1968 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• Desmond Henry Todd – of Wellington. For services to commerce, particularly to the motor-vehicle industry.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Francis Leo Onion – of Te Kowhai. For services to farming.
• Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey – of Dunedin. For services to the community, especially to local government.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• Hugh John Dyke Acland – of South Canterbury. For outstanding services to farming.

  Commander (CBE)

• Henry Nelson Dollimore – Clerk of the House of Representatives.
• John Lochiel Robson – Secretary for Justice.
• Gordon Drummond Stewart – of Wellington. For services to commerce.
• Athol Umfrey Wells – of Auckland. For services to commerce.

• Commodore Joffre Paul Sinton Vallant – Royal New Zealand Navy.

  Officer (OBE)

• Rabbi Alexander Astor – chief minister of the Auckland Hebrew congregation.
• Hilton James Barrett – of Auckland. For services to the community, particularly to savings banks.
• Herbert Lorraine Boughton – of Waihi Beach. For services to the electrical industry.
• Albert Ronald Guthrey – of Christchurch. For services to local government.
• James Brian Lowe – of Auckland. For services to medicine.
• Stewart Bell Maclennan – director, National Art Gallery, Wellington.
• Eric Charles Marris – of Wellington. For services to commerce and public affairs.
• George Alfred Nicholls – of Gisborne. For services in the transport industry and aviation.
• Richard Alexander Nimon – chairman, Hawkes Bay County Council.
• Julia Nannie Wallace – principal, Palmerston North Girls' High School.
• Ian Rhys Wills – of Southland. For services to farming.

• Commander William James Lanyon Smith – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Matauru Poananga – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Wing Commander Royden Matthews Jarrett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• John William Reid – of Nelson. For repeated acts of gallantry during rescue operations in circumstances of extreme danger.

• Marjorie Henrietta Allan – principal, Hohepa Homes for Handicapped Children, Napier.
• Robert Watson Brown – mayor of Inglewood.
• Jarnes Dobson Campbell – of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. For services to scouting.
• William Ferguson Forrester – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
• George Herbert Fox – of Alexandra. For services to the community, especially to local government.
• Lewis Casmere Gorman – of Wellington. For services in the Prisons Service.
• Richard John Guerin – chairman, Dannevirke County Council.
• Minnie Johnson – of Christchurch. For services to kindergartens.
• Gerald Trevor Lee – of Auckland. For services in the field of music.
• Mona Margaret Livingston – of Waikanae. For services to the community.
• Janet Ruby McMillan – of Dannevirke. For services to the community, particularly to the Red Cross Society.
• John Edmund Marnane – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Edwin Purcell Meachen – of Blenheim. For services to the community, particularly to local government.
• Beatrice Victoria Palmer – brigadier, Salvation Army. For services to nursing.
• Ivan Edgar Reddish – general secretary, New Zealand Post Office Association.
• Ruiha Roimata Sage – of Hamilton. For services to the community, especially to women's and social service organisations.
• Robert Edwin Shortt – mayor of Wairoa.
• Peter Wilfred Tapsell – of Rotorua. For services to medicine and to the Māori people.
• Lionel Gilbert Thompson – of Kaitaia. For services to the community.
• Henry George Warren – of Whakatāne. For services to the community, especially to local government.

• Chaplain Roy Haigh McKenzie – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II Colin Russell Clements – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.
• Warrant Officer Class I William Phillip Morgan – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Captain Neil Macdonald Fraser Officer – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
• Warrant Officer Class I Eric George Rolle – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.
• Major Roy Thomas Victor Taylor – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Squadron Leader John Bernard Noonan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer George Robert McDonald – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Alastair Gordon Couston – medical superintendent, Seaview Hospital.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Raymond Joseph Clarke – constable, New Zealand Police.
• Pearl Howard Dawson. For services to women's sport in Auckland, particularly hockey and cricket.
• Mildred Janet Newton Easdale. For services to the community, particularly as official visitor to the Nelson Hospital.
• Kathryn Helen Harris. For services to students in Dunedin.
• John Maurice Henderson – traffic officer. For services to road safety in Dunedin.
• Winifred Agnes Huggins. For services to the community of Auckland.
• Peter Frank McAlpine. For services to scouting.
• Mary Elizabeth Miller. For services to the community of Northland.
• Noel Francis Pachaud. For services to local youth organisations in Rotorua.
• Hanare Morore Piripi – boatman rigger, Marine Department.
• Aileen Mary Stace. For services to the community of Eastbourne, particularly in the encouragement of wool handcrafts.
• Corrie Welsh – lately Plunket nurse, Christchurch.

• Flight Sergeant Colin George McDowell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Patrick John Larter – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Alexander McKenzie – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Royal Red Cross

Member (RRC)

• Kathleen Mary Winks Amon – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Colin William Rudd – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Thomas Reynolds Gilbert – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Earnst Royden Trask – superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.