1960 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1960 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 29 December 1959 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1960.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.^[2]

Recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honours.

United Kingdom

Viscount

• The Right Honourable John Durival, Baron Rochdale, O.B.E., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Cotton Board since 1957. President, National Union of Manufacturers, 1953–1956.

Baron

• The Honourable Sir Evelyn Baring, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., lately Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Kenya, and lately Chairman, East Africa High Commission.
• Sir George Horatio Nelson, Bt., Chairman, English Electric Company, Ltd.

Life Baron

• Sir Alfred Charles Bossom, Bt., Member of Parliament for Maidstone, 1931–1959. For political and public services.
• The Right Honourable Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Member of Parliament for Peckham, 1924–1929 and for Bishop Auckland, 1929–1931 and 1935–1959. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1929–1931; Minister of Economic Warfare, 1940–1942; President of the Board of Trade, 1942–1945; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1945–1947; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1948–1950; Minister of Town and Country Planning, 1950–1951; Minister of Local Government and Planning, 1951. For political and public services.

Privy Counsellor

• David Vivian Penrose, Baron Brecon, Minister of State for Welsh Affairs since 1957.
• John Dennis Profumo, Esq., O.B.E., M.P., Member of Parliament for Kettering, 1940–1945 and for Stratford-on-Avon since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, 1952–1953; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1953–1957; Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1957–1958; Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, December 1958-January 1959; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since January 1959.
• Sir Roland Welensky, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Baronet

• Donald Kaberry, Esq., T.D., M.P., Member of Parliament for North-West Leeds since 1950. Assistant Government Whip, 1952–1955; Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade, 1955. Joint Vice-Chairman, Conservative Party Organisation since 1955. For political and public services.
• John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Reigate since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, 1957; Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1957–1959. For political and public services.
• George Richard Hodges Nugent, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Guildford since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1951–1957; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1957–1959. For political and public services.
• Sir James Paterson Ross, K.C.V.O., M.S., P.R.C.S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Samuel Storey, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Sunderland, 1931–1945 and for Stretford since 1950. For political and public services.

Knight Bachelor

• Harold Walter Bailey, Esq., Professor of Sanskrit, University of Cambridge.
• Albert Frederick Bradbeer, Esq., J.P., Alderman, Birmingham City Council.
• Richard Frank Burnand, Esq., C.B.E., Senior Master, Queen's Bench Division, and Queen's Remembrancer, Supreme Court of Judicature.
• Professor Andrew Moynihan Claye, M.D., F.R.C.S., President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
• Robert Annesley Wilkinson Dent, Esq., C.B., lately Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons.
• Derrick Melville Dunlop, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, O.B.E., T.D., D.L. For political and public services in the North of England.
• Myer Galpern, Esq., J.P., M.P., Lord Provost of Glasgow.
• William Henry Glanville, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Director, Road Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Colonel Douglas Glover, T.D., M.P., Member of Parliament for Ormskirk since 1953. For political and public services in North-West England.
• John Hammond, Esq., C.B.E., Agricultural Scientist.
• Thomas Hargreaves, Esq. For political and public services in Lancashire.
• Thomas Winlack Harley, Esq., M.B.E., M.C. For political and public services in Lancashire and Cheshire.
• Roger Henry Hollis, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., attached War Office.
• Roger Antony Hornby, Esq. For political and public services in London.
• Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Hastings since 1945. For political and public services.
• Joseph Latham, Esq., C.B.E. Deputy Chairman, National Coal Board.
• David Treharne Llewellyn, Esq., Member of Parliament for Cardiff, North, 1950–1959. Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1951–1952. For political and public services.
• Joseph Flawith Lockwood, Esq., Chairman, Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd.
• Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, Esq. Quain Professor of Physics, University College, London.
• Ronald Peter Morison, Esq., Q.C. For political and public services.
• Duncan Morris Oppenheim, Esq., Chairman, British American Tobacco Company, Ltd.
• Karl Theodore Parker, Esq., C.B.E., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
• Alderman Ralph Edgar Perring, lately Sheriff of the City of London.
• Major-General Geoffrey Taunton Raikes, C.B., D.S.O., lately H.M. Lieutenant of the County of Brecknock.
• Leon Edgar Stephens, Esq., C.B.E., D.L., Clerk of the Warwickshire County Council.
• John Barton Townley, Esq., For political and public services in Preston.
• Charles Frederick Trustam, Esq., Chief General Manager, Royal Insurance Company, Ltd.
• Arthur Bertram Waring, Esq., D.L., Chairman and Managing Director, Joseph Lucas (Industries), Ltd.
• David Lumsden Webster, Esq., General Administrator, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
• Gwilym Ffrangcon Williams, Esq., C.B.E., Vice-Chairman, National Savings Committee.

State of Victoria

• William Wallace Stewart Johnston, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., E.D., M.D., of the State of Victoria; in recognition of his work for Post-Graduate Education in Medicine.

State of Queensland

• William Labatt Payne, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., President of the Land Court, State of Queensland.

State of South Australia

• The Honourable Charles Arthur Hillas Lempriere Abbott, a Judge of the Supreme Court, State of South Australia.
• The Honourable Cecil Stephen Hincks, Minister of Lands, Minister of Repatriation, and Minister of Irrigation, State of South Australia.

State of Western Australia

• Richard Greenslade Moore, Esq., O.B.E., Mayor of Kalgoorlie, State of Western Australia, since 1937.

Southern Rhodesia

• Ralph John Morton, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., M.C., formerly a Judge of the High Court of Southern Rhodesia.

Commonwealth Relations

• John Douglas Keith Brown, Esq., Managing Director of Messrs Jardine Henderson, Limited. For services to the United Kingdom community in India.
• Hamilton Macaulay, Esq., C.B.E., a Company Director, of Chittagong, East Pakistan. For services to United Kingdom interests in Pakistan.

Overseas Territories

• Alastair Granville Forbes, Esq., Vice-President, Eastern African Court of Appeal.
• Charles Herbert Hartwell, Esq., C.M.G., Chief Secretary, Uganda.
• Anthony Joseph Mamo, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal, Malta.
• Cecil Rex Niven, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., Commissioner for Special Duties, Northern Region, Nigeria.
• Colin Raeburn, Esq., C.B.E. For public services in Cyprus.
• Thomas Murray Shankland, Esq., C.M.G., Chairman of the London Board of the Public Service Commission, Western Region, Nigeria.
• George Evelyn Sinclair, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Deputy Governor, Cyprus.
• Alexander Moody Stuart, Esq., O.B.E., M.C. For public services in the Leeward Islands.

Order of the Bath

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

• General Sir Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., A.D.C.(Gen.), Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Roger Mellor Makins, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., lately Joint Permanent Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral John David Luce, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E.
• Vice-Admiral Douglas Eric Holland-Martin, C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.
• Lieutenant-General Charles Phibbs Jones, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Air Marshal Hector Douglas McGregor, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Marshal Wallace Hart Kyle, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Ludovic James Dunnett, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Douglas Murdo Beaton, O.B.E., Q.H.P., L.R.C.P. & S.
• Rear-Admiral Dennis Royle Farquharson Cambell, D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral Desmond Parry Dreyer, C.B.E., D.S.C.
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral (D) Charles Joseph Finnigan, Q.H.D.S., L.D.S.
• Rear-Admiral Peter William Gretton, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral Walter Frederick Boyt Lane, D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral Hector Charles Donald Maclean, D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral Ronald Wilson Paffard, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Robert Francis Storrs.
• Rear-Admiral John Yelverton Thompson.
• Major-General Stuart Hedley Molesworth Battye, late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Gerald Charles Hopkinson, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major-General John Francis Metcalfe, C.B.E., late Infantry. Colonel, The Queens Royal Surrey Regiment.
• Major-General Henry Quinlan, Q.H.D.S., B.D.S., late Royal Army Dental Corps.
• Major-General Frank McLean Richardson, D.S.O., O.B.E., Q.H.S., M.D., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Dennis Edmund Blacquiere Talbot, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry. Colonel, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
• Major-General George Arthur Thomas, C.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Thomas Frederick Mackie Woods, O.B.E., Q.H.P., M.D., M.R.C.P.(I), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Acting Air Marshal Samuel Charles Elworthy, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Edouard Michael Fitzfrederick Grundy, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Robert William Lowry Glenn, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Thomas Norman Coslett, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Edward Mortlock Donaldson, C.B.E., D.S.O., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Edward Gordon Jones, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Commodore Richard Templeton Gething, O.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Commodore Richard Ian Jones, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Colonel Lindsay William Saul Blackmore, T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
• Richard Charles Bryant, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Alec Fulton Charles Clark, Esq., Under-Secretary, Scottish Home Department.
• Charles Sigmund Davis, Esq., Legal Adviser and Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Laurence George Gale, Esq., O.B.E., Director-General of Armament Production, War Office.
• Ernest John Meadon, Esq., Under-Secretary and Accountant-General, Ministry of Power.
• Michael Israel Michaels, Esq., Under-Secretary, Office of the Minister for Science.
• Roger Nathaniel Quirk, Esq., Under-Secretary, Office of the Minister of Science.
• James Henderson Waddell, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
• Robert Hendry Weir, Esq., Director-General of Engine Research and Development, Ministry of Aviation.
• Hector Ford Willis, Esq., Chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service.
• Frank Wood, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
• Commander Richard Colville, C.V.O., D.S.C., Royal Navy (Retired), Press Secretary to The Queen.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

• Sir Christopher Eden Steel, K.C.M.G., M.V.O., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Bonn.

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

• Sir Philip Robert Morris, C.B.E., lately Chairman of the Commonwealth Education Conference. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol.
• Sir Dick Goldsmith White, K.B.E. For official services.
• The Honourable Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, O.B.E., Governor of Southern Rhodesia.
• Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, C.M.G. For Commonwealth Services.
• Geoffrey Walter Nye, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Adviser on Agriculture to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Richard Hugh Sedley Allen, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Rangoon.
• Ponsonby Moore Crosthwaite, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Beirut.

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

• Denzil Arnold Bryan, Esq., O.B.E., Senior United Kingdom Trade Commissioner in Pakistan.
• Philip Marion Kirby Green, Esq., attached War Office.
• Thomas Harvatt, Esq., Secretary, Council of Legal Education, and Deputy Director, Inns of Court School of Law.
• Ralph Elliott Stedman, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Frank Brewer, Esq., O.B.E., formerly Secretary for Defence, Federation of Malaya.
• The Honourable Rutherford Campbell Guthrie. For political and public services in the State of Victoria.
• Allan Walton Knight, Esq., Chief Commissioner of the Hydro-Electric Commission, State of Tasmania.
• Franklin James Morgan, Esq., of Clayfield, State of Queensland. For public services.
• Stanley Ernest Morris, Esq., Secretary for Native Affairs and Chief Native Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia.
• Charles Michael Walker, Esq., an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Philip Carrel, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Secretary, Somaliland Protectorate.
• Diarmaid William Conroy, Esq., O.B.E., T.D., Q.C., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Legal Affairs, and Solicitor-General, Kenya.
• Joseph Leslie Cundall, Esq., Q.C., Attorney-General, Jamaica.
• Sir George Edwin Douglas Duntze, Bt., Provincial Commissioner, Uganda.
• Chief Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, Federal Minister of Finance, Federation of Nigeria.
• Alexander Falconer Giles, Esq., M.B.E., Administrator, St. Vincent, Windward Islands.
• Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard, Esq., M.B.E., Provincial Commissioner, Nyasaland.
• Sir James Henry, Bt., M.C., Attorney-General, Cyprus.
• Edward Walter Moyle Magor, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Chief Secretary, Kenya.
• Charles Watt Michie, Esq., O.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Region, Nigeria.
• Edward Walter Russell, Esq., Director, East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organization, East African High Commission.
• Alan Roe Snelus, Esq., Deputy Chief Secretary, Sarawak.
• John Daniel Stringer, Esq., Senior Commissioner, Zanzibar.
• Andrew Urquhart, Esq., M.B.E., Deputy Governor, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
• Victor George Vella, Esq., C.V.O., O.B.E., E.D., Commissioner-General for Malta in London.
• Noel Duncan Watson, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Bertram John Weston, Esq., Senior Commissioner, Cyprus.
• John Albert Briance, Esq., Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington.
• Denis Arthur Greenhill, Esq., O.B.E., lately Foreign Office.
• The Honourable Henry Arthur Alers Hankey, C.V.O., Foreign Office.
• Stephen Alexander Lockhart, Esq., O.B.E., Her Majesty's Consul-General, Leopoldville.
• Douglas John Brett Robey, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul-General, Cleveland.
• Thomas Edward Rogers, Esq., M.B.E., Counsellor (Economic/Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Belgrade.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Eugene Vincent Strickland, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.M., lately Joint Head, British Joint Services Mission, Jordan.
• Douglas Taylor, Esq., lately Counsellor (Labour), Her Majesty's Embassy, Rome.
• Peter Allix Wilkinson, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Bonn.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Ivan Whiteside Magill, Esq., C.V.O., M.B., B.Ch.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Lieutenant-Colonel The Most Honourable James Arthur Norman, The Marquess of Ormonde, M.C.
• James Pope-Hennessy, Esq.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

Fourth Class

• Agnes Barbara, Mrs Holland.
• Godfrey Walker Talbot, Esq., O.B.E.
• Commander Philip Alexander Watson, Royal Navy.

Fifth Class

• Dorothy Flossie, Mrs Bird.
• Major David Colville, M.B.E., The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
• Frank Edward Hart, Esq.
• John William Lewis, Esq.
• Superintendent Reginald Baden Mitchell.
• Alfred Joseph Quirk, Esq.
• Engineer Lieutenant Peter Henry Robinson, Royal Navy.
• Miss Elizabeth Anne Stevenson.

Order of the British Empire

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

• Admiral Sir Gerald Vaughan Gladstone, K.C.B.
• Lieutenant-General Sir (Edward) Ian Claud Jacob, K.B.E., C.B., Director-General, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Sir William Ivo Mallet, K.C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Madrid.

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

• Barbara Muriel, Mrs Brooke, Joint Vice-Chairman, Conservative Party Organisation since 1954. For political and public services.
• Alice Miriam, Mrs Berry, O.B.E., of Clayfield, State of Queensland. For services to country women and their organisations.

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

• Vice-Admiral William Kaye Edden, C.B., O.B.E. Instructor Rear-Admiral John FLEMING, D.S.C.
• Major-General William Gordon Roe, C.B., C.B.E., late Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major-General Henry Haskins Clapham Sugden, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Stuart Thompson, C.B., D.S.O., M.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Air Marshal Herbert Dorman Spreckley, C.B., O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Luis Worthington, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• The Right Honourable Nigel Ivan, Baron Forbes, Minister of State, Scottish Office, 1958–1959. For political and public services.
• Robert James Paterson Harvey, Esq., C.B., Deputy Director-General, General Post Office.
• Brigadier Henry Walter Houldsworth, D.S.O., M.C., T.D., President, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Moray. H.M. Lieutenant of the County of Moray.
• Sir Ambrose James Sherwill, C.B.E., M.C., Bailiff of Guernsey.
• Rear-Admiral Sir Matthew Sausse Slattery, C.B., Chairman and Managing Director, Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd. Until recently, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on the Transport of Middle East Oil.
• Geoffrey Warren Furlonge, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., lately Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Addis Ababa.
• Major Cyril Berkeley Ormerod, C.B.E., Director, Public Relations, British Information Services, New York.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Charles (Henry) Gairdner, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E., Governor of the State of Western Australia.
• Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, C.B.E., Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria.
• James Robbie Farquharson, Esq., C.B.E., General Manager, East African Railways and Harbours Administration, East Africa High Commission.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• The Right Honourable Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, M.P., Member of Parliament for Mid-Bedfordshire since 1931. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour, 1938–1939, Ministry of Home Security, 1939, Ministry of Food, 1939–1940, and Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1943–1945; Minister of State for the Colonies, 1951–1952; Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1952–1954; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1954–1959. For political and public services.

New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• George Alexander Currie – Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• John Cairney MD FRACS – Director-General of Health and Inspector-General of Hospitals.
• Henry John Wardell – chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

• Professor John Patrick Walsh MB BS – Dean of the University of Otago Dental School.

Military Division

• Major-General Cyril Ettrick Weir CB CBE DSO – Generals' List (Regular Force), New Zealand Army.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• Archibald Hugh Bogle – a member of the Survey Board for many years.
• Gerald William Lane – of Dunedin. For services to the manufacturing industry.
• Charles Archibald McFarlane – Director-General, Post and Telegraph Department.
• John Hugh Phillipps OBE JP – president of the management committee, Wellington Cricket Association.

Military Division

• Brigadier Arthur Beecher Bullen DSO ED – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Air Commodore Cameron Archer Turner OBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• James Walter Armstrong – Principal, Dunedin Teachers' Training College.
• Henry Oscar Askew – Assistant Director, Cawthron Institute, Nelson.
• Harry Ernest Brusey – of Wellington. For services to music.
• William John Cartwright – of Christchurch. For services to education.
• Charles Gilmour Stead Ellis – formerly Assistant Director of Education.
• Edward Grace Guy – of Rotorua. For services to journalism.
• Desmond James Hewitt – lecturer and examiner in law at Canterbury University College.
• Frederick Henry McDowall – chief chemist, Dairy Research Institute, Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North.
• John Morris Ranstead – of Waikato. For services to the farming industry.
• Hugh Ritchie JP – of Invercargill. For services to the community.
• Hokio Tarawhiti – of Huntly. For services to the Māori community.

Military Division

• Lieutenant-Colonel David John Aitken – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Richard Mitchell Scott Orbell – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Wing Commander Henry Christian Salmon – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• The Reverend Leo Vincent Downey – director of the Catholic Social Services in Auckland City.
• William John Elvy – of Blenheim. For services to the community in local body affairs.
• Ernest Hector Ferguson – of Wellington. For patriotic services.
• James Robertson Hair – of Gisborne. For services to the community in local body affairs.
• David Walter Reginald Heatley – Resident Commissioner, Niue Island.
• Leslie Alfred Higgins JP – of Nelson. For services to the community in local body administration.
• Edgar John Gordon Hotham. For services in the New Zealand Police.
• Claud William Barkley Huxford JP – of Wellington. For services to the community, especially in the field of education.
• Miss Catherine Agnes McGuire – of Timaru. For services to the community, especially in connection with the South Canterbury Children's Health Camp organisations.
• John Thomas Leslie McPhee – of Runanga. For services to the community, especially as organiser for the Grey District Blood Donors' Association.
• John Dawson Mahaffie – brigadier, Salvation Army (retired).
• Keith Mills – of Auckland. For services to the community, especially in connection with Returned and Home-servicemen's Associations.
• Miss Ruia Mereana Morrison – of Rotorua. For services in the field of sport, especially tennis.
• Rangi Kapo Ratahi – a leader of the Māori people in Taranaki.
• Mrs Alice Roberts JP – of Napier. For social welfare services.
• Mrs Isabella Enid Roberts – of Levin. For services to the community.
• George Walter Simon JP – secretary, Otago Tribal Executive, and honorary Māori welfare officer.
• Cyril John Benedict Williams JP – of Auckland. For services to the community in the field of sport.

Military Division

• Lieutenant-Commander (S.D.) Edward Herbert Biggs – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Robert Noel Barton ED – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Warrant Officer First Class John Cameron – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
• Major Louie Margaret Knights – The New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps (Regular Force).
• Major (temporary) Grenville Herbert Rush – Royal New Zealand Provost Corps (Territorial Force).
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Fraser Ward – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Edward Sheppard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

• Alfred Eric Bishoprick MM – lately overseer, Akatarawa, Kaitoke and Rimutaka highways.
• Arthur Burgess – Chief Prison Officer (First Class), Mount Eden Prison, Auckland.
• George Dynes – Constable, New Zealand Police Force.
• Ewan Gilbert Andrews Rippin – Detective Senior Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

Military Division

• Chief Petty Officer John Butler Allan – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Wren Lorna Evelyn Coles – Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
• Chief Joiner Anthony Martin Hobbs – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Engineering Mechanic Peter Frederick Willis Moss – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Corporal (temporary) David Elwin Dallow – Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps (Territorial Force).
• Warrant Officer Second Class (temporary) Thomas Dobson – The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers (Regular Force).
• Sergeant Lawrence Albert Earle Jacobs – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps (Regular Force).
• Bombardier (temporary) Bruce Mansell – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Territorial Force).
• Flight Sergeant Norman John Cooper – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Alison Jean Simpson – Women's Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Royal Red Cross

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

• Matron Elsie Margaret Webb – The Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (Regular Force).
• Charge Sister Rona Irene Rich – The Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (Regular Force).

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Owen David Staple DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Patrick Neville – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant John Alexander Laing – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

1. United Kingdom list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41909. pp. 1–35. 29 December 1959.
2. Australia list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41910. pp. 37–40. 29 December 1959.
3. New Zealand list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41911. pp. 41–43. 29 December 1959.
4. Ghana list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41912. p. 45. 29 December 1959.
5. Rhodesia and Nyasaland list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41913. pp. 47–48. 29 December 1959.