1965 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

• The Right Honourable Walter Nash. For political and public services.

  Knight Commander (KCMG)

• The Honourable William Stanley Goosman. For political and public services.

  Companion (CMG)

• Cuthbert Stuart Hogg. For services to sport and administration, especially as chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union and chairman of the New Zealand Tariff and Development Board.
• The Right Reverend William John Simkin – formerly Bishop of Auckland. For services to the community.

  Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

• Archibald Douglas Burns – Auditor-General.
• Eric Frederick D'Ath – lately professor of pathology and medical jurisprudence, Otago Medical School, Dunedin.
• Percival Bernard Marshall – lately general manager, New Zealand Dairy Products Marketing Commission.
• Reginald Charles Frank Savory – of Auckland. For services to local government and technical education.

• Air Commodore Theodore Jasper Maclean de Lange – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Robert Maxwell McKay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• John Atirau Asher – of Taupō. For services to the Māori people.
• Clifford Lyle Bishop – mayor of Eastbourne.
• Percy Charles Edward Brunette. For services to the community, especially, to Nelson Hospital.
• John Gibbs Churchill – lately general secretary of the Post Office Association.
• John Alfred Cushen – of Invercargill. For services to the community.
• Donald George Grant – of Dannevirke. For services to the beef cattle industry.
• Ena Nellie Hollis – matron-in-chief, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton.
• Lloyd Mandeno – of Auckland. For services to engineering.
• Gilbert Murray Rennie – mayor of Palmerston North.
• George Milne Spence – of Blenheim. For services to the community and civil aviation.

• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Josiah Walton – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Whiteacre – Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.

  Member (MBE)

• Donald William Bain – general secretary in New Zealand of the Royal Overseas League.
• Ernest Black – of Balfour. For services to farming.
• William Brown – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
• Robert Edinborough Chamberlain – of Masterton. For services to farming.
• Rosetta Frances Elliott – matron of Oakley Hospital, Auckland.
• William David Harris – of Pahiatua. For services to the dairy industry.
• John Elden Hatchwell – honorary chief instructor of the Taranaki Surf Association.
• Edith Mary Kenwood. For services to the community, especially as president of the Kaikohe Red Cross Society.
• William Roland Pierce Jaques – honorary secretary of the Nelson branch of the Heritage Movement.
• John Frank Johnson – mayor of Whangarei.
• Elizabeth May Martin. For services to the community, especially in connection with the Dominion Federation of New Zealand Country Women's Institutes.
• Margaret Wilson Meikle. For services to the community in Oamaru.
• Leslie Richmond Rex – of Niue. For services as a teacher and official interpreter.
• Nelle Margaret Scanlan – of Paraparaumu Beach. For services to journalism and New Zealand writing.
• Isabel Veronica Shrimpton – secretary of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce and the Christchurch Junior Chamber.
• Vivian Smith – of Taihape. For services to local government.
• Gwendolen Lucy Somerset – of Wellington. For services to pre-school and adult education.
• Mark Wallace – of Hokitika. For services to local government and farming.

• Lieutenant Commander Albert Henry Edginton – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Major William Henry Dyson – Royal New Zealand Signal Corps.
• Warrant Officer Class I Noel Peter O'Dwyer – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Captain Robert Henry O'Leary – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
• Major Ross David Yetton – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Squadron Leader Kelvin Reid Bremner – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer William Perry Sinclair – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Ronald George Trounce Lewis – deputy Director-General of Health.
• Robert Taylor Wright – lately director of the Commodity Division, Department of Industries and Commerce, Wellington.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Robina Olive Lovell – matron, Tauranga Hospital Board's old people's home, Te Puke. For services when a fire broke out in an old people's home.
• Terence Ross Mortensen – constable, New Zealand Police, Wellington. For rescuing three boys overcome by poisonous gas in a tunnel.
• David Bryan John Painter – constable, New Zealand Police, Wellington. For rescuing three boys overcome by poisonous gas in a tunnel.

• Chief Petty Officer Edward James Button – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Thomas Edwin Easterbrook – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Engine Room Artificer First Class Sydney Arthur Phipps – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Master-at-Arms Paul Manchester Tasker – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff-Sergeant Selwyn Lawrence Keane – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Flight Sergeant Ralph Irving Simpson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Corporal Albert Ernest Hardy – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Royal Red Cross

Member (RRC)

• Principal Matron Mary Webster Wilson – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Daniel John Cotton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Brian Stanley-Hunt – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Alphonsus Gerard Quin – assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.
• Claude Alexander Guy McRae – superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.