1966 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• James Wattie – of Hastings. For services to industry and the export trade.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Major-General Walter Sneddon McKinnon – Generals' List, New Zealand Regular Force.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Douglas William Ashley Barker – Secretary to the Treasury.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Livingstone Wilson – of Dunedin. For valuable services to surgery and medical education.

  Order of the British Empire

Dame Commander (DBE)

• Edith Ngaio Marsh – of Christchurch. For distinguished services in the arts, especially writing and theatre production.

  Commander (CBE)

• Francis Malcolm Corkill – of Invercargill. For valuable services to civil engineering.
• John Barnett Darnell – Director-General of the New Zealand Post Office.
• James Clendon Tau Henare – of Motatau. For services to the Māori people.
• Frank Andrew Reeves – of Auckland. For services to aviation.

• Air Commodore Albert Samuel Agar – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Annie Rose Allum – headmistress of the New Plymouth Girls' High School.
• Lewis Edward Henry Baigent – of Nelson. For services to the saw-milling industry and to community affairs.
• Arthur Bartrum Baker – of Leamington. For services to farming in New Zealand.
• The Honourable Thomas Bloodworth – of Auckland. For services to local government.
• James Collins – of Christchurch. For services to cultural and social affairs, especially as chairman of the Pan-Pacific Arts Festival.
• Lionel Corkill – director of the Grasslands Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Keith Wilson Hay – mayor of Mount Roskill.
• Raniera te Tawhiti Kingi – of Rotorua. For services to the Māori people, particularly as secretary of the Arawa Trust Board.
• Jack Meltzer – of Wellington. For services as general secretary of the Police Association and to the community.
• Audrey Alice Hastings Orbell – director of the Division of Nursing, Department of Health.
• Roy Samuel Whiteside. For services to the community, especially as mayor of Waiuku.
• Henry Robert Wise – of Oamaru. For services to the farming industry and the farming community.

• Commander Philip Leslie Bardwell – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Maynard Gurr – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Wing Commander Raymond George Jeffs – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• John Burley Barnett – of Blenheim. For services to local government and to farming, especially the dairying industry.
• Harry Beaumont – lately mayor of Manurewa.
• Dorothy Constance Blomfield – of Hamilton. For services in the fields of social welfare and local government.
• John Frederick Boynton – of Waimana. For services to the Māori people.
• Pearl Doreen Brown – honorary secretary of the Christchurch Ladies' Amateur Swimming and Life-Saving Club.
• Edward George Buckley – superintendent, Auckland Prison.
• Mary Frances Gallagher – of Wellington. For services in the field of pre-school education.
• Hans Charles Hankey – mayor of Gore.
• Margaret Dorothy Hartridge – of Christchurch. For services in the field of cerebral palsy therapy.
• Gordon Stanley Leeder – of Wellington. For services to athletics, especially as president of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association.
• Leslie Cochrane Logan. For services to local government, especially as chairman of Raglan County Council.
• Arthur William Sharland Longley – of Pōrangahau. For services to local government and farming.
• Kenneth William Low – lately mayor of Te Kuiti.
• Alfred Ernest Garfield Lyttle. For services to farming and to community welfare in North Canterbury.
• Archibald Manning – of Timaru. For services to education.
• Eric Wyndham Merewether – of Wanganui. For services to local government and the community, especially in connection with the Returned Services' Association.
• Evelyn Mary Rawlins – of Palmerston North. For services in the field of music for many years.
• The Reverend Alan Douglas Robertson. For services to the community, especially in connection with the Presbyterian Social Services Association of Auckland.
• David Howie Scott. For services to local government, particularly as chairman of the Waitaki County Council.

• Acting Commander William Lambert Rudd – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Donald Richard Kenning – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Major Stanley Redvers McKeon – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Warrant Officer Class I Peter Edward Roberts – Royal New Zealand Dental Corps.
• Major John Lindsay Smith – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Squadron Leader Allen Fisher Lissette – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant William Thomas Saunders – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Percy Moston Outhwaite – Under-Secretary of Mines.
• Harry Parsonage – Secretary of Labour.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Albert John Haines – second officer, Auckland Prison. For courage and devotion to duty during riots in Auckland Prison.
• Cornelis Hofker – instructor, Auckland Prison. For courage and devotion to duty during riots in Auckland Prison.
• Frank Poultney – first officer, Christchurch Prison. For courage and devotion to duty during prison riots in Christchurch.
• Alan Alexander Thomson – officer, Paparua Prison, Christchurch. For courage and devotion to duty during prison riots in Christchurch.

• Muriel Alice Brendon. For services in connection with Children's Health Lunch Service.
• Cyril Patrick Burns – detective, New Zealand Police Force.
• Bertram William Churchill – captain, Volunteer Fire Police Corps, Wellington.
• Christina Patricia Forbes – matron, Special School, Otekaieke, Oamuru.

• Chief Petty Officer Jack Hern Baigent – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Engine Room Artificer John Robert Howe – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Signalman Leslie Clifford Thorpe – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Electrician Harold Ernest Vincent – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Eric Ball – New Zealand Special Air Service.
• Sergeant William Frederick Giles – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Corporal Iain Cameron McFarlane – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Flight Sergeant John Campbell Jekyll – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Russell Hewitt Thompson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant William Elwin Larking – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Robert Bruce Craigie – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader John Alan Scrimshaw – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• James Ludwig Graham – chief superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.
• Joseph Geoffrey Long – detective senior sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.