1950 New Year Honours

The 1950 New Years Honours were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 2 January 1950 for the British Empire,^[1] New Zealand,^[2] India,^[3] and Ceylon.^[4]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

United Kingdom

Viscount

• The Right Honourable Sir Albert Victor Alexander, C.H., LL.D., M.P., Minister of Defence. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1929–1931; 1940–1945; 1945–1948. Member of Parliament for the Hillsborough Division of Sheffield, 1922–1931; and since 1935.

Baron

• Sir (Alexander) Steven Bilsland, Bt., M.C., LL.D. For public services in Scotland.
• Thomas William Burden, Esq., C.B.E., J.P., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Park Division of Sheffield since 1942. Second Church Estates Commissioner since 1945. For political and public services.
• Leslie Haden-Guest, Esq., M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.P., Member of Parliament for Southwark North, 1923 and 1924, and for Islington North since 1927. For political and public services.
• Joseph Henderson, Esq., J.P., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Ardwick Division of Manchester, June-October, 1931, and since 1935. A Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury since 1945.
• The Right Honourable John Wilmot, M.P., Member of Parliament for East Fulham, 1931-1935; for Kennington, 1935-1945; and for Deptford since 1945. Minister of Supply, 1945-1947. For political and public services.

Privy Counsellor

• Sir Ronald Ian Campbell, G.C.M.G., C.B., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Cairo.
• The Honourable Edward James Holloway, lately Minister for Labour and National Service in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable Don Stephen Senanayake. Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and External Affairs of Ceylon.

Knight Bachelor

• Robert Henry Adcock, Esq., C.B.E., Clerk of the Lancashire County Council.
• Colin Skelton Anderson, Esq., President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom.
• Harold Esmond Arnison Boldero, Esq., D.M., F.R.C.P., Dean of the Medical School, Middlesex Hospital. Registrar, Royal College of Physicians.
• Professor Arthur Lyon Bowley, C.B.E., Sc.D., D.Litt. For services to the study of statistics and economics.
• Leslie Stuart Brass, Esq., C.B.E., Legal Adviser, Home Office.
• Andrew Meikle Bryan, Esq., M.I.Min.E., H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, Esq., D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A., Deputy Chairman, Public School Governing Bodies Association. For services to education.
• Colonel Robert Chapman, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., T.D., F.C.A., Chairman, Finchale Abbey Training Centre for the Disabled, County Durham.
• John Alexander Charles, Esq., M.D., F.R.CJP., Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
• Henry Laurence Urling Clark, Esq., lately Chairman of the Council of the Stock Exchange.
• Cuthbert Barwick Clegg, Esq., Vice-president, British Employers' Confederation.
• John Ninian Comper, Esq., Architect.
• John Albert Godfrey, Esq., Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Philip Hendy, Esq., Director of the National Gallery.
• John Dunlop Imrie, Esq., C.B.E., J.P., City Chamberlain of Edinburgh.
• Charles George Maby, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Constable of Bristol. -
• William McGilvray, Esq., C.B.E., National Coal Supplies Officer.
• Edward Bertram Monkhouse, Esq., C.B.E., Timber Controller, Board of Trade.
• Horace Alvarez De Courcy Pereira, Esq., Senior Registrar, Principal Probate Registry.
• Judge John Seymour Blake-Reed, O.B.E., lately Senior British Judge of the Egyptian Mixed Court of Appeal.
• Arthur Sims, Esq. For services to medicine and education in the British Commonwealth.
• Professor Arthur George Tansley, F.R.S., Chairman of the Nature Conservancy.
• Harold Vincent Tewson, Esq., C.B,E., M.C., General Secretary, Trades Union Congress.
• William Willis Dalziel Thomson, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.L., Professor of Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast.
• Ralph Lilley Turner, Esq., M.C., Litt.D., F.B.A., Director, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
• John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams, Esq., Chairman of Courtaulds, Ltd. For public services.
• Richard Ernest Yeabsley, Esq., C.B.E., F.C.A., F.S.A.A., Accountant Adviser to the Board of Trade and the Central Price Regulation Committee.

State of South Australia

• Eric Millhouse, Esq., K.C. For public services in the State of South Australia.
• Thomas George Wilson, Esq., C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.S. (Ed.), Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia. For public and philanthropic services.

State of Victoria

• The Honourable James Arthur Kennedy, Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. For public services.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• Robert Beacroft Barker, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Jamaica.
• Theo Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Western Provinces, Nigeria.
• Charles Edward Mortimer, Esq., C.B.E. Member for Health and Local Government, Kenya.
• Sidney John Saint, Esq., C.M.G, O.B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D., Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Barbados.
• Newnham Arthur Worley, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, British Guiana.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

• Admiral Sir Arthur John Power, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.V.O.
• Field Marshal Sir William Joseph Slim, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Special List (ex Indian Army).
• Sir William Scott Douglas, K.C.B., K.B.E., Secretary, Ministry of Health.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral The Honourable Cyril Eustace Douglas-Pennant, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Vice-Admiral Edward Desmond Bewley Mccarthy, C.B., D.S.O.
• General Sir Evelyn Hugh Barker, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., A.D.C. (Gen.), late Infantry.
• Lieutenant-General John Francis Martin Whiteley, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Air Marshal Sir Alec Coryton, K.B.E., C.B., M.V.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders, K.B.E., C.B., M.C., D.F.C., M.M., Royal Air Force.
• Frank Godbould Lee, Esq., C.M.G., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Food.
• Sir Frank Aubrey Newsam, K.B.E., C.V.O., M.C., Permanent,Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department.
• Robert Leslie Overbury, Esq., C.B., Clerk of the Parliaments.
• Sir George Wilfred Turner, K.B.E., C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, War Office.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral Edmund Walter Anstice.
• Rear-Admiral (L) Stuart Latham Bateson, C.B.E., A.M.I.E.E.
• Instructor Captain William Alfred Bishop, O.B.E., Royal Navy.
• Rear-Admiral Charles Philip Clarke, D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral (E) William Godfrey Cowland.
• Rear-Admiral Eric William Longley Longley-Cook, C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral Cecil Aubrey Lawson Mansergh, D.S.C.
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Joseph Archibald Maxwell, C.V.O., C.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.S.(Ed.), K.H.S. (Retired).
• Rear-Admiral Angus Dacres Nicholl, C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Brigadier Edward Gordon Audland, C.B.E., M.C. (17850), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General William Maurice Broomhall, D.S.O., O.B.E. (13364), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Reginald Llewellyn Brown, C.B.E. (12055), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Archibald James Halkett Cassels, C.B.E., D.S.O. (36316), late Infantry.
• Major-General Ronald Basil Bowen Bancroft Cooke, C.B.E., D.S.O. (403), late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major-General Maurice Nelson Dewing, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. (13421), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Harold John Higgins, O.B.E., F.D.S., K.H.D.S. (15754), late Royal Army Dental Corps.
• Brigadier Cecil Edward Ronald Ince, C.B.E., late Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major-General Albert Percy Lambooy, O.B.E. (12085), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General (temporary) Francis Robert Henry Mollan, O.B.E., M.C. (5666), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Brigadier William Carden-Roe, C.B.E., M.C. (8228), late Infantry.
• Major-General William Arthur Scott, C.B.E. (11948), late Royal Corps of Signals.
• Brigadier Charles Roger Alan Swynnerton, D.S.O., A.D.C. (438), late Infantry.
• Air Vice-Marshal David Vaughan Carnegie, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Edgar James Kingston-McCloughry, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Terence Charles St Clessie Morton, O.B.E., M.D., Ch.B., F.R.C.P., D.P.H., D.P.M., D.T.M. and H., K.H.P., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Claude Bernard Raymond Pelly, C.B.E., M.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Charles Basil Slater Spackman, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Leslie John Vernon Bates, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore John Francis Titmas, C.B.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain John Oliver William Oliver, D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Colonel Douglas Stephenson Branson, D.S.O., M.C., T.D., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, West Riding of Yorkshire.
• Reuben Kelf-Cohen, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Francis Alfred Enever, Esq., M.C., LL.D., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.
• George Herbert Fretwell, Esq., M.I.C.E., Director-General of Works, Air Ministry.
• Alexander Glen, Esq., M.C., Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
• Arthur Hulin Gosling, Esq., Director-General, Forestry Commission.
• William Graham, Esq., M.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Robert Lowe Hall, Esq., Director, Economic Section, Cabinet Office.
• Stewart Scott Hall, Esq., M.Sc., F.R.Ae.S., Director-General of Technical Development (Air), Ministry of Supply.
• Laurence Norman Helsby, Esq., Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.
• Owen Haddon Wansbrough-Jones, Esq., O.B.E., Ph.D., Scientific Adviser to the Army Council.
• Eric Denyer Marris, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education.
• Edward Francis Muir, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works.
• Alfred John Newling, Esq., C.B.E., M.V.O., T.D., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
• Victor George Shepheard, Esq.,. M.I.N.A., Deputy Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty.
• Stephen Shipley Wilson, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Alfred John Digby Winnifrith, Esq., Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• John Ernest Yates, Esq., C.B.E., D.C.M., Director of Postal Services, General Post Office.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• Sir John Hathorn Hall, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Uganda.
• Sir David Victor Kelly, K.C.M.G., M.C., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

• George Lewis French Bolton, Esq., Executive Director, International Monetary Fund.
• Stephen Lewis Holmes, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., Second Secretary, Board of Trade.
• The Honourable Sir Robert James Hudson, C.M.G., M.C., Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia, and Acting Governor of the Colony on several occasions.
• Charles Roy Price, Esq., C.M.G., High Commissioner in New Zealand for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
• Christopher William Machell Cox, Esq., C.M.G., Adviser on Education to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Harold Anthony Caccia, Esq., C.M.G., until recently a Deputy Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, now His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna.
• Pierson John Dixon, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Prague.
• James Leishman Dodds, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Lima.
• Harold Lister Farquhar, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Stockholm.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Brigadier John Ashworth Barraclough, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., Deputy Regional Commissioner, Land North Rhine, Westphalia, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Robert Birley, Esq., lately Educational Adviser to the Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Victor Spencer Butler, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Alexander Kirkland Cairncross, Esq., Ph.D., lately Economic Adviser, Board of Trade.
• Allan Christelow, Esq., Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury Delegation to Washington.
• Major John Ronald McCrindle, O.B.E., M.C., Member of the Board of British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• Philip Eric Millbourn, Esq., M.I.Mech.E., Adviser on Shipping in Port, Ministry of Transport.
• Alec Stephen Warren, Esq., Director of Canned Fish, Fruit and Vegetables, and Wholesale Trade Adviser, Ministry of Food.
• Edward Betham Beetham, Esq., C.V.O., O.B.E., Resident Commissioner of Swaziland.
• Russell John Dumas, Esq., M.Eng., M.Inst.C.E., Director of Works, State of Western Australia.
• William Aitken Brown Hamilton, Esq., an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Alderman Richard Olver Harris, J.P., Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart, State of Tasmania.
• Arthur Vincent Aston, Esq., M.C.; Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, Penang, Federation of Malaya.
• Kenneth William Blaxter, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Emanuel Camilleri, Esq., O.B.E., Secretary to the Maltese Imperial Government.
• Charles Young Carstairs, Esq., Administrative Secretary, Office of the Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies.
• James Cheyne, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for African Affairs, Tanganyika.
• William Johnston, Esq., Colonial Customs Service, Commissioner of Customs and Excise, East Africa High Commission.
• Anthony Bernard Killick, Esq., Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Uganda.
• Clement John Pleass, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Development Secretary, Nigeria.
• Patrick Muir Renison, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Trinidad.
• John Montague Stow, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator of Saint Lucia, Windward Islands.
• Brewster Joseph Surridge, Esq., O.B.E., Adiviser on Co-operation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Cecil James Thomas, Esq., Financial Secretary, Cyprus.
• Neil Archibald Campbell Weir, Esq., O.B.E., E.D., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Commissioner, Gambia.
• Alexander Thomas Williams, Esq., M.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Secretary, Northern Rhodesia.
• William Denis Allen, Esq., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
• Geoffrey Herbert Barter, Esq., Director of Establishments, Sudan Government.
• Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows, Esq., Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office.
• Walter Fergusson Crawford, Esq., O.B.E., Head of the Development Division, British Middle East Office, Cairo.
• George Edmond Crombie, Esq., lately Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Rangoon.
• David John Footman, Esq., M.C., attached to the Foreign Office.
• William Murray Graham, Esq., C.B.E., lately Judge of the Mixed Court of Appeal, Egypt.
• John Henry Keswick, Esq., a British subject resident in China.
• Laurence Brouncker Southey Larkins, Esq., O.B.E., Counsellor (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy at The Hague.
• Francis Ralph Hay Murray, Esq., Head of the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office.
• William John Sullivan, Esq., C.B.E., British Political Adviser to the Commander, British-United States Zone, Free Territory of Trieste.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

• The Right Honourable Boyd, Baron Merriman, O.B.E., LL.D.
• Colonel Sir Henry Davies Foster MacGeagh, K.C.B., K.B.E., T.D., K.C.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Harold Kingston Graham Hodgson, Esq., C.V.O., F.R.C.P., M.B., B.S., D.M.R.E.
• The Very Reverend Charles Laing Warr, C.V.O., D.D.
• Norman Richard Combe Warwick, Esq., C.V.O., O.B.E.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• The Honourable George Rothe Bellew, M.V.O.
• Brigadier Ivan De la Bere, C.B.E.
• Patrick Graham Toler Kingsley, Esq.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

• Holroyd Ferris Chambers, Esq.
• William McIntosh, Esq., M.V.O.
• Roy Robinson, Esq.
• Herbert Arthur Charlie Sturgess, Esq.
• Hugh Walter Kingwell Wontner, Esq.

• William Anthony Beck, Esq., M.B.E.
• John Stuart Bordewich, Esq.
• Arthur Edward Pottinger, Esq.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

• Admiral Sir Robert Lindsay Burnett, K.C.B, K.B.E., D.S.O.
• Sir (Arthur) Malcolm Trustram Eve, Bt., M.C., T.D., K.C., lately Chairman, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
• The Right Honourable Giles Stephen Holland, Earl of Ilchester , O.B.E., D.Litt., F.S.A. For services to Art and Letters.
• Sir Donald St Clair Gainer, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Warsaw.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

• Miss Jocelyn May Woollcombe, C.B.E., Hon. A.D.C., Director, Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Madame Adeline Genée, Mus. Doc. (Mrs. Genée-Isitt), President of the Royal Academy of Dancing. For services to the ballet.
• Miss Olive Annie Wheeler, D.Sc., Professor of Education, and Dean of the Faculty of Education, University College of South Wales, Cardiff.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

• Vice-Admiral Randolph Stewart Gresham Nicholson, C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.
• Lieutenant-General George Watkin Eben James Erskine, C.B., D.S.O., late Infantry.
• Lieutenant-General Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-General Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., B.A., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Air Vice-Marshal Alexander Paul Davidson, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Anthony Lauderdale Paxton, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Frederick Brundrett, Esq., C.B., Chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service.
• James Ian Cormack Crombie, Esq., C.M.G., Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Reginald Hector Franklin, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell, J.P. For services to Local Government.
• Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe, C.B.E., D.L., Director, War Office.
• Cyril Hubert Cane, Esq., C.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Rabat.
• Robert William Urquhart, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai.
• Thomas Ernest Victor Hurley, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., V.D., M.D., F.R.C.S., of the State of Victoria. For public services.
• Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Singapore.
• Eric Westbury Thompstone, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Northern Provinces, Nigeria.

Honorary KBE

• Adesoji Aderemi, C.M.G., Oni of Ife, First Class Chief, Nigeria.

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New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• Alexander Howat Johnstone OBE KC – vice president of the New Zealand Law Society for many years. For public services.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• William Hollis Cocker – of Auckland. For outstanding services in the fields of university administration and adult education.
• Eric Howard Manley Luke MB ChB – a surgeon at the Wellington Public Hospital for over 25 years and chairman of the Council, British Medical Association (New Zealand branch).

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

Civil Division

• John Robert McKenzie – of Christchurch. For public and philanthropic services.

Military Division

• Air Vice-Marshal Arthur de Terrotte Nevill CB CBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• James Cummings – Commissioner of Police, New Zealand.
• Mary Isabel Lambie OBE – director, Nursing Division, Department of Health, for the past 18 years.
• Frederick George Soper PhD DSc FRIC – professor of chemistry, University of Otago. For public services.

Military Division

• Brigadier William George Gentry DSO OBE – Adjutant-General, New Zealand Military Forces, and Second Military Member of the Army Board, New Zealand.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Harold Edward Annett DSc. For valuable services in connexion with agricultural and scientific research in New Zealand.
• Clifford Oswald Bell – of Wellington, Dominion vice president of the Returned Services Association.
• John Bitchener – of Waimate. For municipal and public services.
• Helen McDonald Findlay – matron in charge of the Templeton Home for Backward Children, Christchurch.
• Robert Searson Rodney Francis MB ChB – of Hastings. For services to the community in connexion with the treatment of tuberculosis.
• Herbert Hill – of Christchurch. For valuable services during the war years as organiser and controller of the wool appraisal system.
• Wharemaihi Hotu – of Hangatiki, King Country. For services to the Māori people as an elder of the Maniapoto tribe.
• The Reverend John James North DD. For services to the Baptist organisation in New Zealand.
• Sydney Bach Smith – chairman, Dunedin branch, Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League, since 1931.

Military Division

• Commander Richard Everley Washbourn DSO – Royal Navy.
• Wing Commander William Glanville Woodward – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Miss Sybil Mary Beresford – matron in charge of Tuapeka Public Hospital for the past 25 years.
• Mrs Maud Booth Bowyer – of Honikiwi, Otorohanga County. For patriotic services.
• David Hazeel Cockburn – of Wharehuanui. For services in connexion with local body affairs for many years.
• Wilfred John Davies – of Oamaru. For services to the St John's Ambulance Brigade during the past 43 years.
• Mrs Winefride Mary Dive JP – of Wellington, secretary, Society for the Protection of Women and Children.
• Miss Ethel Mary Le Lievre. For social welfare services in the Akaroa district.
• Thomas McGhie – of Ngakawau. For services as superintendent of the Buller State Mines and in connexion with the establishment of the community centre movement for miners.
• Miss Margaret Vivien Miller. For services in connexion with voluntary relief work in the Nelson district during the past 30 years.
• Mrs Elsie Mitchell – of Wellington. For services to the Red Cross, Children's Health Camps, and patriotic bodies.
• Miss Irene Grace Owen – matron in charge of the maternity annex at the Memorial Hospital, Hastings, for 20 years.
• Ikahara Rapana – of Hastings. For social welfare services rendered to the Māori people, particularly in the Church of England sphere.
• Seymour Percy Spiller – of Napier. For social welfare services.
• Albert James Stratford JP – of Auckland. For services in connexion with the Justices of the Peace Association since 1918.
• Mrs Ina Coralie Wilks ARRC – matron in charge of St Dunstan's Hospital, Auckland.

Military Division

• Lieutenant (S) Thomas Lewis Luckman – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Stanley Austin Higgs – senior commissioned wardmaster, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Honorary Captain Cecil Herbert Hoskin – New Zealand Territorial Force.
• Warrant Officer 1st Class William Sampson Valentine – Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.
• Flight Lieutenant Sidney Maxwell Hope – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Richard Hermann Simpson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division

• Chief Engine Room Artificer Percival Roland Honton – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Ivan Cassell Brown – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic John Edward Leon Sevi – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer Keith Leonard Wadham – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Master-at-Arms William Vernon Cyril Hogan – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Joan Pamela Smith – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Flight Sergeant Hilton Bravener Fowler – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Frankin Gibbs – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant James Ernest Charles Price – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Jean Mary Murtagh – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Royal Red Cross

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

• Charge Sister Phyllis Irene Johnston – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flight Lieutenant Alwyn Lennox Parlane – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

1. British Empire :The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38797. pp. 1–34. 30 December 1949. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
2. New Zealand :The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38798. pp. 35–38. 30 December 1949. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
3. India :The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38799. pp. 39–40. 30 December 1949. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
4. Ceylon :The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38800. pp. 41–42. 30 December 1949. Retrieved 5 March 2015.