1960 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• George Douglas Robb – a consulting surgeon, of Auckland.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Rear-Admiral John Michael Villiers – lately on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• The Honourable Eruera Tihema Tirikatene – Minister of Forests, Minister in charge of the Government Printing and Stationery Department, and Associate to the Minister of Maori Affairs.

  Companion (CMG)

• George Manning – of Christchurch. For services to education and local government.
• Robert McKeen – of Otaki. For services in public affairs as a trade unionist, Member of Parliament, and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

  Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

• Samuel Thompson Barnett – Secretary for Justice and Controller-General of Prisons, Department of Justice.
• Michael Connelly – of Dunedin. For services in the field of local government.
• Alfred Hayward – deputy chairman of the Dairy Board.
• The Honourable Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II – prime minister of Western Samoa.

• Captain Gillespie Hume Edwards – Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve.

  Officer (OBE)

• Francis Cornelius Allerby – of Levin. For public services.
• Hugh Richard Jarvis Donald – a medical practitioner, of Christchurch.
• Lewis Edward Harris – of Puketapu. For philanthropic and social-welfare services, especially in the interests of handicapped children.
• Charles John Hayward – a member of the Dunedin City Council.
• Frederick Arthur Kitchingham – Crown solicitor, Greymouth.
• Leslie John McDonald – in recognition of his services as director of the New Zealand Standards Institute, and to education.
• Mamea Matatumua – lately acting Secretary for Samoan Affairs, Western Samoa.
• Bertram Henry Olsson – director of the Naval Research Laboratory, Auckland.
• Ihaia Porutu Puketapu – of Lower Hutt. For social welfare services to Māori youth.
• Norman Hargrave Taylor – director of the Soil Bureau.
• Harry Hugo Tombs – of Wellington. For services to art and music.

• Commander David Lennox Millar – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Lumsden Wood – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps.
• Wing Commander Ivan Reid Mitchell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Robert William Stanley Botting – of Dunedin. For services in local-body affairs and to sport.
• Walter Godfrey Bowen – chief shearing instructor to the New Zealand Wool Board.
• Margaret Elizabeth Callan – of Auckland. For community services, especially through the Crippled Children's Society.
• The Reverend John Gilman Sharp Dunn – president of the CORSO Council and clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
• Archer Garside – of Onehunga. For services to local government.
• Mabel Winifred Gunn – matron of the Whataroa Hospital, South Westland.
• George Alfred Harris – mayor of Temuka]. For municipal and patriotic services.
• Andrew Jacob Haub – of New Plymouth. For services in connection with New Zealand justices of the peace.
• Lucy Eva Johnston – matron of the Abbotsford Home for Boys and Girls, Waipawa, and matron-in-charge, St Hilda's Home.
• Mabel Elizabeth Jolly – of Cromwell. For services to education, especially through the Correspondence School Parents' Association.
• Ivy Hazel Fletcher Jones – secretary-manager, Auckland Methodist Children's Home and Orphanage.
• David Erskine Sinclair Mason – engineer to the Southland Harbour Board.
• George Miller – of Wellington. For services to the community, especially amongst young people, and in the field of sport.
• Donald George Alfred Munro – of Wellington. For services to music.
• Oscar Gerald Smith – of Wellington. For services rendered under the auspices of the Returned Soldiers' Association.
• Eileen Hannah Spencer – of Palmerston North. For social-welfare services.
• Hone Te Kauru Taiapa – of Rotorua. For cultural services to the Māori people, especially in the field of wood carving.

• Warrant Officer First Class Neville William Faithful – New Zealand Regiment.
• Major Ronald Norman Griggs – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Warrant Officer Second Class George Tom Holden – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Major Douglas Ronald Orange – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Major and Quartermaster Gordon William Stanley – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
• Flight Lieutenant William Francis Reece Jackson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Robert Thomas Francis Lewis – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Kenneth John Caverhill – lately director of the State Advances Corporation.
• Edward Stephen Gale – lately Comptroller of Customs, Customs Department.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Lawrence Gordon – temporary sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.
• George Innes – sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

• Chief Petty Officer Frederick Maurice Glasson – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Petty Officer George Frederick Marshall – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Cook Gerald Victor Baldwin Martin – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Electrical Artificer Robert Thomas Noble Moffat – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff-Sergeant John Arthur Baker – Royal New Zealand Dental Corps.
• Sergeant Douglas Alexander Branks – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps.
• Staff-Sergeant Douglas Donald Hamilton – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps.
• Staff Sergeant Johnston Henry Robert Love – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps.
• Staff Sergeant Alexander George Metcalfe – Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Flight Sergeant William Alexander – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Horace Floyd Williams – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Master Signaller James Alfred Easton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Orme Snow Wilson Power – assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant Colin William Rudd – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Engineer Raymond William Tocker – Royal New Zealand Air Force.