The 1988 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by
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 during ...
on the advice of the New Zealand government to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1987 and the beginning of 1988, and were announced on 31 December 1987.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
Knight Bachelor
*
John Mokonuiarangi Bennett – of
Havelock North
Havelock North ( mi, Te Hemo-a-Te Atonga) is a town in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand, situated less than 2 km south-east of the city of Hastings. It was a borough for many years until the 1989 reorganisation of local ...
. For services to education.
*
Ronald Alfred Brierley – 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 me ...
. For services to business management and the community.
*
Murray Gordon Halberg – of
Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island (; Māori: ) is the second-largest island (after Great Barrier Island) in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Its ferry terminal in Matiatia Bay at the western end is from the central-city terminal in Auckland.
It is the most pop ...
. For services to sport and crippled children.
* The Honourable (Mr Justice)
James Peter Quilliam – of Wellington; judge of the
High Court.
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File:Murray Halberg ONZ 2009 (cropped).jpg, Sir Murray Halberg
Order of the Bath
Companion (CB)
;Military division
* Air Vice-Marshal Patrick Neville –
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 Zeala ...
;
Chief of Air Staff.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Dame Commander (DCMG)
* The Honourable
(Margaret) Ann Hercus – 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 River / ...
. For public services.
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Companion (CMG)
* Charles Frederick Sutton Caldwell – of Christchurch. For services to education and the community.
* John William Harris Clark – of
Wainuiomata
Wainuiomata () is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island.
Origin of name
The word 'Wainui-o-mata' is a Māori name made up of the words Wai = water, Nui = big, O = of, and Mata – which could refer ...
; Secretary of Trade and Industry.
*
John Thomas Kneebone – of
Tīrau
Tīrau is a small town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand, 50 kilometres southeast of Hamilton. The town has a population of 804 (2018 census). In the Māori language, "Tīrau" means "place of many cabbage trees."
Tīrau ...
. For public services and services to agriculture.
File:John Kneebone (cropped).jpg, John Kneebone
Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander (KBE)
;Civil division
* Professor
Philip John Scott – of
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...
. For services to medicine.
Commander (CBE)
;Civil division
* The Honourable John Philip Cook – of Christchurch; lately a judge of the High Court.
* Emeritus Professor
Lloyd George Geering – of Wellington. For services to religious studies.
* Anne Therese Nightingale – of Auckland. For services to nursing.
* Professor John Derek Kingsley North – of Auckland. For services to medicine.
*
John Hayward Oakley – of
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 ...
. For services to cricket.
*
William Leslie Renwick – of Wellington; Director-General of Education.
* Bernadette Mary Richardson – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
;Military division
* Major-General Kenneth Montrose Gordon – Generals' List,
New Zealand Army
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Officer (OBE)
;Civil division
*
Anthony Gordon Benfell – of Auckland. For services to singing.
*
Ian Barry Brickell – of
Coromandel
Coromandel may refer to:
Places India
*Coromandel Coast, India
**Presidency of Coromandel and Bengal Settlements
** Dutch Coromandel
*Coromandel, KGF, Karnataka, India
New Zealand
*Coromandel, New Zealand, a town on the Coromandel Peninsula
*Coro ...
. For services to pottery and ceramics.
*
Beatrice Mary Joye Evans – of
Palmerston North
Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the ...
. For services to the Girl Guide movement.
* Edward Max Friedlander – 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 the community.
* Dr James Ritchie Gilmour – of Auckland. For services to obstetrics and the community.
*
George Winiata Henare – of Auckland. For services to the performing arts.
*
John Anderson Jamieson –
Deputy Commissioner,
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 ...
.
* Professor
Leslie Kay – of
Russell. For services to electrical and electronic engineering.
*
Fiona Judith Kidman – of Wellington. For services to literature.
* Dr
Michael King – of Auckland. For services to literature.
* Bernard Keith Knowles – of Wellington. For services to the dairy and wool industries.
* Elsie Ngahuia McInnes – of Havelock North. For services to the community.
* Stanley Walter Alexander Ralston – of Wellington; Valuer-General, Department of Valuation. For public service.
*
Gordon William Robert Sharrock – of
Wanganui
Whanganui (; ), also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whangan ...
. For services to cycling.
* Alfred Edward Tarrant – of Wellington. For services to manufacturing.
* Robert John Todd – of Christchurch. For services to trade union affairs and the community.
* Alan John Young – of
Mount Maunganui
Mount Maunganui (, ) is a major residential, commercial and industrial suburb of the Tauranga metropolitan area, located on a peninsula to the north-east of Tauranga's city centre. It was an independent town from Tauranga until the completio ...
. For services to the education of the deaf.
;Military division
* Lieutenant-Colonel James Roland McGregor –
Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment is the parent administrative regiment and corps of regular and reserve infantry battalions in the New Zealand Army. It was originally formed in 1947 with a singular Regular regiment and multiple reserve r ...
(Territorial Force).
* Group Captain Peter James Hughan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
* Group Captain Donald William Pawson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
File:George Henare CNZM (cropped).jpg, George Henare
Member (MBE)
;Civil division
* Ralph Thomas Adams – of
Trentham; lately director of the New Zealand Wildlife Service.
* Byron Buick-Constable – of Wellington. For services to the disabled.
*
Robert Norman Byrne – of
Whakatāne
Whakatāne ( , ) is the seat of the Bay of Plenty region in the North Island of New Zealand, east of Tauranga and north-east of Rotorua, at the mouth of the Whakatāne River. Whakatāne District is the encompassing territorial authority, whi ...
. For services to the community.
* Eric Alexander Craies – of Auckland. For services to rowing.
* Peter McElwain Faulkner – superintendent, New Zealand Police.
*
Josephine Lynette Hartley – of
Kawerau
Kawerau is a town in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of Rotorua. It is the seat of the Kawerau District Council, and the only town in Kawerau Distric ...
. For services to the community.
* George Stanley Derek Heather – 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 local government.
* Marie Alice Hopkins – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
* Edward Patrick Hoult – of Lower Hutt. For services to education.
* George Bendigo Hurst – of
Tākaka
Tākaka is a small town situated at the southeastern end of Golden Bay, at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island, located on the lower reaches of the Tākaka River. State Highway 60 runs through Takaka and follows the river valley b ...
. For services to dairy industry and the community.
* Dr
David Edward Kirk – of
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
, England. For services to rugby.
*
Stanley Arthur Lay – of
New Plymouth
New Plymouth ( mi, Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, Devon from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. ...
. For services to sport.
*
Christopher Paul MacDonald – of Auckland. For services to canoeing.
* Ngaire MacLean – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
* Lawrence Albert Mahoney – of Christchurch. For services to rugby.
* Heather Jean Matthews – of Auckland. For services to athletics.
* Elizabeth Carolyn Miller – 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 the community.
* Thomas Parsonage – of
Huntly
Huntly ( gd, Srath Bhalgaidh or ''Hunndaidh'') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly known as Milton of Strathbogie or simply Strathbogie. It had a population of 4,460 in 2004 and is the site of Huntly Castle. Its neighbouring settlemen ...
. For services to sport and the community.
* Peter Anderson Smith – of Auckland. For services to the community.
* Dr Raymond Harry Spitz – of Auckland. For services to the Hebrew community.
* Victor Michael Sunde – of Auckland. For services to the fruit growing industry.
* John Henry Thorby – of
Tūrangi
Tūrangi is a small town on the west bank of the Tongariro River, 50 kilometres south-west of Taupō on the North Island Volcanic Plateau of New Zealand. It was built to accommodate the workers associated with the Tongariro hydro-electric pow ...
. For services to local government and the community.
*
Grant Leonard Ridgway Tilly – of Wellington. For services to the theatre.
* Leslie Dawson Wright – of
Martinborough
Martinborough ( mi, Wharekaka) is a town in the South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington region of New Zealand. It is 65 kilometres east of Wellington and 35 kilometres south-west of Masterton. The town has a resident population of
The town ...
. For services to local government.
;Military division
* Warrant Officer Kenneth William Last-Harris –
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 ...
.
* Major Jessie Muriel Mary Gunn –
Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport
The Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport (RNZCT) was a corps within the New Zealand Army that provided logistical support to combat and combat support elements of the Army. Tracing its history back to 1910 when the New Zealand Army Service Corps ...
.
* Warrant Officer Class I Denis John King – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
* Warrant Officer Cedric Crosse Shatter – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
File:Stan Lay.jpg, Stan Lay
British Empire Medal (BEM)
;Military division
* Chief Petty Officer Kenneth John Cook – Royal New Zealand Navy.
* Staff Sergeant Matekino Pop Shelford – New Zealand Army.
* Flight Sergeant Dennis William Kelland – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Companion of the Queen's Service Order (QSO)
For community service
* Margaret Dunmore – of Auckland.
* The Very Reverend Kenape Faletoese – of Wellington.
* Beverley Jean Morris – of Wellington.
*
Diggeress Rangituatahi Te Kanawa – of
Te Kūiti
Te Kūiti is a town in the north of the King Country region of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the junction of State Highways 3 and 30 and on the North Island Main Trunk railway, south of Hamilton. The town promotes itself as the ...
.
* Brian William Woodward – 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 ...
.
For public services
*
Bruce Craig Beetham
Bruce Craig Beetham (16 February 1936 – 3 May 1997) was an academic and politician from New Zealand, whose career spanned the 1970s and early 1980s.
A lecturer at Hamilton's University of Waikato and at the Hamilton Teachers' Training Colle ...
– of
Marton.
*
Geoffrey John Geering – of
Ashburton.
* Warren Neil Hawkey – of Lower Hutt; lately Director-General and Surveyor-General, Department of Survey and Land Information.
* Dinah Holman – of Auckland.
* Daniel Mearns Holmes – of
Ōpunake
Ōpunake is a small town on the southwest coast of Taranaki in New Zealand's North Island. It is located 45 kilometres southwest of New Plymouth. Rahotu is 16 km to the northwest. Manaia is 29 km to the southeast. State Highway ...
.
*
Edward Emanuel Isbey – of Auckland.
* Trevor Percival Kelly – of Auckland.
* Daniel Joseph Moran – of
Kemang
Kemang is a neighborhood in southern part of Jakarta, Indonesia. The area is located mostly in Bangka subdistrict of Mampang Prapatan and partly within Pejaten subdistrict of Pasar Minggu. The main area of Kemang is marked by the roads of Kemang ...
, Indonesia.
* Maxwell Keith Mynott Taylor – of
Gisborne.
File:Bruce Craig Beetham.jpg, Bruce Beetham
Queen's Service Medal (QSM)
For community service
* Antony Aylwin Baker – of
Cape Jackson.
* Betty Baker – of Cape Jackson.
*
Elva Lilian Bett – of Wellington.
* Richard George (Peter) Campbell – of Auckland.
* Bruce Edward Dawe – of Christchurch.
* Tiramate Frankie Dennis – of Auckland.
* Euan Evan Dunlop – of Christchurch.
* Margaret Rose Gadson – of Auckland.
* Kathleen Ruby Harris – of Nelson.
* Teripowai Pauline Higgins – of Wainuiomata.
* Philippa Sylvia Howden – of
Masterton
Masterton ( mi, Whakaoriori), a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand, operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a r ...
.
* Marion Rodger Gilchrist Kendrick – of Whakatāne.
* John Frederick George Lawson – of Christchurch.
* Pauline Patricia Leathem – of Christchurch.
* Elsie Maud Lloyd – of
Raumati Beach
Raumati Beach is a beach community on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island; located 60km north-west of Wellington, and about 10 km north of Raumati South. It is immediately to the south-west of the larger town of Paraparaumu. The Maung ...
.
* Christina McAnulty (Sister Christina) – of Christchurch.
* Margaret Clemance McEwen – 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 ...
.
* Doreen Veronica McMahon – of Christchurch.
* Elizabeth June Meade – of Gisborne.
* Frank Ernest Leslie Mitchell – of Christchurch.
* Gertrude Harete (Kahu) Morrison – of
Rotorua
Rotorua () is a city in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The city lies on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua, from which it takes its name. It is the seat of the Rotorua Lakes District, a territorial authority encompass ...
.
* Herbert David Mullon – of New Plymouth.
* Joyce Ellen Nicholson – of
Levin.
* Robert Michael Bertram Oliver – of Wellington.
*
Ramesh Unka Patel – of Auckland.
* Reginald John Perkins – of
Plimmerton
The suburb of Plimmerton lies in the northwest part of the city of Porirua in New Zealand, adjacent to some of the city's more congenial beaches. State Highway 59 and the North Island Main Trunk railway line pass just east of the main shopping an ...
.
*
Paekiomeka Joy Ruha – of Wellington.
* Clifford Smith – of Auckland.
* Leslie Andrews Strong – of Christchurch.
* Elia Taukifaga Tinielu – of
Porirua
Porirua, ( mi, Pari-ā-Rua) a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. The name 'Porirua' is a corruption of 'Pari-rua', meaning "the tide swee ...
.
* The Reverend Sampson Ngatiterauwawe Toia – of
Dargaville
Dargaville ( mi, Takiwira) is a town located in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the bank of the Northern Wairoa River in the Kaipara District of the Northland region. The town is located 55 kilometres southwest of Whangārei. ...
.
* Ray (Rade) Vuksich – of Auckland.
* Colin Vernon Wheeler – of
Oamaru
Oamaru (; mi, Te Oha-a-Maru) is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is south of Timaru and north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway ...
.
* Jeanie Wilson – of Wanganui.
For public services
*
Alister Scott Abernethy – of Lower Hutt.
* Ann Herangi Barham – of
Te Awamutu
Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it. Te Awamutu is located some south of Hamilto ...
.
* Gordon David Bell – of Christchurch; deputy station rescue fire officer, Ministry of Transport.
* Myra Ringa Urunga Berghan – of
Awanui
Awanui is an historical river port in the far north of New Zealand, on the banks of the Awanui River just before it flows into Rangaunu Bay. Awanui lies at the south end of the Aupouri Peninsula in the Far North District Council of the Northla ...
.
* Selina Emily Burrage – of Christchurch.
* Jean Myrtle Caird – of Timaru.
* Jack Critchley – of Wellington; lately chief engineer surveyor and surveyor of ships, Ministry of Transport.
* Stanley Petrie Dawson – senior constable, New Zealand Police.
* Dorothy Millicent Dutton – of Auckland; clinical specialist,
Middlemore Hospital
Middlemore Hospital is a major public hospital in the suburb of Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand. The hospital has approximately 800 beds. There are 24 operating theatres across two sites.
History
In 1943, during World War II, construction comme ...
.
* Maurice Christopher Eathorne – senior constable, New Zealand Police.
* Nell Elizabeth Ehau – of Auckland.
* The Reverend Lawrence Albert Grosse – of Auckland.
* Geoffrey Robert Hammond – of Whangaparaoa.
* William Alfred Hart – of Ashburton.
* Beryl Ena Kelly – of Auckland.
* James Alistair Lindsay – of
Mosgiel
Mosgiel (Māori: ''Te Konika o te Matamata'') is an urban satellite of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand, fifteen kilometres west of the city's centre. Since the re-organisation of New Zealand local government in 1989 it has been inside the Dunedin ...
.
* Frederick Mangnall – of Auckland.
* Brian Ignatius Maybury – of Auckland; head chauffeur, Public Service Garage, NZ Post Ltd, Auckland.
* Annie May Meadowcroft – of Christchurch.
* Kathleen May Munro – of
Port Chalmers
Port Chalmers is a town serving as the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast of Dunedin's city centre.
History
Early Māori settlement
The origi ...
.
* Moeroa O Daniela Iti (Rangi) Oberg – of Christchurch.
* Amusia Patea – of
Atafu
Atafu, formerly known as the Duke of York Group, is a group of 52 coral islets within Tokelau in the south Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa. With a land area of , it is the smallest of the three islands that constitute Tokelau. It is an atoll and su ...
, Tokelau.
* Lyndsay John Proctor – senior constable, New Zealand Police.
* Ngaire Winifred Quennell – of Dunedin.
* Professor Emeritus
Ernest Johnstone Searle – of Whangaparaoa.
* Terence Henry Small – of
Manurewa
Manurewa is a major suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand. It was part of Manukau City before the creation of the Auckland super city in 2010. It is located south of the Manukau, Manukau City Centre, and southeast of Auckland CBD. The subur ...
.
* Robert William Stanic – of Whangaparaoa.
* Archie Cooper Taylor – of Oamaru.
* William MacDonald Taylor – of
Waimamaku
Waimamaku is a village and rural community, based along the banks of the Waimamaku River south of the Hokianga Harbour on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is located in the Far North District and Northland Region on State Highw ...
.
* Basil Phillip Vertongen – of
Foxton.
* John Patrick Wilson – of Marton.
*
Helen Mary Wily – of Christchurch.
File:Alister Abernethy (crop).jpg, Alister Abernethy
Queen's Fire Service Medal (QFSM)
* Desmond Ernest Hide – district commander and chief fire officer,
Cust Volunteer Fire Brigade,
New Zealand Fire Service
The New Zealand Fire Service ( mi, Whakaratonga Iwi, "Service to the People"; also known as the NZFS) was New Zealand's main firefighting body from 1 April 1976 until 1 July 2017 – at which point it was dissolved and incorporated into the new ...
.
* Barrie Maxwell O'Donnell – senior station officer, Volunteer Section, Palmerston North Fire Brigade, New Zealand Fire Service.
* Walter West – fire commander, National Headquarters, New Zealand Fire Service.
Queen's Police Medal (QPM)
* Anthony Miles Letica – inspector, New Zealand Police.
References
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