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The 1965 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1964 and the beginning of 1965, and were announced on 1 January 1965.[1]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Knight Bachelor

  • Sir Edward Sayers
    Sir Edward Sayers

Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

Military division

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

Commander (CBE)

Civil division
Military division
  • Brigadier Robert Boyd Dawson DSO – New Zealand Regular Force.
  • Percy Dowse
    Percy Dowse
  • Ernest Toop
    Ernest Toop

Officer (OBE)

Civil division
  • Arthur Dudley Carson – director of the Fields and Marginal Lands Divisions, Department of Lands and Survey.
  • Bertie Victor Cooksley MM – of Masterton. For services to the community.
  • Donald Alexander Finlayson JP – of Northland. For services to the dairy industry.
  • Alexander Kirkpatrick JP – of Hastings. For services to local government.
  • Grant Raglan Milne – of Wellington. For services in the field of engineering, particularly as president of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers.
  • Lawrence David Jose Nathan JP – of Auckland. For services to the community in the fields of philanthropy and local government.
  • Robert Steele Pearson – superintendent of the Youth Centre, Prisons Department, Waikeria.
  • Morton Sommerville Rennie – of Auckland. For services to agriculture.
  • Peter George Snell MBE – of Auckland. For his outstanding achievement in the field of athletics.
  • Winifred Sarah Train – lately matron, Palmerston North Public Hospital.
  • Frederick Turnovsky – of Wellington. For services in the field of music.
Military division
  • Bert Cooksley
    Bert Cooksley
  • Peter Snell
    Peter Snell

Member (MBE)

Civil division
  • Victor Maxwell Anderson – of Eketahuna. For services to local government.
  • Edward Stuart Bibby JP – of Waipawa. For services to the community.
  • Ada Clark – of Auckland. For services to the Missions to Seamen Harbour Lights Guild.
  • Cyril James Cox JP. For services to the community, especially as chairman of the Nelson Health Camp Committee.
  • Leo Vernon Farthing JP – of Timaru. For services to local government and welfare organisations.
  • Hubert Menary Hammond – of Hamilton. For services to local government and horticulture.
  • David Livingstone Holmes JP. For community welfare services, especially as chairman of the Chatham Islands County Council.
  • Bruce Hutchen – of Taranaki. For services to the community.
  • Laura May Cook Ingram JP – of Motueka. For services in the fields of community welfare and local government.
  • Herbert George Kemp JP – of Ashburton. For services to local government and the community.
  • Mabel Mahinarangi Kewene – matron, Te Puia Springs Hospital, Gisborne.
  • Thomas McKenzie JP – of Invercargill. For services to farming.
  • Albert Henry Nees – of Blenheim. For services to local-body affairs.
  • Edward Herbert Raymond JP – mayor of Te Puke Borough Council.
  • William John Richards – mayor of Hokitika.
  • Te Kiato Riwai BEM – of Christchurch. For services as a welfare officer to the Māori people.
  • Martin Sydney Stanley Smith JP – deputy mayor of Wanganui.
  • Ernest Wilfred Turner JP – of Auckland. For services to local government.
Military division

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil division, for gallantry
  • Andrew Robert McFarlane – constable, New Zealand Police. For arresting a mentally unbalanced man armed with a rifle.
  • Donald Kinloch White – sergeant, New Zealand Police. For arresting a mentally unbalanced man armed with a rifle.
Civil division, for meritorious service
Military division
  • Chief Petty Officer Writer Frederick Cozens – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Chief Petty Officer Electrician Michael John Patrick Headley – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Chief Radio Electrical Artificer Peter George Saunders – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Chief Petty Officer John Stokes – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Sergeant John Lawrence Rogers Lydiate – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
  • Staff-Sergeant (temporary) John David Anson Wright – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force).
  • Flight Sergeant Maurice Alan Conroy – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
  • Flight Sergeant James Walter Findlay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Royal Red Cross

Associate (ARRC)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

  • Squadron Leader Edmund Chester Arundel – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant William Edmund Hugh Bromley – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM)

  • Leslie Roy Joseph Osmond – chief fire officer, Christchurch Fire Brigade.
  • Hector Edward Braggins – lately third officer, Masterton Fire Brigade.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

  • William Smith Craigie – assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.
  • Henry Mark Holmes – detective chief superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

  • Flying Officer Gerald Ayre – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

  1. ^ "No. 43531". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 1 January 1965. pp. 43–46.
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