Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander (KBE)
- Civil division
- Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes CBE MB ChM . For outstanding services as surgeon-in-charge of the cardio-thoracic unit at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland.
- George Philip Proctor CBE – of Wellington. For outstanding services to manufacturing and the community.
Commander (CBE)
- Civil division
- Professor Ian Alistair Gordon – of Wellington. For very valuable services to university education.
- James Robert Maddren – of Christchurch. For very valuable services to industry and the export drive.
- Professor John Arthur Reginald Miles MD – of Dunedin. For very valuable services to science.
- Alick Lindsay Poole – of Wellington. For very valuable services to the development of forestry and the forest industries.
- Military division
- Brigadier Ian Thomas Galloway OBE ED – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
Officer (OBE)
- Civil division
- Marjory French Erne Adams – of Auckland. For valuable services to education as headmistress of Epsom Girls Grammar School from 1953 to 1970.
- The Right Reverend Owen Thomas Baragwanath ED – of Auckland. For valuable services to the community as a minister of religion.
- Robert Colville Bradshaw – of Upper Hutt. For valuable services to industry and commerce.
- The Reverend Haddon Charles Dixon – of Lower Hutt. For valuable services to the relief of hunger and poverty overseas.
- John Lloyd Fenaughty – of Wellington. For valuable services as New Zealand commissioner-general at Expo 70, Osaka.
- Claude Jack Ferrier – of Christchurch. For valuable services to the community.
- Marie Louise Dansey Iles MBE – of Christchurch. For valuable services as general secretary of the Girl Guides Association.
- Gilbert Maclean MB ChB . For valuable services to the community as chairman of the Wellington Hospital Board.
- Russell Matthews – of New Plymouth. For valuable services to the community.
- John Alexander Moreland – of Cambridge. For valuable services to the dairy industry.
- Iriaka Rio Te Hihiri Rātana – of Whangaehu. For valuable services to the Māori people.
- Constance Egmont Tulloch MBE – of Putāruru. For valuable services to the community, especially as chairman of the Waikato Hospital Board.
- Edward William Desmond Unwin MBE ED. For valuable services as chairman of the Timaru Harbour Board.
- Military division
- Commander Raymond Frederick Sanderson VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Wynyard Beasley – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force).
- Group Captain Nelson Hastings Bright – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Iriaka Rātana
Member (MBE)
- Civil division
- Lloyd James Appleton – of Dannevirke. For services to local government and journalism.
- Thomas Frank Armstrong Archer – of Nelson. For services as president of the New Zealand Fruit Growers Federation Ltd, 1950–1966.
- Neil Alexander Barr – of Kaukapakapa. For services as founder of the Farm Forestry Association in New Zealand.
- Frederick Harold Bennett. For services to local government as chairman of the Masterton County Council.
- Percival Mahan Brooker – of Wellington. For services to brass band music.
- Stanley Crawford Childs – of Pukekohe. For services to local government.
- Mollie Christie, MB ChB – of Wanganui. For services to the community.
- Wilfred Trevor Church – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
- Alan Harry De Costa – of Gisborne. For services to surf lifesaving.
- Frank McGregor Henderson – of Lumsden. For services to agriculture and education.
- Lily Annie Huggan For services to the community especially as mayor of Petone.
- Eileen Marie Kelly – of Greymouth. For services to the community.
- Father Thomas Gerarde Keyes – of Invercargill. For services to the rehabilitation of young offenders.
- Harold Edward Lawrence – of Ōtorohanga. For services to local government.
- Charles Frederic Le Cren – of Christchurch. For services to amputees.
- Jessie Kennedy Lees – of New Plymouth, For services to the Women's Division of Federated Farmers.
- Caroline Elizabeth Lepper – of Invercargill. For services to crippled children.
- Lewis Rowland Lewis – of Napier. For services to education.
- George Lorimer McLatchie – of Oamaru. For services to the poultry industry.
- Colin Earl Meads – of Te Kūiti. For services to rugby football.
- Walter Allan Parker. For services as mayor of Kaitangata.
- Henry Witen Bell Poppelwell – of Hastings. For services to the community.
- Gordon Cowie Riddell – of Auckland. For services to the community.
- Brian Preston Stevenson – of Auckland. For services to local government.
- Military division
- Lieutenant Commander (Special) Ian George McLean – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
- Lieutenant Commander John Joseph Maire – Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Warrant Officer Second Class David Ernie Dorset – Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers (Regular Force).
- Warrant Officer First Class Roland Alfred Manning – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
- Warrant Officer First Class George Hedley Newcomb – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
- Warrant Officer William Twaddle Frickleton Buchanan MM – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Flight Lieutenant Walter George Carruthers – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Annie Huggan
Colin Meads
