1970 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable Roy Emile Jack. For outstanding services as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Dove Myer Robinson. For outstanding services as mayor of Auckland from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1968.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Air Vice-Marshal William Hector Stratton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

• The Right Honourable Keith Jacka Holyoake – Prime Minister.

  Companion (CMG)

• Samuel Lawrence Ludbrook – of Auckland. For most valuable services to paediatrics and child health.
• The Honourable John Kenneth McAlpine – of Christchurch. For most valuable services to politics.
• The Honourable Arnold Henry Nordmeyer – of Wellington. For most valuable services to politics.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• Alan John Danks. For outstanding services as chairman of the University Grants Committee.

  Commander (CBE)

• William Patteson Pollock Gordon – of Stratford. For very valuable services to medicine.
• Bernard David Arthur Greig – of Wellington. For very valuable services as Controller and Auditor-General.
• William Maxwell Hamilton – of Wellington. For very valuable services as director-general of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Geoffrey John Jeune – of Wellington. For very valuable services as chief judge of the Māori Land Court.

• Major-General Richard James Holden Webb – Chief of General Staff.

  Officer (OBE)

• Horace Ernest Carter. For valuable service to the community of Tauranga, especially as chairman of the Tauranga Harbour Board.
• Neill Thomas Gillespie – of Lower Hutt. For valuable services to local and national bodies.
• John Parry James – of Hamilton. For valuable services in the field of veterinary research.
• Brian James Lochore – of Eketāhuna. For valuable services to the sport of rugby football.
• Allan Joseph McDonald – of Wellington. For valuable services as secretary, New Zealand Labour Party.
• Eric Percy Salmon – of Auckland. For valuable services to the community and the printing industry.
• David Thomas Spring – of Palmerston North. For valuable services to the community, particularly education.
• Andrew Shirlaw Murray – of Cheviot. For valuable services to education.
• Hanara Tangiawha Reedy – of Ruatoria. For valuable services to the Māori people.
• Neil Lachlan Watson – of Invercargill. For valuable services to local government.
• James Busby Williams – of Gisborne. For valuable services to the community, particularly in local-body affairs.
• Ralph Frederick Wilson – of Wellington. For valuable services as general director of the New Zealand National Party.
• Herbert Jenner Wily – of Auckland. For valuable services as a magistrate.

• Commander Peter Ronald Silk – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Colonel Robertson Harvey Smith – Colonels' List.
• Group Captain Bertram Collin Thomas Fitzgerald – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Victor James Alexander – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Laura Catherine Ambury – of Dargaville. For services to the community.
• George John Wedgwood Boon – of Stratford. For services to local-body affairs as mayor of Stratford since 1957.
• Helen Campbell – of Christchurch. For services to the nursing profession.
• William Arthur Gordon Craddock – of Westport. For services to the community, particularly in the field of sports administration.
• The Reverend Murray Holman Feist – of Auckland. For services as secretary for New Zealand of the Mission to Lepers.
• Richard Noel Fickling – of Auckland. For services to local government and to sport.
• Betty Phyllis Hanson – of Auckland. For services to education administration.
• The Reverend Kingi Matutaera Ihaka – of Auckland. For services to the Anglican Māori Church.
• Patrick Kearins – of Taihape. For services to local affairs.
• Mary Timpany – of Dunedin. For services to the education of deaf children.
• Walter James Ganley Parker – of Dannevirke. For services to the Boy Scout movement.
• Henry Trevor Parry – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• David Holt Rawson – of New Plymouth. For services to the community, especially in the field of mountain search and rescue.
• Arthur Henry Richards – of Napier. For services to the community, particularly to the welfare of the aged.
• Arthur Laurence Richardson – of Tāneatua. For services in local government.
• Robert Thomas Scott – of Morrinsville. For services to local-body affairs.
• Maora Tamihana – of Wellington. For services to Māori welfare.
• Herbert Henry Thomason – of Motueka. For services to local-body affairs.
• Donald Alexander Thompson – of Masterton. For services to the community, particularly to cultural organisations.
• Arthur William Thomson – of Balclutha. For services to the community.

• Lieutenant Commander Reginald Samuel Hurden – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major James Richard Milton Barker – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Major Fancis Edward Hopkinson – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.
• Warrant Officer First Class Graeme Joseph Brighouse – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Warrant Officer First Class Andrew Gilmour McNearnie – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Squadron Leader James William Crook – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader William Ross Donaldson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Walter Thomas Ryde – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Philip Arthur Barnes – of Wellington. For valuable services as ministerial secretary.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Eric Raymond Clark – of Taumarunui. For services to the community and interest in the education of the Māori people.
• Hilda Frame – of Lyttelton. For services to the community.
• Richard Geoffrey Groves – of Ōpōtiki. For services as a sports coach.
• Frederick Arthur Halldane – of Christchurch. For services in voluntary defence training.
• Susannah Hoggard – of Paraparaumu. For services to the community.
• Frederick Livingstone Irving – of Nelson. For services to psychiatric nursing.
• William Arthur Lindsay. For services as manager of the Waitangi National Trust at Paihia since 1951.
• Private Leslie William Louisson – of New Plymouth. For services to the blind.
• Harold Allan Ben Pattenden – of Hamilton. For services as a foreman fitter with the New Zealand Electricity Department since 1944.
• Walter William Soal – of Ashburton. For services as a member of the St John Ambulance Brigade since 1940.
• Dorothy Steel – of Dunedin. For services to CORSO.
• Floyd Davis West – of Hokitika. For services as a line overseer, New Zealand Electricity Department.

• Chief Marine Engineering Mechanician Arthur James Thomas Curry – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Bryan Thomas Barlow – Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Petty Officer Arthur James Thomas Peacock – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff Sergeant Bernt Ludolf Sweder Fernand van Asbeck – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Staff Sergeant Temporary Warrant Officer Second Class John Thomas Bennett – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Staff Sergeant Thomas Hippolite Rangi – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Corporal Peihopa Brown – New Zealand Special Air Service.
• Flight Sergeant James Halligan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Owen Huggard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Bar to Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader John Clark Buckmaster – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Frank Laurence Diggle – superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.
• Bernard George Waller – senior sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.