1968 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

• Desmond Henry Todd – of Wellington. For services to commerce, particularly to the motor-vehicle industry.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Francis Leo Onion JP – of Te Kowhai. For services to farming.
• Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey – of Dunedin. For services to the community, especially to local government.

• 
  Stuart Sidey

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Hugh John Dyke Acland JP – of South Canterbury. For outstanding services to farming.

• 
  Sir Jack Acland

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Henry Nelson Dollimore – Clerk of the House of Representatives.
• John Lochiel Robson – Secretary for Justice.
• Gordon Drummond Stewart – of Wellington. For services to commerce.
• Athol Umfrey Wells – of Auckland. For services to commerce.

Military division

• Commodore Joffre Paul Sinton Vallant – Royal New Zealand Navy.

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Rabbi Alexander Astor – chief minister of the Auckland Hebrew congregation.
• Hilton James Barrett – of Auckland. For services to the community, particularly to savings banks.
• Herbert Lorraine Boughton – of Waihi Beach. For services to the electrical industry.
• Albert Ronald Guthrey MC – of Christchurch. For services to local government.
• James Brian Lowe
  MB ChB
  – of Auckland. For services to medicine.
• National Art Gallery, Wellington
  .
• Eric Charles Marris – of Wellington. For services to commerce and public affairs.
• George Alfred Nicholls – of Gisborne. For services in the transport industry and aviation.
• Richard Alexander Nimon – chairman,
  Hawkes Bay
  County Council.
• Julia Nannie Wallace – principal, Palmerston North Girls' High School.
• Ian Rhys Wills JP – of
  Southland
  . For services to farming.

Military division

• Commander
  DSO
  – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel
  MBE – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
  (Regular Force).
• Wing Commander Royden Matthews Jarrett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Ron Guthrey
• 
  Julia Wallace

Member (MBE)

Civil division, for gallantry

• John William Reid – of Nelson. For repeated acts of gallantry during rescue operations in circumstances of extreme danger.

Civil division

• Marjorie Henrietta Allan – principal, Hohepa Homes for Handicapped Children, Napier.
• Robert Watson Brown – mayor of Inglewood.
• James Dobson Campbell – of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. For services to scouting.
• William Ferguson Forrester – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
• George Herbert Fox JP – of Alexandra. For services to the community, especially to local government.
• Lewis Casmere Gorman – of Wellington. For services in the Prisons Service.
• Richard John Guerin JP – chairman,
  Dannevirke County Council
  .
• Minnie Johnson – of Christchurch. For services to kindergartens.
• Gerald Trevor Lee – of Auckland. For services in the field of music.
• Mona Margaret Livingston – of Waikanae. For services to the community.
• Janet Ruby McMillan – of Dannevirke. For services to the community, particularly to the Red Cross Society.
• John Edmund Marnane – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Edwin Purcell Meachen JP – of Blenheim. For services to the community, particularly to local government.
• Beatrice Victoria Palmer – brigadier, Salvation Army. For services to nursing.
• Ivan Edgar Reddish – general secretary, New Zealand Post Office Association.
• Ruiha Roimata Sage JP – of Hamilton. For services to the community, especially to women's and social service organisations.
• Robert Edwin Shortt JP – mayor of Wairoa.
• Peter Wilfred Tapsell MB ChB – of Rotorua. For services to medicine and to the Māori people.
• Lionel Gilbert Thompson JP – of Kaitaia. For services to the community.
• Henry George Warren JP – of Whakatāne
  . For services to the community, especially to local government.

• Chaplain Roy Haigh McKenzie – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II Colin Russell Clements – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Territorial Force).
• Warrant Officer Class I William Phillip Morgan – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Captain Neil Macdonald Fraser Officer – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer Class I Eric George Rolle – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals (Regular Force).
• Major (temporary) Roy Thomas Victor Taylor – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Squadron Leader John Bernard Noonan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer George Robert McDonald – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Ted Meachen
• 
  Peter Tapsell

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Alastair Gordon Couston
  LRCS JP – medical superintendent, Seaview Hospital
  .

• Raymond Joseph Clarke – constable, New Zealand Police.
• Pearl Howard Dawson. For services to women's sport in Auckland, particularly hockey and cricket.
• Mildred Janet Newton Easdale. For services to the community, particularly as official visitor to the Nelson Hospital.
• Kathryn Helen Harris. For services to students in Dunedin.
• John Maurice Henderson – traffic officer. For services to road safety in Dunedin.
• Winifred Agnes Huggins. For services to the community of Auckland.
• Peter Frank McAlpine. For services to scouting.
• Mary Elizabeth Miller. For services to the community of Northland.
• Noel Francis Pachaud. For services to local youth organisations in Rotorua.
• Hanare Morore Piripi – boatman rigger, Marine Department.
• Aileen Mary Stace. For services to the community of Eastbourne, particularly in the encouragement of wool handcrafts.
• Corrie Welsh – lately Plunket nurse, Christchurch.

Military division

• Flight Sergeant Colin George McDowell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Patrick John Larter – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Alexander McKenzie – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Royal Red Cross

Member (RRC)

• Kathleen Mary Winks Amon – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (Regular Force).

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Colin William Rudd – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Thomas Reynolds Gilbert – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Earnst Royden Trask – superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

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