1967 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable George Innes McGregor – senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
• Harvey Turner – of Auckland. For services to the fruit and produce industry.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Rear-Admiral John O'Connell Ross – Royal New Zealand Navy.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• The Honourable Henry Greathead Rex Mason – of Wellington. For public services.
• The Right Reverend Alwyn Keith Warren – lately Bishop of Christchurch.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• Clifford Ulric Plimmer – of Lower Hutt. For services to business, industry and in public affairs.

  Commander (CBE)

• Eoin Robert Garden – of Dunedin. For valuable services in the field of engineering.
• Wilton Ernest Henley – of Auckland. For valuable services to medicine.
• Eric William McCallum. For services to farming, especially as president of the Federated Farmers of New Zealand.
• Carl Leslie Spencer – Commissioner of Police.

• Air Commodore Percival Patrick O'Brien – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Ernest Philip Aderman – of New Plymouth. For public and political services.
• Thomas Harcourt Clarke Caughey. For community services, especially as chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board.
• John Herbert Hall – of Wellington. For services to the community in journalism, broadcasting and welfare work.
• William Greig Macartney – of Christchurch. For services to the dairy industry.
• Elizabeth Bamford Orbell – of Rotorua. For services to nursing.
• Manahi Nitama Paewai. For services to the Māori people in the Kaikohe district.
• Beryl Sidey – of Dunedin. For services to the community, especially in the kindergarten and Girl Guide movements.
• Harold Parnwell Smith – of Christchurch. For services to local government.
• John Arthur Steele – of Auckland. For services to the community and local government.
• Peter Tait – mayor of Napier.

• Surgeon Commander Harman Gilbert Smith – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Warne Ardagh – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
• Wing Commander Ralph Crowther Jones – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Donald Clarebrough Butler – chairman of the Whakatane County Council.
• Cyril Stewart Davies – of Geraldine. For services to the community and local government.
• James Dempsey – chairman of the Taumarunui County Council.
• Betsy Robertson Eyre – of Nelson. For services to the community and local government.
• Alfred Charles Lindsay Fooks. For services to engineering, especially as project engineer of the Wairakei Geothermal Power Project.
• Harold Owen Hills – mayor of Kaiapoi.
• Elizabeth Margaret Creighton Little – lately senior nurse inspector, Hamilton.
• Roy Vincent McLachlan – of Otago. For services to the community and local government.
• George Melville – town clerk, Milton.
• Gwynneth Nelson – of Dannevirke. For services to local government.
• Dorothy Martha Parfitt – of Greymouth. For services to the community in welfare and local-body work.
• Kathleen Reeve-Smith – of Te Kuiti. For community services for many years.
• Araitia Tepuretu – president of the Cook Islands Returned Services' Association.
• Mabel Christina Wachner – of Invercargill. For community welfare services.
• Thomas Albert Wilson – of Waimate. For services to the community and local government.
• Charles Woods. For services to the community, especially as general secretary of the Palmerston North branch of the Young Men's Christian Association.

• Lieutenant Commander Arthur Kenneth Griffith – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Major Frederick Betton Bath – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Major John Brooke – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Warrant Officer Class I Charles William Grotty – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Captain John Digby Ireland – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.
• Flying Officer Denis Alexander Gable – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Vivian John Cosgrave – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• John Charles Carew Edwards – chief traffic superintendent.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Edward Charles Marchant – prison officer, Auckland Prison.
• Walter Weir – prison officer, Auckland Prison. For courage and devotion to duty during riots in Auckland Prison.

• George Philp Ogilvie – constable, New Zealand Police Force.

• Able Seaman Richard Francis Anderson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Master at Arms Graeme Mervyn Cooke – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Visual Instructor Lindsay David Glassey – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Brian Neville Reed – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff Sergeant George Francis William Lewis – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Staff Sergeant Leslie Mullane – Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.
• Flight Sergeant William McArthur – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Kenneth Stanley Piper – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Edwin Bertram Wood – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Hall – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Andrew Reid – detective senior sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.
• George Colin Urquhart – assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.
• Garrett Hogan – detective sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

  Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM)

• William George Grey – chief fire officer, Marton Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• Cecil Alister Nightingale – chief fire officer, Oamaru Volunteer Fire Brigade.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Sydney Lambert – Royal New Zealand Air Force.