1977 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

• Her Majesty The Queen – to be colonel-in-chief, Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.
• Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother – to be colonel-in-chief, Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
• His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – to be field marshal, New Zealand Army and Marshal of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales) – to be air commodore-in-chief, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips – to be colonel-in-chief, Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.
• Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester – to be colonel-in-chief, Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.

• 
  Elizabeth II
• 
  Queen Mother
• 
  Duke of Edinburgh
• 
  Prince of Wales
• 
  Princess Anne
• 
  Duchess of Gloucester

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Additional member

• The Right Honourable
  MP – of Wellington; Prime Minister of New Zealand
  .

• 
  Robert Muldoon

Knight Bachelor

• Alan Roberts Low – of Lower Hutt; governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1967–1977.
• MBE – of Auckland
  . For services to commerce and the community.
• CBE JP – of Nelson
  . For services to the travel industry, commerce and the community.

• 
  Sir Ken Myers

Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

Military division

• Rear Admiral John Foster McKenzie CBE – Chief of Naval Staff.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• The Honourable Douglas Julian Carter – of London. For public services, lately as New Zealand high commissioner in the United Kingdom.

• 
  Sir Douglas Carter

Companion (CMG)

• Lester John Castle – of Wellington; president of the New Zealand Law Society, 1974–1977.
• The Honourable
  OBE – Premier of Niue
  .

• Dr Cecily Mary Wise Pickerill OBE – of Upper Hutt. For services to medicine, especially in the field of plastic surgery.

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Dr Randal Forbes Elliott OBE – of Wellington. For services to medicine.
• The Right Honourable Sir Clifford Parris Richmond – of Wellington; president of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Dr
  FRSNZ – of Christchurch. For services as director of the Canterbury Museum
  since 1948.
• Ernest Raymond Elliot – of Wellington; commissioner, Salvation Army. For services to the community.
• Harold Philip Fowler OBE – of Invercargill. For services to education.
• Dr Alan Tutton Johns FRSNZ – of Wellington; Director-General of Agriculture since 1968.
• Peter John Luxford – of Wellington. For services as executive director of the New Zealand Employers' Federation.
• Dr William Anderson McGillivray FRSNZ JP – of Palmerston North. For services as director of New Zealand Dairy Research Institute since 1965.
• Maurice Paykel – of Auckland. For services to manufacturing industry and the community.
• Dr Kenneth Edmund Seal – of Auckland. For services to New Zealand aid programme in Indonesia.
• Mark Wallace Sr MBE JP – of Hokitika. For services to local government and farming.
• Official Secretary to the Governor-General
  since 1960.

Military division

• Air Commodore Harold Gordon Moss AFC – head, New Zealand Defence Liaison Staff, Canberra.

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Patricia Maureen Bartlett – of Lower Hutt. For services to the community.
• Reginald Seymour Bates – of Waihou. For services to dairy and coalmining industries.
• Lloyd Elsmore JP – of Auckland. For services to local-body and community affairs.
• Dr Morgan Francis Fahey – of Christchurch. For services to the community.^[A]
• Lewis William Newlands Fitch – of Upper Hutt. For services to veterinary science.
• Lester Longueville Charles Griffiths JP – of Taradale. For services to the community.
• Brother Francis Patrick Henery – of Dunedin, For services to education and sport.
• Henry Hutchinson – of Greymouth. For services to the community.
• Norman Heyworth Law – of Hamilton. For services as director of the Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand since 1957.
• Ruth Margaret Lilico – of Invercargill. For services to social welfare.
• Dr John Colin Lopdell – of Auckland; medical superintendent, medical social services, Auckland Hospital Board since 1961.
• Te Uira Tuteao Manihera – of Hamilton. For services to Māori people and community.
• Dr Diana Manby Mason – of Wellington. For services to the community.
• Patricia Stella McMinn (Mrs Randrup) – of Auckland. For services to entertainment.
• John William Overton – Assistant Commissioner, New Zealand Police.
• Roy Cyril Stoneham – of Kawerau
  . For services to the community.
• Catherine Wilhelmina Vautier – of Palmerston North. For services to sport and the community.
• Edwina Diana Patricia Walker – of Auckland. For services to the community and women's affairs.

Military division

• Commander William Stewart Watson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Montrose Gordon – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Colonel Maxwell Tebbutt – Colonels' List, New Zealand Army.
• Group Captain Reginald Thorpe – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Lloyd Elsmore
• 
  Lou Fitch

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Stanley Nicholas Bakulich – of Dargaville. For services to trade-union affairs.
• William Arthur Black – of Te Anau. For services to search and rescue operations.
• Raymond Stanley Boyce – of Wellington. For services to the arts.
• Ronald Hugh Davis – of Napier. For services to the building industry and community.
• Mary Eileen Gillies (Sister Mary Justine) – of Auckland. For services to education.
• Kenneth Ralph Gillon – of Napier. For services to the community and local-body affairs.
• Otto Gram – of Taumarunui. For services to search and rescue operations.
• Richard Stopford Higginbotham – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Marie Jean Hobbs – of Auckland. For services to women's bowling.
• Grenville Frederick Hughes – of Papakura. For services to horseracing as a jockey.
• Marion Elizabeth Jackman – of Wellington. For services to sport, especially athletics.
• Helene Douglas Love McIver – of Timaru
  . For services to the community.
• Andrew McNicol – of Auckland. For services to the education and training of intellectually handicapped children.
• Charles Norman Nicholls – of Auckland. For services to horticulture, athletics and the community.
• George Alexander Ronald Petrie – of Invercargill. For services to horticulture.
• Arthur Richard Rackley – of Dunedin. For services to the arts and community.
• Peter Riwaru Ririnui – of Tauranga. For services to the community and trade-union affairs.
• Nellie Elizabeth Robertson – of Palmerston North. For services to the community.
• Colin Desmond Smith – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Victor Gerald Spiller – of Christchurch. For services to local-body and community affairs
• Frederick John Taylor JP – of Eltham. For services to the community.
• Agnes Theodore (Akinihi Tiatoa) JP – of Auckland. For services to the community in Ōtara.
• Thomas Grace Tyrer – of
  Waikanae Beach
  . For services to agricultural journalism.
• John Thomas Voyle – of Cambridge. For services to sport.
• Alvin Harry Woolven JP – of Hamilton. For services to the dairy industry.

Military division

• Warrant Officer Richard Keith Berge – Royal New Zealand Navy
• Lieutenant Commander Victor William Fifield – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II Allan Harold Blackler – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Warrant Officer Class II Edwin Te Runa Chadwick – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Temporary Major and Quartermaster Clifford Raymond Parker –
  Royal New Zealand Engineers
  .
• Temporary Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Henry Pilling – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Squadron Leader Donald Bruce Dalzell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader William Henry Hillman – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Gordon Thompson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil division

• Eleanor Elizabeth Alden – of Dunedin. For services as a Plunket nurse.
• Thomas Ralph Birdsall – of Hamilton. For services to education and the community.
• William John Burton – of Gisborne. For services to sport, especially rifle shooting and archery.
• James Michael Cashman JP – of Tākaka. For services to the community.
• Jessie Lois Edwards – of Invercargill. For services to nursing.
• Carl Rubenstein Prime – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Keitha Beamish-White – of Rotorua. For services to the tourist industry.

Military division

• Chief Radio Mechanic Gary Raymond Cousins – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Peter Ernest Joseph Kneebone – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff Sergeant David George Arps – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Sergeant Roland Joseph Horopapera MM – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Temporary Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Arthur Nairn – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Temporary Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Richard Tristram – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
• Leading Aircraftman Michael Andrew Naus – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Awhetu Te Rangi Waiariki – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Companion of the Queen's Service Order (QSO)

For community service

• Riverton
  .
• James Garfield Johnson – of Auckland.
• Hilma Bjarn Moen – of Whakatāne,
• John Donald Murray SM – Magistrate's Chambers, Magistrate's Court, Dunedin.
• Baden Nolan Norris – of Christchurch.
• Esme Irene Tombleson – of Gisborne.

• 
  Garfield Johnson
• 
  Baden Norris

For public services

• Joyce Isobel Crowley – of New Plymouth.
• Dr Irwin Bruce Faris – of Auckland.
• Cecil William Franks MBE – of Wellington; lately Assistant to the Director-General of Agriculture.
• John Kennedy-Good JP – mayor of the City of Lower Hutt.
• Leon Abraham Manning JP – mayor of Onehunga
  .
• Charles Kenroy Munro JP – of Whangārei.
• Walter Ian Munro JP – of Taihape.
• Jack Rogers – of Auckland; superintendent, Mount Eden Prison, Department of Justice.

• 
  John Kennedy-Good

Queen's Service Medal (QSM)

For community service

• Eileen Lucy Barry – of Tauranga.
• Ronald Edward George Cameron – of Christchurch.
• Francis Herbert Cramer – of Inglewood.
• Elaine Roma Delicate – of Plimmerton.
• Henry John Bowling – of Hamilton.
• Catherine Ellen Hancox – of Whangārei.
• Ruth Heagney – of Blenheim.
• Hyacinth Jordan Jenkins – of Masterton.
• James Claude Percival Kirkland – of Invercargill.
• William Henry Ross Kydd JP – of Taumarunui.
• Myrtle Rita McElwain JP – of Papatoetoe.
• Rose McLaughlin – of Leeston.
• Foufouhetogia Marion McQuoid – of Auckland.
• Gordon John Alexander Nicholls – of Auckland.
• Barbara Mary Procter – of Auckland.
• Henry Coffield Bucknall Scott – of Stratford.
• Ivan Fletcher Somerville – of Balclutha.
• Ivan Stanicich – of Christchurch.
• Ahenata Taiapa – of Porirua.
• Maraea Anne Te Kawa JP – of Ruatoria.
• Violet Mary Tuanui – of Chatham Islands.
• Henry Arthur Wilkinson – of Upper Hutt.
• Kenneth Ernest Young – of Taupō.

For public services

• Nora Jean Bourke JP – of Auckland.
• Edith Isabel Charteris – of Wellington; associate to the Chief Justice.
• Victor James Crimp
  JP – of Dunedin.
• Patricia Ellen Curtis – of Whangārei.
• John Williamson Dryden Hall JP – of Orewa.
• Leslie Robertson Hercus – of Dunedin.
• Cyril George Imrie – of Foxton Beach; lately Works Supervisor, Ministry of Works and Development, RNZAF Base Ohakea.
• Albert Melbourne Latta JP – of Ngāruawāhia.
• Taylor Samuel Mihaere JP – of Palmerston North.
• Leith Fennor Miles – senior sergeant, New Zealand Police.
• Veronica Denise Sexton – of Wellington; supervising shorthand typist, Department of Justice.
• Douglas Gilbert Simes – of Christchurch; transmission superintendent (Canterbury),
  New Zealand Electricity Department
  , Islington.

Queen's Fire Service Medal (QFSM)

• Emrys Griffith Evans – chief fire officer (area commander), New Zealand Fire Service, Rotorua.
• Samuel Brown Irvine – chief executive (technical), New Zealand Fire Service Commission, Wellington.
• Robert Stanley Skipage – lately chief fire officer, Featherston Volunteer Fire Brigade.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Robert Neville Cuthbert – constable, New Zealand Police.
• Laurence Ferguson Smith – sergeant, New Zealand Police.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Wing Commander Donald William Pawson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Medal (AFM)

• Sergeant Christopher Leonard Frederick Knight – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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