1970 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• James Nimmo Crawford Doig. For outstanding services to commerce and exporting industries.
• The Honourable Mr Justice Trevor Ernest Henry – senior puisne judge, Supreme Court.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Percy Lyndon Laing, lately Commissioner of Works.
• John Seabrook – of Auckland. For valuable services to the community and to commerce.

  Order of the British Empire

Dame Commander (DBE)

• Te Ata-I-Rangikaahu Ariki nui – of Huntly. For outstanding services to the Māori people.

  Commander (CBE)

• Harry Edgar Duff Daysh – of Wellington. For very valuable services to commerce and the community.
• Robertson Huntly Stewart – of Christchurch. For very valuable services to the manufacturing industry.
• Bryan Shuckburgh Trolove – of Kaikoura. For very valuable services to sheep farming, especially as a member of the New Zealand Wool Board.
• Noel Spencer Woods – Secretary of Labour.

• Brigadier Robertson McKay Paterson – Brigadiers' List.

  Officer (OBE)

• Frank Maine Bateson – of Tauranga. For valuable services to science in the field of astronomy.
• Arthur Ernest Bockett – of Wellington. For valuable services to the waterfront industry.
• Gordon Alison Guy Connal – of Christchurch. For valuable services to local bodies and the arts.
• John Joseph Enwright – of Auckland. For valuable services at the Qui Nhơn Hospital in Vietnam over the past five years.
• John Hannibal George – of Roxburgh. For valuable services to politics.
• Ronald Victor Giorgi – of Hastings. For valuable services to the community, particularly in local-body affairs.
• Thomas Hill – of Dunedin. For valuable services to education.
• Montague Harry Holcroft – of Paekakariki. For valuable services to journalism.
• Noel Jones – of Nelson. For valuable services to the community.
• Peter McIntyre – of Wellington. For valuable services to the arts.
• Jocelyn Maud Ryburn – of Dunedin. For valuable services to the Plunket Society of New Zealand.
• James Alexander Stenberg – of Auckland. For valuable services to the community and to the arts.
• Joseph Listen Wilson – of Auckland. For valuable services to the Navy League.

• Commander William Ephraim Voysey Lowe – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Spencer Cocks – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.
• Wing Commander Gordon Ernest Erridge – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Frank Auld – of Whangarei. For services to the community.
• James Watson Birnie – of Taupo. For services to the community and to local bodies.
• Christopher Bernard Bouzaid – of Auckland. For services in the field of yachting.
• Nancy Vivian Jessie Claridge – of Upper Hutt. For services to the YWCA movement of New Zealand.
• Arthur Thomas Cushen – of Invercargill. For services to the community as a radio journalist, and to the blind people of Invercargill.
• Douglas Scott Dodds – of Christchurch. For services in the field of pharmacy.
• James Stewart Douglas – resident engineer, Ministry of Works, Westport.
• Edna Mary Fairhall – of Marlborough. For services to the community.
• Frederick William Finer – of Hawera. For services to local bodies.
• Marie Lilian Griffin – of Auckland. For services in the field of marriage and family guidance.
• John Sidney Hickey – of Opunake. For services to local bodies and the dairying industry.
• Jean Caroline Lodge – of Rotorua. For services to the community and in the field of sport, especially basketball.
• Arthur Baird Martin – of Martinborough. For services to local bodies and to the community.
• Geoffrey Grey Muir – of Gisborne. For services to journalism and the newspaper industry.
• John Craig Pollock – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Charles Holmwood Sturton – of Tauranga. For services to the New Zealand Police.
• Turi Rangi Te Kani – of Tauranga. For services to the Māori people.
• Howard Charles James Thompson – of Wellington; formerly assistant Secretary of Labour.
• William Goddard Volckman – of Canterbury. For services to the community as a general practitioner.
• Olwen Frances Watson – of Napier. For services to the nursing profession.

• Lieutenant Thomas Martin Morrow – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Maurice John Blair – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Major Eric Vernon Braggins – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Captain Joan May Burn – New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Chaplain Class III Whakahuihui Vercoe – Royal New Zealand Chaplains Department.
• Warrant Officer First Class Barry Roy Veysey – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Warrant Officer William Robinson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• David Kennedy – lately Conservator of Forests, New Zealand Forest Service, Rotorua.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Andrew Joseph Francis Brown – of Dunedin. For services to the community as an entertainment promoter.
• Nellie Scott Climie – of Paeroa. For services to education, the community and in the historical field.
• Frederick James Cullen – of Nelson. For services to the community, especially as a visitor to mental hospitals.
• Henry Leslie Emerson – of Tauranga. For services in a first aid capacity on hydroelectric schemes on the Waikato River.
• Zena Bell Gay – of Nelson. For services to the community, especially in the field of indoor basketball.
• Isobel May Hollis – of Wellington. For services as a police matron and as a probation officer.
• Gwyneth Olwyn Jepson – of Auckland. For services to returned servicemen and women and their dependants.
• Eric Alfred Johnson – of Marlborough Sounds. For services to the community.
• Murray Albert Le Fevre – constable, New Zealand Police Force, Reefton.
• Bruce Graham Mackenzie – constable, New Zealand Police Force, Eketāhuna.
• Edna Frances Neville – of Christchurch. For services to the community as an entertainer.
• Eric Priar Nisbet – of Rotorua. For services as a sporting coach, especially swimming.
• James Coull Stirling. For services as supervisor of government grounds, Wellington.
• Bernice Muriel Wells – of Auckland. For services as a lip-reading teacher with the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing.
• Mary Elizabeth Will – of Palmerston North. For community services, especially to Country Women's Institutes.

• Medical Petty Officer Cecil Cameron – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer Ronald Duncan Robinson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Visual Instructor Arthur Charles Venus – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Frederick Bigg-Wither – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.
• Sergeant Thomas Riri – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Flight Sergeant Francis Harold Hodgson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flight Lieutenant Larry Alexander Olsen – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM)

• Howard Leonard Hooker – deputy chief fire officer, Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• Hector Vincent Sylvester Oliver – chief fire officer, Nelson Fire Brigade.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Bruce Harry Constable – detective sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.
• Cyril Leonard Scanlan – superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant William John Ramsay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.