1951 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• Thomas Andrew Duncan – of Otairi, Hunterville. For public services, especially in connection with farming.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Air Commodore Sydney Wallingford – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• Wilfrid Joseph Sim – of Wellington. For public services.

  Commander (CBE)

• Thomas Cuddie Brash. For services to the dairy and fruit growing industries.
• James Alfred Nash – of Palmerston North. For public and municipal services.
• Charles Anderson Wilkinson. For public services.

• Commander Guy Tregarthen Millett – Royal Navy.

  Officer (OBE)

• Arthur Barnett – of Dunedin. For patriotic and philanthropic services.
• Stanley Dean – chairman, Fire Boards Association of New Zealand.
• Thomas Gilray – of Napier; a medical practitioner.
• Amy Grace Kane – of Wellington. For social welfare services, especially in connection with women's organisations.
• Alexander Cameron McKillop – of Christchurch. For services to psychiatry.
• Robert James Mills – of Auckland. For services to local government.
• The Reverend Eruera Te Tuhi – Methodist Māori Mission, Auckland.
• Muriel Grace Widdowson – matron, public hospital, Christchurch.
• Montague Harrison Wynyard – of Onehunga. For services as a member of local bodies.

• Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Russell Currie – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Wing Commander Alfred Morton Seafield Manhire – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Fredrick Joseph Ballinger – of the Volunteer Fire Police, Wellington.
• Arthur George Doyly Bayfield – of Wellington. For services to sport.
• Felix Templeton Bellringer – of New Plymouth. For services to local government.
• Madeline Gertrude Brown – of Fendalton, Christchurch. For services to ex-servicemen.
• George Dash – of Waimate. For services to local government.
• Ethel Marianne Gibson – of Christchurch. For services to education.
• Frank Eggar Greenish – of Wellington. For services to architecture.
• James Robert Hardie – of Palmerston North. For services to local government.
• Annie Jane Lyall Henderson – of Invercargill. For social welfare services, especially to the Southland Hospital Board.
• Henrietta Mabel Jackson – of Masterton. For services to the Women's Division, Federated Farmers.
• James Angus Sutherland Mackay – of Whangarei. For services to local government.
• Thomas Mathew McAhan – of Abbotsford, Green Island. For services to local government.
• Alan Mitchell. For services to journalism.
• Cecil Rex Moore – of Auckland. For services to sport.
• Florence Myrtle Neale. For public services in Nelson.
• Sophie Albertha Dupree Rickerby – of Auckland. For social welfare and patriotic services.
• Louis Joseph Vangioni – of Akaroa. For services to Māori ethnology and the community generally.

• Lieutenant-Commander Norman Huia Hope – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Roy Ernest Ansley – senior commissioned gunner, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Leslie Frederick Brooker – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Warrant Officer Class I Norman Sigurd Pedersen – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.
• Warrant Officer Andrew Phillip Henry Lee – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer William Stanley Smith – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Petty Officer Gordon Keith Alexander – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Wren, First Class, Dorothy Pinson – Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
• Chief Electrician John Wyber Jones – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Albert John Lark – New Zealand Regiment.
• Warrant Officer Class II James Hutcheon Swann – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
• Flight Sergeant Donald James Tibbie Pryor – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flight Lieutenant James Patrick O'Donnell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant John Nigel Trolove – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Medal (AFM)

• Pilot 1 Reginald Arthur Geoffrey Plane – Royal New Zealand Air Force.