1955 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• Mr Justice Arthur Tyndall – judge of the Court of Arbitration.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Commodore Sir Charles Edward Madden – Royal Navy.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• George Thomas Bolt – chairman of the Public Service Commission.
• Stronach Paterson – of Wellington. For public services.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• The Honourable Walter James Broadfoot – lately Postmaster-General and Minister of Telegraphs.

  Commander (CBE)

• George William Clinkard. For services as secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce and as a member of the Board of Trade.
• Alexander Robert Entrican – Director of Forestry.
• Andrew Sinclair Sutherland. For public services.
• James Leslie Allan Will – of Christchurch; an orthopaedic surgeon.

• Group Captain Francis Ross Dix – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Kenneth Curtis Aekins – of Mount Roskill. For services to the community.
• Walter Edwin Bate – of Hastings. For services to local government.
• Victoria Amohau Bennett – a chieftainess of the Te Āti Awa tribe. For services to the Māori people.
• Thomas Murray Charters – of Christchurch. For services to local government and in connection with social welfare movements.
• Roberts Mathew Firth – Tourist Commissioner and Her Majesty's consul-general for New Zealand at San Francisco.
• Frederick Willie Freeman – a civil engineer of Christchurch.
• John Norman Millard. For services to education and sport, especially rugby football.
• The Reverend Alexander Thomas Thompson. For services to the community, especially in connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society and St Andrew's Boys' College, Christchurch.
• Henry Toogood – a consulting engineer of Wellington.

• Lieutenant-Colonel John Bryden Harrison – New Zealand Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Anderson Lindell – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Wing Commander Percival Patrick O'Brien – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Henry Albert Anderson. For services to local government, especially as mayor of Mount Albert.
• Charles Frederick Bennett – of Auckland. For social welfare services.
• Elfie Sarah Masters Boyle – president of the New Zealand Private Hospitals Association.
• Mabel Alice Buckley – of Devonport, Auckland. For social welfare services.
• Charles Collins – of Wellington; city organist and treasurer of the City Council.
• Catherine Wishart Doctor. For social welfare services, especially as president of the New Zealand Free Kindergarten Union and of the Wellington Association.
• Olive Marion Fairbairn – of Dunedin. For social welfare services.
• John Farrell – of Auckland. For services to the stage.
• Lilian Ada Hill. For services as a public health nurse and nurse inspector.
• Sidney Edward Langstone. For services to the St John Ambulance Association at Auckland.
• Jessie Iris Martin. For services to nursing, and especially as matron of the Cook Hospital, Gisborne.
• Gladys Irene McDonald – of Dunedin. For social welfare services.
• Jane McDougal – of Wanganui. For social welfare services.
• Nellie Eileen O'Callaghan. For services in connection with the Blinded Servicemen's Trust Board and as matron of the Rawhiti Surgical Hospital, Auckland.
• Ernest John Osborne – of Birkenhead. For service to local government.
• The Reverend William John Robertson – chaplain to the Presbyterian Social Service Association of Southland.
• Elsie Smith – a nurse in the Maori Anglican Mission, Koriniti, Whanganui River, for 25 years.
• Roy Hunter Stevenson – of Dunedin. For social welfare services.
• Roderick Syme – of Hawera. For services as an agricultural instructor and in fostering mountaineering.
• Herbert Edward Walters – of Kerikeri. For services to local government and in connection with land development.
• Alfred Graeme Cooke Yarborough. For services to local government in Hokianga.

• Senior Commissioned Master-at-Arms Jack Alan Cameron – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Eric Rowland Firth – New Zealand Regiment.
• Warrant Officer Class II Alfred Benjamin Parkes – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Major Godfrey Henry Stace – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Leonard Herbert Forster – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Eric Wilson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Cyril Benjamin Hill – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Russell Gladstone Dick – surveyor-general, Lands and Survey Department.
• Robert Drane Steel – private secretary to the Minister of Agriculture.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Kenneth Peter Illsley – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer John Burnham Martin – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Writer Brian Calvert Turnbull – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Engineering Mechanic Roy William Broderick Waide – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Brown – Royal New Zealand Infantry (Territorial Force

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flying Officer Gordon Harry Saywell Tosland – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Warrant Officer Anthony Francis Whistler Mason – Royal New Zealand Air Force.