1938 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1938 King's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

• CMG – of Auckland; New Zealand member of the British Phosphate Commission
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• 
  Sir Albert Ellis

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Richard Oliver Gross – of Auckland; a prominent sculptor.
• John Wood
  MICE – engineer-in-chief and under-secretary of the Public Works Department
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• Professor
  FIC – of Nelson; formerly director of the Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research
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• 
  Sir Thomas Easterfield

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Annie Elizabeth Kelly – of Christchurch; a prominent artist.
• William Sanderson La Trobe – of Wellington; formerly superintendent of technical education, Education Department.

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Sadie Macdonald – of Wellington. For social-welfare services.
• James Wallace JP – of Dunedin; chairman of the Otago Education Board.

Military division

• Major Eric Freeman Clayton-Greene – officer commanding 2nd Medium Battery, New Zealand Artillery (Territorial Force); of Hamilton.

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Fitzroy School, New Plymouth
• John Connell Brown – of Westport. For social-welfare services.
• Robina Thomson Cameron – of Rotorua; district health nurse.
• Katharina Margarita Finnane – matron of Porirua Mental Hospital.
• John Henry O'Donnell – of Wellington; formerly assistant under-secretary, Lands and Survey Department.

Military division

• Paymaster-Lieutenant Herbert Russell Sleeman – New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy; assistant naval secretary, Wellington.
• Warrant Officer William Stanley Simpson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Christchurch.

British Empire Medal

Civil division

• Staff Sergeant-Major Edward James Barwell – senior orderly, Government House, Wellington.

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