The 1963 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states durin ...

, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 8 June 1963. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Knight Bachelor

Gilbert Edward Archey Sir Gilbert Edward Archey (4 August 1890 – 20 October 1974) was a New Zealand zoologist, ethnologist, World War I officer, and museum director. He wrote one of the major works on the moa, based on his own field work and collection. He also pu ...

– director of the

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. File:Gilbert Archey in 1927 (cropped).jpg, Sir Gilbert Archey

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

* Arthur Egbert Davenport – lately general manager of the

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. * William Percy Gowland – of

Nelson Nelson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers * ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...

; professor emeritus of anatomy,

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Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

;Civil division * John Andrew – of Hyde. For public services.

Commander (CBE)

;Civil division * Herbert Myer Caselberg – of

Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by ...

. For services to land settlement and agriculture. * James Deans – of

Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of t ...

. For services to local government, agriculture and forestry. * Alexander McGregor Grant – of

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...

. For services to medicine and racing. * Jack Newman – of Nelson. For services to tourism in New Zealand. ;Military division * Air Commodore William Hector Stratton –

Royal New Zealand Air Force The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) ( mi, Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa, "The Warriors of the Sky of New Zealand"; previously ', "War Party of the Blue") is the aerial service branch of the New Zealand Defence Force. It was formed from New Zeal ...

Officer (OBE)

;Civil division * Leonard Frederick de Berry – of

Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon Rive ...

. For services to music and education. * Alec Sugden Farrar. For services to the community, especially as president of the Christchurch

Returned Services' Association The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association, best known simply as the RSA, is one of the largest voluntary welfare organisations in New Zealand and one of the oldest ex-service organisations in the world. Wounded soldiers returni ...

. * Harold Robert Holt – president of the Hawke's Bay and East Coast Art Society. * Colin Robert Horsley – concert pianist. For services to music. * Leonard James Tobin Ireland – of

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

. For services to local-body administration. * Hamana Mahuika – of

Tikitiki Tikitiki is a small town in Waiapu Valley on the north bank of the Waiapu River in the Gisborne Region of the North Island of New Zealand. The area in which the town resides was formerly known as ''Kahukura''. By road, Tikitiki is north-northeast ...

. For services to the

Māori people The Māori (, ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several ce ...

. * Leyon Miall Moss – chairman of the New Plymouth High School board. * Leslie Walter Stewart – formerly rector of

St Andrew's College, Christchurch St Andrew's College, also known as StAC, in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a private, co-educational school that enrols from pre-school to secondary Year 13. It was founded in 1917 and it is the only independent, co-educational primary and sec ...

. * John Tait – of

Invercargill Invercargill ( , mi, Waihōpai is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. The city lies in the heart of the wide expanse of t ...

. For services to local government and the Returned Services' Association. * Ellenor Catherine Watson – Dominion president of the Women's Division of the

Federated Farmers Federated Farmers of New Zealand is a lobby and advocacy group for all farmers: arable including fruit and vegetables, dairy and meat and their often remote communities. It has a network of 24 regional organisations and six industry groups. Fed ...

. ;Military division * Surgeon Commander (D) Alexander Colin Horne –

Royal New Zealand Navy The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN; mi, Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa, , Sea Warriors of New Zealand) is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of nine ships. The Navy had its origins in the Naval Defence Act ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Wallace Bateman – 1st Divisional Signals Regiment (Territorial Force). * Group Captain Arthur Percy Gainsford – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

;Civil division * Prudens Lillian Burrowes Blunden – of

Waikari Waikari is a small town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Its Anglican parish church is the Church of Ascension, 79 Princes Street, Waikari, where William Orange was vicar in the 1920s. The New Zealand Ministry for Cult ...

. For social-welfare services. * Edward James Bradshaw – a former mayor of

Riccarton Riccarton may refer to: New Zealand * Riccarton, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch ** Riccarton (New Zealand electorate), the electorate named after it ** The location of Riccarton Race Course * a locality on the Taieri Plains in Otago Scotlan ...

. * Nora Kathleen Braithwaite – of

Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilt ...

. For services to the community. * Gordon Leonard Brown – of Auckland. For services with the

St John Ambulance St John Ambulance is the name of a number of affiliated organisations in different countries which teach and provide first aid and emergency medical services, and are primarily staffed by volunteers. The associations are overseen by the internat ...

movement. * William Alexander Gault – of

Ōpōtiki Ōpōtiki (; from ''Ōpōtiki-Mai-Tawhiti'') is a small town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. It houses the headquarters of the Ōpōtiki District Council and comes under the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Ge ...

. For services to local government. * Wilfred Douglas Gorman – of Wellington. For services to the community, especially in connection with the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps (Search and Rescue Organisation). * Jessie Jackson – a librarian at Her Majesty's New Zealand Dockyard in Auckland. * Mavis Gwendolen Kealy – of Auckland. For services to local government and social welfare. * Alfred Sydney Kinsman – of

Timaru Timaru (; mi, Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located southwest of Christchurch and about northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to ...

. For services to local government. * Robert McCallum – major,

Salvation Army Salvation (from Latin: ''salvatio'', from ''salva'', 'safe, saved') is the state of being saved or protected from harm or a dire situation. In religion and theology, ''salvation'' generally refers to the deliverance of the soul from sin and its c ...

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, Auckland. * Archibald Aloysius McDonald – of Ashburton. For services to local government. * Mary Ellen Reid – of

Greymouth Greymouth () (Māori: ''Māwhera'') is the largest town in the West Coast region in the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the Grey District Council. The population of the whole Grey District is , which accounts for % of the West Coas ...

. For social-welfare services, especially in connection with women and children. * Wilfrid Aaron Rushton – mayor of

Morrinsville Morrinsville is a provincial town in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island, with an estimated population of as of The town is located at the northern base of the Pakaroa Range, and on the south-western fringe of the Hauraki Plains. ...

. * Gladys Anne Sandford – matron of the

Lower Hutt Lower Hutt ( mi, Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai) is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. It is New Zealand's sixth most p ...

Maternity Annexe. * Willis Alan Scaife – of

Wānaka Wānaka () is a popular ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. At the southern end of Lake Wānaka, it is at the start of the Clutha River/Mata-Au and is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park. ...

. For services to farming. * Harold Reginald Street – of

Taumarunui Taumarunui is a small town in the King Country of the central North Island of New Zealand. It is on an alluvial plain set within rugged terrain on the upper reaches of the Whanganui River, 65 km south of Te Kuiti and 55 km west of ...

. For services to local government. * Herbert Lea Towers – of Auckland. For services to athletics, especially in connection with the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association. * Ronald Philip Wakelin –

mayor of Carterton The Mayor of Carterton is the mayor of the Carterton District, which is administered by Carterton District Council, and earlier the office oversaw the Carterton Borough from 1887 until 1989, when Carterton Borough and Wairarapa South County were ...

. * Gwendoline Edna Borrie Wilson – matron of Ashburn Hall, Dunedin. ;Military division * Lieutenant Commander (SP) (temporary) Peter Maxwell Sanders –

Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve The Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNZNVR) is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). History Early history The first Naval Volunteer units were formed in Auckland and Nelson in 1858. Over the rest of th ...

. * Major Frederick Arthur Gunn – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force). * Warrant Officer Class II Ronald Ivan Keat – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force). * Honorary Captain Frederick Barry Smyth –

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(Territorial Force). * Major Richard Stanley-Harris – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force). * Squadron Officer Joyce Eileen Peat –

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. * Warrant Officer Herbert Edwards – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

* Charles Edward Peek – superintendent, Child Welfare Division,

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. * Charles William Oakey Turner – lately engineer-in-chief,

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British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Civil division, for gallantry * Raymond Piper – ambulance driver, Auckland. For courage at the time of a shooting tragedy in the Auckland district. * Joseph Walker – constable,

New Zealand Police The New Zealand Police ( mi, Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa) is the national police service and principal law enforcement agency of New Zealand, responsible for preventing crime, enhancing public safety, bringing offenders to justice, and maintai ...

, Auckland. For courage at the time of a shooting tragedy in the Auckland district. ;Civil division * Edward Fitzgerald Barry – constable, New Zealand Police, Auckland. ;Military division * Shipwright Artificer 1st Class Oliver Maxwell Cox – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Chief Radio Electrical Artificer Cyril Neil Jeffries – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Chief Petty Officer Gordon Thomas Lawrence – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Chief Radio Electrician Kenneth Robinson – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Staff-Sergeant Clifford Melrose Kennedy – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force). * Staff-Sergeant Gavin Stanley Milne –

Royal New Zealand Engineers The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers is the administrative corps of the New Zealand Army responsible for military engineering. The role of the Engineers is to assist in maintaining friendly forces' mobility, deny freedom of movement to the ...

(Territorial Force). * Warrant Officer Class II (temporary) John O'Brien – Royal New Zealand Signals (Regular Force). * Sergeant Geoffrey Millard Castle – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Sergeant Edward Sims – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Squadron Leader Donald Benjamin Pollard – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Arthur David Malcolm Winkelmann – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

* Charles Edward Tanner – chief inspector, New Zealand Police.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

* Flight Lieutenant Frederick Barry Flavall – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

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