1965 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

The 1965 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by

• Professor
  FRCP – dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Otago
  .

• 
  Sir Edward Sayers

Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

Military division

• Air Vice-Marshal
  CBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force
  .

• George Burns – of Christchurch. For services to journalism.
• John Thomson Gilkison – Commissioner of Works.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• OBE JP – of Auckland
  . For services to the community.

• William Henry Cooper – of Auckland. For services to education.
• Percy Dowse JP – mayor of Hutt City.
• Alister Murray Linton – mayor of Rotorua.
• Ernest Richard Toop JP – of Wellington. For services to local government.

Military division

• Brigadier
  DSO
  – New Zealand Regular Force.

• 
  Percy Dowse
• 
  Ernest Toop
• 
  Robert Dawson

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.
• 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

• Commander John Malcolm Fielder
  VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve
  .
• Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Rodney Ingle
  MVO ED – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals
  (Regular Force).
• Wing Commander Melville Harry Scott Innes-Jones – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Bert Cooksley
• 
  Peter Snell
• 
  Frederick Turnovsky

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Victor Maxwell Anderson – of Eketāhuna. 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

• Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Thomas Henry Logan – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class I Jack Douglas Flowerday – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Major James Frederick Moodie
  MB ChB MRCP – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps
  (Regular Force).
• Squadron Leader Herbert Keele Horne – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Laurie Alexander Anderson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Brian Elliott Nye – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 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

• James Gordon Mearns – station maintenance overseer, Ministry of Works Staff, Royal New Zealand Air Force Station Hobsonville.
• Hector Redvers Sear – chief guide,
  Waitomo Caves
  .
• Archibald Frederick Williams – group scoutmaster, 1st Karori Group.

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)

• Matron Iris Frazer – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (Regular Force).

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.

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