1962 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout – of Wellington. For services to medicine and to education.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Major-General Leonard Whitmore Thornton – Generals' List, New Zealand Regular Force.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Edwin Lloydd Greensmith – secretary to the Treasury.
• Alexander Paterson O'Shea – general secretary of Federated Farmers of New Zealand.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• Alexander McKenzie – of Auckland. For political services.

  Commander (CBE)

• Charles Croft Marsack – chief judge of Western Samoa.
• David Gordon Bruce Morison – formerly chief judge of the Māori Land Court.
• Carleton Hunter Perkins – of Christchurch. For services to accountancy and education.
• Alfred Hamish Reed – of Dunedin; a publisher and writer of New Zealand historical works.
• Donald Frederick Clifford Saxton – of New Plymouth. For services to journalism.
• John Bird Wright. For services to the New Zealand Island Territories and to Western Samoa.

• Rear-Admiral Peter Phipps – Royal New Zealand Navy.

  Officer (OBE)

• Gustav Frederick Dertag Betham. For services to Western Samoa.
• The Reverend Alan Anderson Brash – general secretary of the National Council of Churches in New Zealand.
• Leicester Mitchell Cook – financial secretary, Western Samoa, 1938–1961.
• Edgar Oliver Faber – of Auckland. For services to the community in local-body and social welfare work.
• Harold Gow. For community services in Western Samoa.
• David Harris – of Invercargill. For local government and trade union services.
• William Henry Kelly – general manager of the Western Samoan Trust Estates Corporation for many years.
• Hugh Drummond Lambie – of Auckland. For services to the dairy industry and to local government.
• Arthur Leslie Lydiard – of Auckland. For services to sport.
• Edward Alan Millward – mayor of Wanganui and chairman of the Wanganui Harbour Board.
• Reupena Pahau Milner – of Gisborne. For services to the Māori people.
• Eugene Friedrich Paul. For services to Western Samoa.
• David Clarence Pryor – of Palmerston North. For services to teaching and local-government affairs.
• Edwin Ian Robertson – director of the Geophysics Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Wilson James Whineray. For services to sport, especially to rugby football.
• Ronald Hugh White – of Hastings. For services to local government.

• Commander Owen Rowland James Skyrme – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Frederick Llewellyn Ward – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps.
• Group Captain Edward George King – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Frederick William Baillee – mayor of Greymouth.
• Andrew Cameron Booth – president of the New Zealand Club in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Ian Donald Arthur Cameron. For services to local-body and sporting affairs.
• Matthew Alexander Carson – general secretary of the New Zealand Returned Services Association.
• Christine Lumsden Cumming – of Invercargill. For services to the community, especially in connection with the youth movement in Southland.
• Arthur John Denz. For services to the community, especially as a member of the Hamilton City Council.
• Russell Andrew Douglas – of Dunedin. For services to the community, especially to elderly people.
• Francis James Foster – of Manawatu. For services to local-body administration.
• Hilda Blair Gardiner – of Oamaru. For social welfare services.
• Edith Gourley – of Wellington. For community services.
• Tapeni Ioelu. For services to education in Western Samoa.
• Ernest Albert Frederick Jenner – of Christchurch. For services to music.
• Thomas Turner Laban – collector of customs, Western Samoa.
• Muipu Maiava – senior inspector, Education Department, Western Samoa.
• Taula Anesi Malaefou – assistant medical superintendent, Apia Public Hospital, Western Samoa.
• James Embury May – assistant director of the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind.
• Charles William Bloomfield Michie, of Kaitaia. For services to farming and local-body affairs.
• David Sceptre Mitchell – mayor of Tauranga.
• Margaret Waita Nichills – of Hamilton. For social welfare services to the Māori people in the Auckland District.
• Irvine James Quigley – of Gisborne. For services to local government and community affairs.
• Hannah Grayson Rogers – brigadier, Salvation Army, Auckland.
• Alan Wilfred Ruskell – of Pahiatua. For services to farming and community affairs.
• Edmond Stehlin – private secretary to the prime minister of Western Samoa.
• Antonie Alison Lovoni Woods – matron of the Wairau Hospital, Blenheim.

• Engineer Lieutenant-Commander George Mitchell – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Clarence Keith Fleming – The Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Major Gavin McCulloch Gray – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps.
• Major Ronald Douglas Patrick Hassett – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.
• Warrant Officer Second Class Alan Ross – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.
• Squadron Leader Harold Bert Hayward – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer John MacDonald – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Amanono – head houseboy, Government House, Western Samoa.
• Ross Charles Anderson – detective sergeant, Criminal Investigation Branch, New Zealand Police Force.
• Momoi Kuresa – matron's assistant, Apia Public Hospital, Western Samoa.
• Thomas Thomson – detective sergeant, Criminal Investigation Branch, New Zealand Police Force.

• Chief Engine Room Artificer Richard Arnold Agnew – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Master at Arms Morris Edwin Bennett – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Stores Chief Petty Officer Herbert Maurice Douglas Pond – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Ordnance Artificer John Charles Tyler – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff-Sergeant Rodney George Evans – The Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Sergeant Gaile Lorraine Holland – New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Staff-Sergeant Robert James Plummer – Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.
• Sergeant Michael Shaun Ryan – The New Zealand Regiment.
• Flight Sergeant John Hope Brown – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant James Eric Rasmusen – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Thomas Joseph Danaher – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Royal Red Cross

Associate (ARRC)

• Matron Joan Gwendoline Woodruff Dickson – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Patrick Kearney – chief superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

  Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM)

• Nathaniel Gordon Buick – chief fire officer, Palmerston North Fire Brigade.
• Norman Leonard Brown – chief fire officer, Pukekohe Fire Brigade.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant John Maxted Terry – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant William Henry Willis – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant James Waiau Karauria – Royal New Zealand Air Force.