1954 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• David Henry – chairman and managing director, New Zealand Forest Products Limited.
• John Sutherland Ross – of Dunedin, company director. For public services.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Major-General William George Gentry – Chief of the New Zealand General Staff.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Edward Coldham Fussell – governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
• Robert Mafeking Macfarlane – mayor of Christchurch.

  Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

• John Grierson – chairman, Auckland Hospital Board, and a director of the Bank of New Zealand.
• Arthur Grant Harper – Secretary for Internal Affairs.
• The Very Reverend David Craig Herron – chancellor of the University of Otago.
• Philip Patrick Lynch – of Wellington; a prominent pathologist.
• William Yates – Director of Broadcasting.

• Group Captain Reginald William Kennedy Stevens – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Captain Leslie Cecil Boulton – MV Maui Pomare, Island Territories Department.
• Flora Jean Cameron – Director of the Nursing Division, Department of Health.
• Michael Francis Edward Cooney – mayor of Oamaru.
• Victor Caddy Davies – of New Plymouth. For services to horticulture.
• Henry Gillies Livingstone – of Christchurch. For services to local government.
• Claude James Lovegrove – president, Electrical Supply Authorities' Association of New Zealand.
• Charles Isaac Nathan – chairman, Board of Trustees, New Zealand Institute for the Blind.

• Commander Humphrey Leoline Jenkins – Royal Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Alfred Thomas McGuire – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• The Reverend Arthur Russell Allerton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Colonel Maxwell Aldred – of Waiuku. For public services.
• James Edwin Benson – of Gisborne. For services to local government.
• Edith Mary Winstone Blackwell – of Auckland. For social welfare and philanthropic services.
• Ernest Israel Crossman – of Inglewood. For services to the community, especially in connection with St John's Ambulance Association and volunteer fire brigade work.
• Kenneth Waring Dalrymple – chairman, Rangitikei County Council.
• Henry Charles James Gimblett – clerk of the Southland County Council.
• Francis Mortimer Howell Sr. – of Central Otago. For services to the community.
• Stanley James Judd. For services to Pahiatua Borough Council.
• Helen Louisa Mason – of Matamata. For services rendered in connection with patriotic and social welfare movements.
• Arthur Joseph McEldowney – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
• Ivy McIntosh – of Invercargill. For public services.
• Maraea Ngarimu. For social welfare services to the Māori people in the East Coast area.
• Alfred Gordon Nolan – chairman, Wairoa County Council.
• Nora Martha Ross – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
• William Prentice Sommerville – of Wellington. For voluntary services to orphanages and other charitable organisations.
• Rawiri Pehiatea Tatana. For services to the Māori people as an elder and leader of the Ngāti Toa and Ngāti Raukawa tribes.
• John Mark Totich – of Auckland. For social welfare services.
• Mary Herbert Tripp – of Christchurch. For services rendered in connection with patriotic movements.
• Florence Christina Waters – of Hamilton. For social welfare services, especially in connection with the Red Cross and other charitable organisations.
• Edward Rogers Webb – bursar of Christ's College for many years.
• Nancy Wilson. For services as New Zealand Commissioner for Cubs and to scouting.
• Charles Alexander Woolley – superintendent, Wellington City Fire Brigade.

• Senior Commissioned Gunner Ernest Francis Standley – Royal Navy.
• Captain James Conway Brown – Royal New Zealand Artillery. In recognition of services in Korea during the period 28 July 1953 to 31 January 1954.
• Captain Frederick Robert Charles Penn – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• Warrant Officer Second Class George Te Hou – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• Captain and Quartermaster Arthur Wainwright – Supernumerary List, New Zealand Regular Force.
• Flight Lieutenant George Thomas Beban – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard Ian Frederick Hall – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Ernest Claude Adams – lately Registrar-General of Lands and District Land Registrar.
• Cyril Gilbert Reeves McKay – senior New Zealand commissioner, South Pacific Commission; formerly Secretary of Island Territories.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Electrical Artificer John Percival Badger – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Walter Blake – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Steward Robert George Coley – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Allen William Gray – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Reginald Albert Haynes – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Ernest James Rochfort – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Mechanician Herbert William Warner – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Mechanician William Peter Wyatt – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II Ross Pearson Legge – Corps of Royal Engineers; at present serving with the New Zealand Army.
• Staff-Sergeant John Hannay Scott – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• Flight Sergeant William Samuel Charles Boyer – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Myrtle Burns – Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Francis William Diment – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Corporal Raymond Heathcote Bennetts – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Bar to Air Force Cross

• Wing Commander Robert Francis Watson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant James Desmond Washington – Royal New Zealand Air Force.