1965 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• Professor Edward George Sayers – dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Otago.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Air Vice-Marshal Ian Gordon Morrison – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• George Burns – of Christchurch. For services to journalism.
• John Thomson Gilkison – Commissioner of Works.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• William Alfred Stevenson – of Auckland. For services to the community.

  Commander (CBE)

• William Henry Cooper – of Auckland. For services to education.
• Percy Dowse – mayor of Hutt City.
• Alister Murray Linton – mayor of Rotorua.
• Ernest Richard Toop – of Wellington. For services to local government.

• Brigadier Robert Boyd Dawson – New Zealand Regular Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Arthur Dudley Carson – director of the Fields and Marginal Lands Divisions, Department of Lands and Survey.
• Bertie Victor Cooksley – of Masterton. For services to the community.
• Donald Alexander Finlayson – of Northland. For services to the dairy industry.
• Alexander Kirkpatrick – of Hastings. For services to local government.
• Grant Raglan Milne – of Wellington. For services in the field of engineering, particularly as president of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers.
• Lawrence David Jose Nathan – of Auckland. For services to the community in the fields of philanthropy and local government.
• Robert Steele Pearson – superintendent of the Youth Centre, Prisons Department, Waikeria.
• Morton Sommerville Rennie – of Auckland. For services to agriculture.
• Peter George Snell – of Auckland. For his outstanding achievement in the field of athletics.
• Winifred Sarah Train – lately matron, Palmerston North Public Hospital.
• Frederick Turnovsky – of Wellington. For services in the field of music.

• Commander John Malcolm Fielder – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Rodney Ingle – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.
• Wing Commander Melville Harry Scott Innes-Jones – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Victor Maxwell Anderson – of Eketāhuna. For services to local government.
• Edward Stuart Bibby – of Waipawa. For services to the community.
• Ada Clark – of Auckland. For services to the Missions to Seamen Harbour Lights Guild.
• Cyril James Cox. For services to the community, especially as chairman of the Nelson Health Camp Committee.
• Leo Vernon Farthing – of Timaru. For services to local government and welfare organisations.
• Hubert Menary Hammond – of Hamilton. For services to local government and horticulture.
• David Livingstone Holmes. For community welfare services, especially as chairman of the Chatham Islands County Council.
• Bruce Hutchen – of Taranaki. For services to the community.
• Laura May Cook Ingram – of Motueka. For services in the fields of community welfare and local government.
• Herbert George Kemp – of Ashburton. For services to local government and the community.
• Mabel Mahinarangi Kewene – matron, Te Puia Springs Hospital, Gisborne.
• Thomas McKenzie – of Invercargill. For services to farming.
• Albert Henry Nees – of Blenheim. For services to local-body affairs.
• Edward Herbert Raymond – mayor of Te Puke Borough Council.
• William John Richards – mayor of Hokitika.
• Te Kiato Riwai – of Christchurch. For services as a welfare officer to the Māori people.
• Martin Sydney Stanley Smith – deputy mayor of Wanganui.
• Ernest Wilfred Turner – of Auckland. For services to local government.

• Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Thomas Henry Logan – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class I Jack Douglas Flowerday – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Major James Frederick Moodie – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
• Squadron Leader Herbert Keele Horne – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Laurie Alexander Anderson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Brian Elliott Nye – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Andrew Robert McFarlane – constable, New Zealand Police. For arresting a mentally unbalanced man armed with a rifle.
• Donald Kinloch White – sergeant, New Zealand Police. For arresting a mentally unbalanced man armed with a rifle.

• James Gordon Mearns – station maintenance overseer, Ministry of Works Staff, Royal New Zealand Air Force Station Hobsonville.
• Hector Redvers Sear – chief guide, Waitomo Caves.
• Archibald Frederick Williams – group scoutmaster, 1st Karori Group.

• Chief Petty Officer Writer Frederick Cozens – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Electrician Michael John Patrick Headley – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Radio Electrical Artificer Peter George Saunders – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer John Stokes – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant John Lawrence Rogers Lydiate – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Staff-Sergeant John David Anson Wright – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Flight Sergeant Maurice Alan Conroy – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant James Walter Findlay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Royal Red Cross

Associate (ARRC)

• Matron Iris Frazer – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Edmund Chester Arundel – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant William Edmund Hugh Bromley – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM)

• Leslie Roy Joseph Osmond – chief fire officer, Christchurch Fire Brigade.
• Hector Edward Braggins – lately third officer, Masterton Fire Brigade.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• William Smith Craigie – assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.
• Henry Mark Holmes – detective chief superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flying Officer Gerald Ayre – Royal New Zealand Air Force.