The 1967 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 during ...

, 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 10 June 1967. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Knight Bachelor

* George Manning – 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, especially to education and local government. File:George Manning, 1938.jpg, Sir George Manning

Order of the Bath

Knight Commander (KCB)

;Military division * Lieutenant-General Leonard Whitmore Thornton – Chief of Defence Staff, New Zealand Armed Forces. File:LC Thornton, 1943 (cropped).jpg, Sir Leonard Thornton

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

* Albert William Liley – 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 valuable services to medicine. * Denzil Anthony Seaver Ward – 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 as Law Draftsman and Compiler of Statutes.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander (KCVO)

* John Valentine Meech – of Wellington.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

;Civil division * Edward Denis Blundell – of Wellington. For services to the legal profession. File:Sir Denis Blundell.jpg, Sir Denis Blundell

Commander (CBE)

;Civil division * James Thomas Andrews – of Wellington. For valuable services in the fields of banking and economic research. * John Sims Meadowcroft – of

Paraparaumu Paraparaumu () is a town in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It lies on the Kapiti Coast, north of the nation's capital city, Wellington. Like other towns in the area, it has a partner settlement at the coast called Paraparaumu Bea ...

. For services to commerce and the textile trade. * Allan Meredith Satterthwaite – of Christchurch. For services to tourism, commercial and financial affairs. * Leonard George Herston Sinclair – of Auckland;

stipendiary magistrate Stipendiary magistrates were magistrates that were paid for their work (they received a stipend). They existed in the judiciaries of the United Kingdom and those of several former British territories, where they sat in the lowest-level criminal ...

. ;Military division * Brigadier Bertrand Reidhaar Bullot – Brigadiers' List (Regular Force).

Officer (OBE)

;Civil division * Hilda Kathleen Birks – 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 valuable services in the field of social and local affairs. * Captain Alexander Royle Champion – harbourmaster of Lyttelton. * Lawson Lysnar Copland Field – of Gisborne. For valuable services to farming. * Albert Hugh Flay – of Christchurch. For services to farming and teaching. * David Forsyth – 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 education. * Alfred George Honnor –

mayor of New Plymouth The Mayor of New Plymouth is the head of municipal government of New Plymouth District, New Zealand. Since the 2022 local elections, the mayor is elected directly using the single transferable vote electoral system; prior to that, first-past-the-p ...

. * Arthur Leigh Hunt – of Wellington. For valuable services to the community. * Frederick Campbell Johnstons – of

Whatawhata Whatawhata, previously also spelt Whata Whata, is a small town in the Waikato region on the east bank of the Waipā River, at the junction of State Highways 23 and 39, from Hamilton. Te Araroa tramping route passes through Whatawhata. Histo ...

. For services to the pastoral industry. * Hēnare Kōhere Ngata – of Gisborne. 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 ...

. * John Addis Redwood – of Auckland. For services to the community, especially in connection with the care of old people. * The Reverend William Morton Ryburn – of Auckland. For outstanding services as Presbyterian missionary and educationist. ;Military division * Commander Neil Dudley Anderson –

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 ...

. * Colonel Tristan Freitas Hegglun –

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). * Wing Commander David Ewan Jamieson –

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 ...

. File:Henare Ngata (cropped).jpg, Hēnare Ngata File:Tristan Hegglun WW2.jpg, Tristan Hegglun

Member (MBE)

;Civil division * James Herries Beattie – of

Waimate Waimate is a town in Canterbury, New Zealand and the seat of Waimate District. It is situated just inland from the eastern coast of the South Island. The town is reached via a short detour west when travelling on State Highway One, the main No ...

. For services to historical research in New Zealand. * Edward Coventry Bydder – 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 the community. * Jessie Duggan Dalgleish – of

Raetihi Raetihi, a small town in the center of New Zealand's North Island, is located at the junction of State Highways 4 and 49 in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. It lies in a valley between Tongariro and Whanganui National Parks, 11 kilometres west ...

. For services to nursing. * Grace Farrell – of Westport. For services to the community. * Frederick Christoph Jurgens – of Bulls. For services to the farming community. * Irene May Casemore Lassen – of Christchurch. For services to music. * William Douglas Lattimore – mayor of Balclutha. * Lionel Deacon Lees – of

Tauranga Tauranga () is a coastal city in the Bay of Plenty region and the fifth most populous city of New Zealand, with an urban population of , or roughly 3% of the national population. It was settled by Māori late in the 13th century, colonised by ...

. For services to the community and local government. * Florence Mary Morton Low – of Wellington. For services to the community in welfare and local-body work. * Sabira Agnes Martin. For services to the community, especially as supervisor of the

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 ...

Occupation Centre, and in the field of education of intellectually handicapped children. * Eric Joseph Naylor – 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 ...

. For services to the community especially as chairman of the Vincent Hospital Board. * Allan North – of

Te Whaiti Te Whaiti or Te Whāiti, formerly called Ahikereru, is a forested area in the Whakatāne District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is at the northern end of the Ahikereru valley – Minginui is at the southern end. T ...

. For services to medicine and to the Māori people. * Ellen Elizabeth Pickering – 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 ...

. For services to the community. * Leslie Bowden Quartermain – of Wellington. For services to the community, especially to youth and to the

New Zealand Antarctic Society New Zealand Antarctic Society was formed in 1933 by New Zealand businessman Arthur Leigh Hunt and Antarctic explorers Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Sir Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958 ...

. * Hubert Arthur Toneycliffe – 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 education and local affairs. * Rose Evelyn Townshend – of Picton. For services to the community and local government. * Ellen Margaret Uttley – 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 the community in welfare and local affairs. * Alice May Walton – of Auckland. For services to nursing. * Edward Wellesley Wise – of Levin. For services to local government, particularly as mayor of

Eastbourne Eastbourne () is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the la ...

Borough Council. ;Military division * Lieutenant Commander Neil Laurence Merrick –

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

. * Major Douglas Jo Dunn – Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Territorial Force). * Captain Lenard Donald Grant – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force). * Captain Maurice David Stanley –

Royal New Zealand Artillery The Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery is the artillery regiment of the New Zealand Army. It is effectively a military administrative corps, and can comprise multiple component regiments. This nomenclature stems from its heritage as an off ...

(Regular Force). * Flight Lieutenant Martin David Burns – Royal New Zealand Air Force (Air Training Corps). * Warrant Officer Collis Litchfield Anderson – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Warrant Officer Roy Edward Spencer – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

* Gordon Owen Lindsay Dempster – lately Director of Public Health.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Civil division, for gallantry * Patrick John O'Donovan – detective sergeant,

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 ...

. For exceptional skill, coolness, perseverance and courage in obtaining a confession of murder from a man who was in possession of a loaded rifle and intermittently threatening to shoot. ;Civil division * David Barrett . For services to the community of Christchurch. * William Reginald Burke . For services to the community of

Kaukapakapa Kaukapakapa is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated in the Rodney ward of the Auckland Region and is around 50 kilometres (31 miles) northwest of Auckland city. State Highway 16 passes through the town, connecting it to Hele ...

. * Jack Davies. For services to the community of Wellington. * Harriet Davy. For services to

Meals on Wheels Meals on Wheels is a programme that delivers meals to individuals at home who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals. The name is often used generically to refer to home-delivered meals programmes, not all of which are actually named ...

scheme in Dunedin. * Allan Percy Farmer – forest ranger,

New Zealand Forest Service The New Zealand Forest Service was originally established in 1919 as the State Forest Service. The State Forest Service changed its name to the New Zealand Forest Service in 1949, at about the same time that the Forests Act of 1949 passed through ...

. * Joan Hopkins Hastings – instructor, Chief Post Office, Auckland. * Herbert James Kerr – coxswain of the

Sumner Sumner may refer to: Places Antarctica * Mount Sumner, a mountain in the Rare Range, Antarctica * Sumner Glacier, southern Graham Land, Antarctica Australia * Sumner, Queensland, suburb of Brisbane New Zealand * Sumner, New Zealand, seaside sub ...

lifeboat. * James Nicholas. For services to the community of Blenheim, especially in connection with hospital visiting. * Te Hiko Miller Ormsby – engineer's assistant, New Zealand Electricity Department. * Albert William Robertson – engine driver, New Zealand Railways. * Bryan James Stewart – detective sergeant, New Zealand Police. ;Military division * Master-at-Arms (Coxswain) Tuta Denny – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Rex Edward Lincoln – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Stores Chief Petty Officer Raymond Herst Smith – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Mechanician First Class Raymond Vernon Stevens – Royal New Zealand Navy. * Sergeant James Michael Benyon –

Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps The Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps (RNZAMC) is a corps of the New Zealand Army, the land branch of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF). The Medical Corps provides for the medical needs of soldiers, such as diagnosing and treating disease ...

(Regular Force). * Staff Sergeant Henry Cherrington – Royal New Zealand Army Education Corps (Regular Force). * Warrant Office Class II (temporary) John Donald Desmond – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force). * Flight Sergeant Albert Desmond McNicol – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Flight Sergeant Christopher Walter Mayes – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Flight Sergeant Alfred Charles Webster – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wallingford – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Brian Kenneth Bassett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

* Fergus Oliver Scott – chief superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

* Squadron Leader Albert Edward Thomson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

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