• (James Frank) Edgar Mansfield – of Napier. For services as a bookbinder and sculptor.
• Maurice Noel Manthel – of Wellington. For services to the community.
• William Gordon Nolan JP – of Wairoa. For services to sport and the community.
• Edward Ronald Prince – of Wanganui. For services to sport and the community.
• Lieutenant Commander Peter Maxwell Sanders MBE – of Wellington; New Zealand Cadet Forces.
• Arthur Frederick Thomas – of Auckland. For services to local government.
• Lawrence David Tinkham – of Wellington. For services to the performing arts.
• Emeritus Professor John Le Bailly Warren – of Dunedin; lately dean, University of Otago Dental School.

Military division

• Commander William Ferguson Jaques – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Colonel Ian Hamilton Burrows MC – Colonels' List, New Zealand Army.
• Group Captain Arthur Gilbert Tringham – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Noel Manthel
• Fred Thomas

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Gary Thomas William Butler – of Wanganui. For services to the community.
• John Morton Dickey JP – of Auckland. For services to the pharmaceutical profession, sport and community.
• Robert Dossor – of Picton. For services to the province of Marlborough.
• Charles Dudley – of Remuera. For services to racing and trotting.
• Alan Falconer Fraser – of Rangiora. For services to sport.
• Betty Fraser – of Wellington; lately principal, Wellington Girls' College.
• Abraham Saul Goldsmith JP – of Wellington. For services to the community.
• Rupert Garth Harris – of Christchurch. For services to diabetics.
• Phyllis Mary Holley – of Dunedin. For services to sport.
• Hugh Janson – of Carterton. For services to speech and drama teaching and the community.
• Robert Dickson Jennings – of Auckland. For services to children.
• Linda Christine Jones – of Cambridge. For services as a jockey.
• Edward Joseph Lynskey – of Wellington. For services as commissioner for the Chatham Islands.
• Rona Iris McCarthy – of Hastings. For services to sport, especially netball.
• Isabelle Vincente Major – of Dunedin. For services to singing.
• Robert Kenneth Malcolm – of Ōpōtiki. For services to the dairy industry.
• Campbell George Paterson JP – of Auckland. For services to philately.
• George Ernest Perry – of Trentham. For services to the community, especially surf lifesaving and water safety.
• John Pym Gray Pring – of Auckland. For services to rugby refereeing.
• Thomas Ram – of Taumarunui. For services to the community.
• Richard Newell Stevenson JP – of Auckland. For services to the Cancer Society of New Zealand.
• Clifford Vincent Tait – of Hamilton. For services to aviation.
• John Osborne Taylor – of Christchurch. For services to horticulture.
• Roi Carl Te Punga – of Wellington; lately assistant director-general, Department of Social Welfare.
• Roy Blount Walker – of Dunedin. For services to the theatre.
• Keith Albert Fabian Wills – of Hamilton. For services to the community.

Military division

• Warrant Officer Radio Electrical Mechanician John Clive Lippross – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Marine Engineering Artificer John Russell Thorburn – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Donald Houlton Crabb – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
• Warrant Officer Class 2 Patt Dillon MM – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Lieutenant and Quartermaster Frederick Sydney Leef – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Warrant Officer Harold Douglas Lazarus – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Benedict Raddock – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Saul Goldsmith
• Rona McCarthy

For community service

• Dorothy Elizabeth Jane Dolan – of Methven.
• Noel Alfred Kidd – of Pukekohe.
• Emily Pehipa Matiu Paki JP – of Huntly.
• Alfred Lorraine Williams JP – of Auckland.

For public services

• Rex Douglas Allen – of Oamaru; mayor of Oamaru.
• John Simeon Blenkhorn – of Levin.
• Wallace Colin Thomas Brunton – of Thames.
• Mervyn Mackie Chisholm MBE – of Blenheim; lately supervisor manager, Molesworth Station.
• Lester Laurence Davis – of Wellington; government insurance commissioner since 1973.
• Beryl Overton Howie – of Ludhiana, India; professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana.
• Pita Tipunakore Kaua JP – of Gisborne.
• Edward Conway Keating – of Upper Hutt; government printer since 1976.
• Emere Makere Waiwaha Kaa Mountain JP – of Kawakawa.
• James Humphrey Rose – of Auckland.
• Iver Edgar Trask – of Paraparaumu; lately deputy general manager, New Zealand Railways.

For community service

• George Livingston Baker – of Patea.
• Margaret Alice Mary Bear JP – of Lowry Bay.
• Maude Harriett Lowry Bedingham – of Auckland.
• Kathleen D'bett Cottrell – of Mount Maunganui.
• Audree Clarence Larraine Curtis – of Pukahu.
• Gladys Annie Freeland – of Palmerston.
• Kelvin Robert Gay – of Nelson.
• Olive Victoria Gordon – of Roxburgh East.
• Elsie Grieve – of Dannevirke.
• Rita Henry – of Wairoa.
• Joan Phyllis Irvine – of Dannevirke.
• Everard Stanley Martin Kell – of Auckland.
• Ludwik Kowalczyk – of Petone.
• Nathan Roy Low – of New Plymouth.
• Margaret Anne Lynch – of Rotorua.
• Margaret McDonald – of Tapanui.
• Herbert Walter North JP – of Tokanui.
• Robert Allen Rogers – of Hamilton.
• Annie Schuler JP – of Auckland.
• George Alexander Telfer – of Ōtorohanga.
• Phyllis Ada Thomason – of Motueka.

For public services

• Dr Deidre Morag Airey – of Coromandel.
• Alfred George Barwell – of Dunsandel.
• Thomas Edward Bowe – constable, New Zealand Police.
• Isabel May Charles JP – of Silverstream.
• Russell Harold Coombe – of Auckland.
• Josephine Corbett – of Thames; lately supervising principal nurse, Thames Hospital Board.
• Eileen Vera Crosby JP – of Hāwera.
• William Thomas Earley – of Invercargill.
• Warren John Ellis – of Taupō.
• Joseph Grbavac – of Kumeū.
• Peter James Hurley – of Kotemaori; line ganger, Electricity Division, Ministry of Energy.
• Lorna Winifred Leman – of Pukekohe.
• Alexander James Leyland – constable, New Zealand Police.
• Michael Lawrence Moloney – of Hastings.
• Stanley Tetekura Newton JP – of Rotorua.
• Phyllis Margaret Rolls – of Masterton.
• Patricia Anne Rowell – of Timaru.
• Francis Leslie Smith JP – of Blenheim.
• John Walker – of Waitahuna.

Associate (ARRC)

• Captain Bruce Derby Rennie – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.