1960 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

• FRCS – a consulting surgeon, of Auckland
  .

• Rear-Admiral
  OBE – lately on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy
  .

• 
  Sir Eruera Tirikatene

Companion (CMG)

• George Manning – of Christchurch. For services to education and local government.
• Member of Parliament (1922–1954), and Speaker of the House of Representatives
  (1947–1950).

• 
  George Manning
• 
  Robert McKeen

Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Samuel Thompson Barnett – Secretary for Justice and Controller-General of Prisons, Department of Justice.
• Michael Connelly JP – of Dunedin. For services in the field of local government.
• Alfred Hayward – deputy chairman of the Dairy Board.
• The Honourable
  Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II – prime minister of Western Samoa
  .

• 
  Sam Barnett
• 
  Michael Connelly

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Francis Cornelius Allerby – of Levin. For public services.
• Hugh Richard Jarvis Donald
  BM BCh
  – a medical practitioner, of Christchurch.
• Lewis Edward Harris – of Puketapu. For philanthropic and social-welfare services, especially in the interests of handicapped children.
• Charles John Hayward – a member of the Dunedin City Council.
• MBE – Crown solicitor, Greymouth
  (since 1921).
• Leslie John McDonald JP – in recognition of his services as director of the New Zealand Standards Institute (1936–1959), and to education.
• Mamea Matatumua – lately acting Secretary for Samoan Affairs, Western Samoa.
• Bertram Henry Olsson – director of the Naval Research Laboratory, Auckland.
• Īhāia Pōrutu Puketapu – of Lower Hutt. For social welfare services to Māori youth.
• Norman Hargrave Taylor – director of the Soil Bureau.
• Harry Hugo Tombs – of Wellington. For services to art and music.

Military division

• Commander David Lennox Millar
  VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve
  .
• Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Lumsden Wood MC ED – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Wing Commander Ivan Reid Mitchell DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Fred Kitchingham
• 
  Īhāia Puketapu
• 
  Norman Taylor

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Robert William Stanley Botting – of Dunedin. For services in local-body affairs and to sport.
• Walter Godfrey Bowen – chief shearing instructor to the New Zealand Wool Board.
• Margaret Elizabeth Callan – of Auckland. For community services, especially through the Crippled Children's Society.
• The Reverend John Gilman Sharp Dunn – president of the CORSO Council and clerk of the General Assembly of the
  Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
  .
• Archer Garside JP – of Onehunga
  . For services to local government.
• South Westland
  .
• George Alfred Harris – mayor of Temuka. For municipal and patriotic services.
• Andrew Jacob Haub JP – of New Plymouth. For services in connection with New Zealand justices of the peace.
• Lucy Eva Johnston – matron of the Abbotsford Home for Boys and Girls, Waipawa, and matron-in-charge, St Hilda's Home.
• Mabel Elizabeth Jolly – of Cromwell. For services to education, especially through the Correspondence School Parents' Association.
• Ivy Hazel Fletcher Jones JP – secretary-manager, Auckland Methodist Children's Home and Orphanage.
• David Erskine Sinclair Mason JP – engineer to the
  Southland
  Harbour Board.
• George Miller – of Wellington. For services to the community, especially amongst young people, and in the field of sport.
• Donald George Alfred Munro – of Wellington. For services to music.
• Oscar Gerald Smith – of Wellington. For services rendered under the auspices of the Returned Soldiers' Association.
• Eileen Hannah Spencer – of Palmerston North. For social-welfare services.
• Hone Te Kauru Taiapa – of Rotorua. For cultural services to the Māori people, especially in the field of wood carving
  .

• Warrant Officer First Class Neville William Faithful –
  New Zealand Regiment
  (Regular Force).
• Major Ronald Norman Griggs – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer Second Class George Tom Holden MM ED – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
• Major (temporary) Douglas Ronald Orange ED – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps (Territorial Force).
• Major (temporary) and Quartermaster Gordon William Stanley ED – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps (Regular Force).
• Flight Lieutenant William Francis Reece Jackson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Robert Thomas Francis Lewis – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Godfrey Bowen

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Kenneth John Caverhill – lately director of the State Advances Corporation.
• Edward Stephen Gale – lately Comptroller of Customs, Customs Department.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil division

• Lawrence Gordon – temporary sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.
• George Innes – sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

Military division

• Chief Petty Officer Frederick Maurice Glasson – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Petty Officer George Frederick Marshall – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) Gerald Victor Baldwin Martin – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Electrical Artificer Robert Thomas Noble Moffat – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff-Sergeant (temporary) John Arthur Baker – Royal New Zealand Dental Corps (Regular Force).
• Sergeant (temporary) Douglas Alexander Branks – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Staff-Sergeant Douglas Donald Hamilton – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Staff Sergeant Johnston Henry Robert Love EM – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Staff Sergeant Alexander George Metcalfe – Corps of Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Regular Force).
• Flight Sergeant William Alexander – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Horace Floyd Williams – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Master Signaller James Alfred Easton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Orme Snow Wilson Power – assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant Colin William Rudd – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Engineer Raymond William Tocker – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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