1946 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• Cecil Arthur Whitney. For services to war industries in New Zealand.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Major-General Norman William McDonald Weir – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Air Commodore Arthur de Terrotte Nevill – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• Peter Henry Buck – director of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and professor of anthropology, Yale University. For services to science and literature.

  Companion (CMG)

• James Rankin Bartholomew – senior stipendiary magistrate, Dunedin.
• Colonel the Honourable Frederick Waite – commissioner overseas for the National Patriotic Fund Board of New Zealand from 1940 to 1946.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• John Rankine Brown – professor of classics, Victoria University College, Wellington. For services to education.

  Commander (CBE)

• Edwin Dudley Good – lately Comptroller of Customs, New Zealand.
• Robert McPherson – Wheat and Flour Controller, New Zealand.
• John O'Shea – of Wellington. For services to local government in New Zealand.
• Tom Lakin Paget – formerly director of maternal welfare, Health Department, New Zealand.
• Carl Victor Smith – president of the Manufacturers' Association, and a member of the Economic Stabilization Commission, New Zealand.

• Commander Ralph Newman – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Acting Air Commodore Maurice William Buckley – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Christopher Thomas Aschman – chairman, Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, New Zealand. For services to education.
• Roy Matthew Vining Brasted – national secretary, New Zealand Young Men's Christian Association.
• Walter Edmund Leadley – general secretary, Returned Servicemen's Re-establishment League, New Zealand.
• Donald McPhee – member of the Board of Trustees, New Zealand Institute for the Blind, and of the Executive of the New Zealand Blinded Soldiers Association.
• Doris Emily Menzies – matron, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton.
• Mary Louise Roberts – head of the Massage Department, Otago University Medical School.
• Walter Sneddon Robertson – orthopaedic surgeon, Wellington Public Hospital.
• Thomas James Sherrard – assistant clerk of the Executive Council, New Zealand.
• Charles Victor Smith – chairman, Otago Joint Council of the Order of St John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society during the war.
• James Archibald Valentine – chairman of the Education Board, Taranaki.

• Acting Commander Ernest Walter Garner – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Surgeon Commander Arnold Perry – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Leonard Guy Brown – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent James Innes – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Todd Maxwell – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Septimus Trainer Owen – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Sharp – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Acting Group Captain Charles Campbell Hunter – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Group Captain Eric Gordon Moore – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Donald Charles Campbell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Kenneth James Crichton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Peter Alister Matheson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Ian Alastair Scott – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Geoffrey Cyril Ellis – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader. Alfred Benjamin Lindop – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader George Arthur Tillson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Hector James Aekins – secretary, Auckland Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Club. For services in connection with patriotic and social welfare movements.
• Alexander Francis Ritchie Crawford – a prominent medical practitioner of Invercargill.
• Alfred Hugh Crawley – chairman, Nelson City Patriotic Controlling Committee.
• Edith Mary De Castro – of Te Kuiti. For services in connection with patriotic organisations.
• Edward Gibbard – mayor of Dannevirke. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• John Black Grant – of Dunedin. For services in connection with patriotic and social welfare movements.
• Theresa Green – of Christchurch. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• John Athol Gregor – of Christchurch. For services to patriotic organisations.
• Fred Bennett Katene – of Wellington. For services in connection with the Māori war effort.
• David Ferguson Mackay – a member of the Auckland branch of the Order of St John and Joint Council Executive.
• Florence Isobel McBride – of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare work during the war.
• Captain Harold Hilton Sergeant – harbourmaster at Auckland for 33 years.
• Irene May Leonora Taylor – head of the Voluntary Aids, Order of St John, Wellington.

• Lieutenant Frederick Kendall Gibson – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Temporary Lieutenant Fred Govsky – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Commander Ronald Francis Hull – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Temporary Acting Electrical Lieutenant-Commander Edward John Marklew – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Captain George Edward Cox – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major John William Fletcher – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Christopher Henry Gallagher – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Subaltern Daisy Isaacs – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Major Alfred George Lowry – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain Horace Maddocks – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain James Malcolm – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain James Leslie Napier – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant John Hill Skinner – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain Ernest Smith – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major John Vincent – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Gerald Harcort Weir – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Squadron Leader Owen Evans – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader James William Aston – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Jack Garrance Dunstan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader John Harold McFadden – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Sheard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader John William Todd – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Maui John Hanslip Bruorton – Royal New Zealand Air Force,
• Flight Lieutenant Cecil George Burr – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant William Francis Falvey – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Deryck Milne – Royal Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Ivan Sidney Rockell – Royal.New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant George Kemp Taylor – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Flight Lieutenant Bruce William Thomas Richards – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Douglas Enoch Wood – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Ernest Charles Calcinai – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Wren First Class Dorothy Jenaway Davis – Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
• Leading Writer James Morell Dickson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer De Lacy Albert Graham-Cameron – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Stoker Edward Searle Mason – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer Cook Cecil Ralph Burnett Tamplin – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Rigger Cromwell Weston – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff-Sergeant Fanny Eva Grace Arndt – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Staff-Sergeant Phyllis Myrtle Gerard – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Staff-Sergeant Robert Joseph Harris – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff-Sergeant Ernest Roy Redding – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Warrant Officer Class II John Stuart Robertson – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff-Sergeant William Alexander Sammons – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Acting Warrant Officer Ian McLean Miller – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Graham Carter – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Albert Kerridge – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Whyte – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Flight Sergeant Maurice Alexander Dixon – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Flight Sergeant Francis Bertram Weldon – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Senior Sergeant Margaret Jane Gerrie – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
• Sergeant David Spencer Giffin – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Katherine Ellen O'Brien – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
• Corporal Elizabeth May Robinson – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

  Royal Red Cross

Associate (ARRC)

• Charge Sister Christina McDonald – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
• Charge Sister Amy Marion Miller – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
• Charge Sister Sarah Eileen Georgina Sherrard – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Wing Commander Ronald Affleck Kirkup – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader William Keith Paterson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Albert Samuel Agar – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant William Robert Esquilant – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant James Thomas Adams Harris – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant John Samuel Shephard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer John Phillip Wilson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Mention in Despatches

• Wing Commander George Henry Fisher – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Albert Tom Giles – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Donald Edward Grigg – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Congreve John Banwell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Francis James Auchmuty Fulton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Donald George Sinclair – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader John Henley James Stevenson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Terence Aickin – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant John Percival Conyers-Brown – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Trevor Alfred Gallagher – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant William James Eglington Vernon Grace – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Donald Ernest Hopwood – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer John Dickson Fergusson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer George Alexander Folster – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Hew Seton Montgomerie – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Howard Cattle Mullenger – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Robert Hume Regnault – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Oswald Ernest Eames – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Stanley George Fagen – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Francis Joseph Stewart – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Corporal Frederick Keith Davies – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Corporal Kenneth Pearson McKay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Leading Aircraftman Ronald Stanley Walters – Royal New Zealand Air Force.