1954 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1954 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

• David Henry – chairman and managing director, New Zealand Forest Products Limited.
• CMG – of Dunedin
  , company director. For public services.

• 
  Sir David Henry
• 
  Sir John Ross

Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

Military division

• Major-General
  DSO – Chief of the New Zealand General Staff
  .

• Edward Coldham Fussell – governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
• Robert Mafeking Macfarlane JP – mayor of Christchurch.

• 
  Robert Macfarlane

Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• John Grierson – chairman, Auckland Hospital Board, and a director of the Bank of New Zealand.
• Internal Affairs
  .
• The Very Reverend David Craig Herron MC – chancellor of the University of Otago.
• Philip Patrick Lynch MD FRACP – of Wellington; a prominent pathologist.
• William Yates – Director of Broadcasting.

Military division

• Group Captain Reginald William Kennedy Stevens – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  David Herron

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Captain Leslie Cecil Boulton – MV Maui Pomare, Island Territories Department.
• Flora Jean Cameron – Director of the Nursing Division, Department of Health.
• Michael Francis Edward Cooney –
  mayor of Oamaru
  .
• Victor Caddy Davies – of New Plymouth. For services to horticulture.
• Henry Gillies Livingstone JP – of Christchurch. For services to local government.
• Claude James Lovegrove – president, Electrical Supply Authorities' Association of New Zealand.
• Charles Isaac Nathan – chairman, Board of Trustees, New Zealand Institute for the Blind.

Military division

• Commander Humphrey Leoline Jenkins DSC – Royal Navy (on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy).
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Alfred Thomas McGuire
  New Zealand Territorial Force
  .
• The Reverend Arthur Russell Allerton MC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Colonel Maxwell Aldred VD – of Waiuku. For public services.
• James Edwin Benson JP – of Gisborne. For services to local government.
• Edith Mary Winstone Blackwell – of Auckland. For social welfare and philanthropic services.
• Ernest Israel Crossman – of
  St John's Ambulance Association
  and volunteer fire brigade work.
• Kenneth Waring Dalrymple – chairman, Rangitikei County Council.
• Henry Charles James Gimblett – clerk of the Southland County Council.
• Francis Mortimer Howell Sr. – of Central Otago. For services to the community.
• Stanley James Judd. For services to Pahiatua Borough Council.
• Helen Louisa Mason – of Matamata. For services rendered in connection with patriotic and social welfare movements.
• Arthur Joseph McEldowney JP – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
• Ivy McIntosh – of Invercargill. For public services.
• Maraea Ngarimu. For social welfare services to the Māori people in the East Coast area.
• Alfred Gordon Nolan – chairman, Wairoa County Council.
• Nora Martha Ross JP – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
• William Prentice Sommerville JP – of Wellington. For voluntary services to orphanages and other charitable organisations.
• Rawiri Pehiatea Tatana. For services to the Māori people as an elder and leader of the Ngāti Toa and Ngāti Raukawa tribes.
• John Mark Totich – of Auckland. For social welfare services.
• Mary Herbert Tripp – of Christchurch. For services rendered in connection with patriotic movements.
• Florence Christina Waters – of Hamilton. For social welfare services, especially in connection with the Red Cross and other charitable organisations.
• Edward Rogers Webb – bursar of Christ's College for many years.
• Nancy Wilson. For services as New Zealand Commissioner for Cubs and to scouting.
• Charles Alexander Woolley – superintendent, Wellington City Fire Brigade.

Military division

• Senior Commissioned Gunner Ernest Francis Standley DSM – Royal Navy (on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy).
• Captain (temporary) James Conway Brown –
  Royal New Zealand Artillery. In recognition of services in Korea during the period 28 July 1953 to 31 January 1954.^[2]
• Captain Frederick Robert Charles Penn – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• Warrant Officer Second Class George Te Hou – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• Captain and Quartermaster Arthur Wainwright – Supernumerary List, New Zealand Regular Force.
• Flight Lieutenant George Thomas Beban – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard Ian Frederick Hall – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Chief Electrical Artificer John Percival Badger – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Walter Blake – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Steward Robert George Coley – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Allen William Gray – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Reginald Albert Haynes – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Ernest James Rochfort – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Mechanician Herbert William Warner – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Mechanician William Peter Wyatt – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Ross Pearson Legge –
  Corps of Royal Engineers; at present serving with the New Zealand Army
  .
• Staff-Sergeant John Hannay Scott – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• Flight Sergeant William Samuel Charles Boyer – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Myrtle Burns – Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Francis William Diment – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Corporal Raymond Heathcote Bennetts – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Bar to Air Force Cross

• Wing Commander Robert Francis Watson AFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant James Desmond Washington – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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