1958 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

• John Cawte Beaglehole – of Wellington. For services in the fields of historical research and literature.
• James Roberts – secretary of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation and the Alliance of Labour.

• 
  James Roberts

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• FRCP
  – of Wellington. For services to medicine.
• Frederick Horace Smirk MD FRCP – professor of medicine at the University of Otago.

Military division

• Major-General
  DSO – Generals' List (Retired), New Zealand Army
  .
• Major-General Keith Lindsay Stewart CB CBE DSO – Generals' List (Retired), New Zealand Army.

• 
  Sir Keith Stewart

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Gilbert Edward Archey OBE – director of the Auckland Institute and Museum.
• James Leggat – headmaster of the Christchurch Boys' High School.
• Campbell Percy McMeekan – superintendent of the Animal Research Station at Ruakura.
• David Miller – an entomologist; director of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson.

Military division

• Air Commodore Charles Campbell Hunter OBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Gilbert Archey
• 
  Mac McMeekan
• 
  David Miller

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Geoffrey Thomas Alley – director of the National Library Service.
• Estelle Beere – of Wellington; a teacher of dancing for many years.
• The Reverend Colin Douglas Charles Caswell – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Ernest Charles Empson – president of the New Zealand Registered Music Teachers' Association.
• Trevor Hatherton – Geophysics Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington.
• Joseph Holmes Miller – deputy leader of the New Zealand Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
• MB ChB
  – of Wellington. For services in the field of plastic surgery.
• Thomas Athol Rafter – director of the Dominion Physical Laboratory.
• William Stanley Norman Rennie – president of the Electrical Supply Authorities Association and chairman of the Wanganui Power Board.
• Emily Elizabeth Stephens – of Auckland. For services to education.
• John Weeks – an artist, of Auckland.

Military division

• Lieutenant-Colonel Warren John Boyd
  MB ChB – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps
  (Territorial Force).
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Raymond Francis Smith ED – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Wing Commander Arnold Eric Cockburn – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Holmes Miller

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Vincent Aspey – of Wellington. For services to music, especially as leader of the National Orchestra.
• Ralph Ewart Barley
  Hawke's Bay
  area.
• Kathleen Buckle. For services to the community in North Auckland.
• New Zealand Police Force
  .
• Percy William Jones Cockerill – of Timaru. For services to the community.
• Agnes Emily Aurora Faulkner JP – of Tauranga. For social welfare services.
• Kathleen Janet Ford – principal of the Burwood Girls' Training Centre, Christchurch.
• Malama Vaiolae Head – of Niue. For services to education.
• Violet Blanche Rollings JP – mayoress of Onehunga.
• Henry Valentine Horlor JP. For services to the community in local-body affairs in Lower Hutt.
• Agnes Mary Kearns – of Palmerston North. For services to nursing.
• Ngarangi Putiputi Te Kura Kohere – of Dannevirke. For services to nursing.
• Captain Raymond Arthur Parker –
  Merchant Marine. For services to the community of the North Shore
  area, Auckland.
• James Malcolm Patrick – chairman of the King Edward Technical College.
• Ellen Alma Rose – lately matron of the public hospital, Waipukurau.
• Oscar Silbery JP. For services to the community in local-body affairs in the Petone area.
• Thomas Stewart Spencer – of Bluff. For services to the Māori people.

Military division

• Lieutenant (SD) Trevor Harry Wickman – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class I George Henry –
  Royal New Zealand Artillery
  .
• Major William Aitchison Driscoll McComb ED –
  Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps
  (Territorial Force).
• Major Frank Dupree McWha – Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Warrant Officer Class I Cecil Max Schwass –
  New Zealand Regiment
  .
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Lunn ED – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Francis Davitt Mandival Moran – Royal New Zealand Air Force Reserve.

• 
  Harry Horlor

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• New Zealand Geological Survey
  .

• 
  Leslie Grange

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil division

• Alonzo George Edgar Beal – senior sergeant, New Zealand Police Force, Bluff.
• John Richard Lucas – night duty officer,
  Mount Eden Jail
  , Department of Justice, Auckland.
• William Smith – second-in-charge of store activities, Naval Store Department, HMNZ Dockyard, Auckland.

Military division

• Mechanician 1st Class Roy Alphonsus Berwick – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer Walter John Douglas – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Electrical Artificer Thomas Gaylor – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Radio Electrician Peter David Mulgrew – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Engine Room Artificer Class II Frank Desmond Rastrick – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Staff-Sergeant Ramon Tinsley – New Zealand Regiment.
• Flight Sergeant Richard James Ruscoe – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant William Rink – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Laurence Walter Tarr – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader John Richard Claydon – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Keith Bishop Smith – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Percy James Nalder
  MVO
  – assistant commissioner of the New Zealand Police Force.

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