1946 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Commander (KCB)

Military Division

• Lieutenant-General (temporary) Edward Puttick, CB, DSO, New Zealand Military Forces.

• 
  Sir Edward Puttick

Companion (CB)

Military Division

• Brigadier (temporary) Leonard George Goss, New Zealand Military Forces.

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• Carl August Berendsen, CMG, LLM, New Zealand Minister to the United States of America, formerly Permanent Head of the Prime Minister's Department, Secretary of External Affairs and Secretary to the War Cabinet.

Companion (CMG)

• Bernard Carl Ashwin, Secretary to the Treasury.
• John Henry Boyes, Public Service Commissioner.
• Cyril George Collins, formerly Controller and Auditor-General.
• Ernest Marsden, CBE, MC, DSc, Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Francis Raymond Picot, Commissioner of Supply.

• 
  Ernest Marsden

Knight Commander (KBE)

Military Division

• Major-General (temporary) Fred Thompson Bowerbank, OBE, MC, ED, MD, FRCP (Edin.), FRACP, New Zealand Medical Corps, New Zealand Military Forces.
• Air Vice-Marshal Leonard Monk Isitt, CBE, Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Civil Division

• Alfred Clarke Turnbull, Administrator of the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa.

Commander (CBE)

Military Division

• Group Captain Trevor Watts White, ED, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Group Captain Gordon Hamish Martin Pirie, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Andrew Henson Allen. For patriotic, and social welfare services during his period of Office as Mayor of Dunedin.
• John Andrew Charles Allum, Mayor of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Ernest Herbert Andrews, Mayor of Christchurch. For social welfare and patriotic services.
• Eugene Casey, formerly General Manager, Railway's Department.
• Denis Joseph Cummings, Commissioner of Police.
• George Andrew Duncan, Director, Export Division, Marketing Department.
• David Emmet Fouhy, Official Secretary to the Governor-General.
• George Arthur Hayden, Secretary, National Patriotic Fund Board.
• James Stanley Hunter, Director of National Service and of the Organisation for National Development.
• William Marshall. For services to Industry and Commerce.
• Frederick Millett Sherwood, Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence.
• The Honourable Vincent Aubrey Ward, a Member of the Legislative Council. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• John George Young, formerly Director-General, Post and Telegraph Department.

• 
  Andrew Allen
• 
  John Allum
• 
  Vincent Ward

Officer (OBE)

Military Division

• Acting Commander John Churchill Elworthy, Royal Navy (Retd).
• Hermione Ruth Herrick, Chief Officer, Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.

New Zealand Military Forces

• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Douglas George Ball.
• Colonel (temporary) Arthur Bongard, MC.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Walter Archer Breach.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred John Coutts.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Henry Ernest Erridge.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Allen Hogan.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Frederick William Mothes, MBE.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Caswall John Walter Parsons.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Hugh Phillipps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Donald Swan.
• Colonel (temporary) Donald George Wallace, MB, ChB, New Zealand Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harry Waine Washbourn, New Zealand Dental Corps.
• Matron Katherine Sybil Williams (824306), New Zealand Army Nursing Service (attached to the Royal New Zealand Air Force).

Royal New Zealand Air Force

• Group Captain Frederick Russell Chisholm, MD, MRCS, FRCP.
• Wing Commander Edward Caradus (N.Z.1928).
• Acting Wing Commander John Matthias Gamble (N.Z.1158).
• Acting Wing Officer Elsie Naomi Carlyon (W.1100), New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Civil Division

• Annie Constance Affleck, Inspector, Office of the Public Service Commissioner.
• Lillian Banks, Matron, Palmerston North Public Hospital, and President of the Registered Nurses Association.
• Mary Jane Bentley, of Wellington. For services in organising women's war movements.
• John Balmain Brooke. For services in connection with the production of munitions.
• Cyril Blake Burdekin, MBE, a member of the staff of New Zealand High Commissioner in London. For services to the New Zealand prisoners of war organisation.
• Colonel Frederick William Burton, Field Secretary, and Secretary of the War Services Committee of the Salvation Army.
• Ronald Alan Candy, a Member of the National Council of Primary Production.
• Hector Christie. For patriotic and social welfare services in connection with the organisation of the Boy Scouts movement.
• The Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas Frederick Connolly, Chairman of the Catholic Services War Fund Board.
• Robert Darroch, Secretary, Navy League War Council.
• David Alexander Ewen, MBE, a Member of the Supply Council.
• Charles Stuart Falconer, Chairman, War Services Committee, Young Men's Christian Association.
• Clarence Richard Charles Gardiner. For patriotic and social welfare work on behalf of members of the New Zealand Armed Forces in India during the war.
• Elizabeth May Knox-Gilmer, of Wellington, Chairwoman of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild.
• Everard Robert Cranston Gilmour, Chairman of the New Plymouth Patriotic Council.
• Israel Joseph Goldstine, of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Len Joseph Greenberg, of the National Service Department.
• James Norman Greenland, a Member of the Supply Council.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Campbell Hemphill. For valuable public service in relation to the Māori War effort.
• Thomas William Hercock, Chairman of the Hawkes Bay Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Ailsa Craig Dalhousie Hislop, of Wellington. For services in connection with social welfare movements for women in the Armed Forces and Industry.
• Alfred Joseph Hutchinson, of Auckland. For services to the Blind.
• George Henry Jackson, a Member of the Supply Council.
• Bertram Joseph Jacobs, President of the New Zealand Returned Services Association. For valuable services in connection with the welfare of servicemen.
• Alexander Howat Johnstone, KC. For services in relation to the war effort.
• Arthur Selwyn Kempthorne, Secretary of the Church of England Military Affairs Committee.
• John Craigie Kirkness, Mayor of Oamaru. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Augustus Edward Mansford, Mayor of Palmerston North. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Robert Whiteford Marshall, Director of the New Zealand Supply ion in the United States of America.
• William Walter Mulholland, President of the Farmers' Union.
• Charles Norman Machell Watson-Munro, Director of the Radio Development Laboratory, Scientific and Industrial Research Department.
• Edgar Rollo Neale, Chairman of the Nelson Provincial Patriotic Council and Member of the Nelson Patriotic Fund Board.
• Walter Richard Newall, of Wellington. For services in connection with the National Savings Campaign.
• Robert Hamilton Nimmo. For patriotic and social welfare services during the war.
• Charles Henry Tarr Palmer, President of the Navy League in the City of Auckland.
• George Pascoe, of Wellington, Factory Controller.
• Robert Everett Price, a Member of the Waterfront Control Commission.
• Algernon Instone Rainbow, Chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Hastings.
• Barbara Reid, of Wellington. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the Armed Forces.
• Violet Agnes Russell. For honorary services rendered in connection with canteen and hospital work to members of the New Zealand Forces in London during the war.
• Sidney Rattery Skinner, Naval Affairs Officer for New Zealand in London.
• Thomas Norman Smallwood. For services in connection with the National Savings Campaign.
• Joseph Thomas Spears, of Wellington. For services to New Zealand prisoners of war.
• Kingi Tahiwi. For services in connection with the organisation of the Māori War effort.
• James Ewing Thomas, Foods Rationing Controller.
• Abraham Wachner, Mayor of Invercargill. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Charles Gilbert White. For services to the New Zealand Red Cross Society.
• Leonard John Wild, Principal Fielding Agricultural High School, and a Member of the National Council of Primary Production.
• Donald Macdonald Wilson, MC, MB, ChB. For services to the Casualty Clearing Hospital in the City of Wellington.
• Rupert Samuel Wogan. For public services throughout the war.

• 
  Edward Caradus
• 
  Elizabeth Knox-Gilmer
• 
  Edgar Neale

Member (MBE)

Military Division

Royal New Zealand Navy

• Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Richard Blampied, RNZNR.
• Mr. Cyril Carr, Senior Master, Royal Navy.
• Mary Eleanor Chesney, Third Officer, WRNZNS.
• Lieutenant-Commander Ralph Leslie Cross, VD, RNZVR (Retd).
• Temporary Lieutenant Arthur Lovat Fraser, DSC, RNZNR.
• Mr. Leslie Samuel George Martin, Temporary Warrant Engineer, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Commander Wybrante Olphert, RNZVR.
• Mr. John Norman Richards, Temporary Warrant Writer Officer, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Richard Tudor Roberts, VD, RNZNR.
• Temporary Lieutenant William Williamson, RNZVR.

New Zealand Military Forces

• Captain (temporary) Robert William Borland.
• Captain (temporary) (Quartermaster) William Edmonds.
• Captain (temporary) Percival Nowall Erridge.
• Captain William Charles Francis.
• Lieutenant Arthur William Herbert Gally.
• Senior Commander Dorothy May Hawkins, New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Major Geoffrey Hardurn Heal.
• Charge Sister Margaret Hitchcock, New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
• Major (temporary) (Quartermaster) Alan Holmes.
• Major (temporary) William James Birss Hunter.
• Major Francis John Martin.
• Warrant Officer Class I Thomas William Page.
• Major (temporary) Robert Harry Perrett.
• Major (temporary) (Quartermaster) Hans Christian Frithjof Peterson.
• Honorary Captain Charles Pike.
• Major Gavin Eugene Pollock.
• Captain William Vincent Quane.
• Captain (temporary) (Quartermaster) James Laurence Oliphant-Rowe.
• Captain Harry Gordon Remshardt Sedgley.
• Captain (temporary) (Quartermaster) William Frederick Sellen.
• Major Benjamin William Henry Smart.
• Captain Eden William Smith.
• Captain (Quartermaster) Albert De Bolton Peel Steward, MM.
• Senior Commander Mary Eulalie Whyte, New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Major (temporary) John Albert Worsnop.

Royal New Zealand Air Force

• Squadron Leader George Frederick Chippendale (N.Z.39302).
• Squadron Leader Murray Davy Nairn (N.Z.1425).
• Squadron Leader Alwyn Palmer (N.Z.29114).
• Squadron Leader Bruce Robert Rae (N.Z.1145).
• Acting Squadron Leader Cecil William Franks (N.Z.391534).
• Acting Squadron Leader Philip Edward Laughton-Bramley (74749), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
• Acting Squadron Leader Rawlings William McSkimming (N.Z.40137).
• Acting Squadron Leader Maurice Leonard Pirie (N.Z.1294).
• Flight Lieutenant John Ronald Day (N.Z.1292).
• Flight Lieutenant Maurice Colin Kain (N.Z.1599).
• Flight Lieutenant James Douglas Mackay (N.Z.1481).
• Acting Flight Lieutenant James Francis Sharkey (N.Z.1539).
• Flying Officer Claude Patrick Perrett (N.Z.36132).
• Warrant Officer William Arthur Everson (N.Z.639103).
• Warrant Officer Rex Bernard Robins (N.Z.391511).

Civil Division

• Joseph Abel. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Rebecca Isobel Victoria Aitken. For services to the Red Cross.
• Etta Elaine Allen. For services in connection with women's patriotic activities.
• Annie Allum. For services in connection with women's patriotic activities.
• Margaret Andrews. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Rose Appleton, a Member of the Lady Gaiway Patriotic Guild.
• Dorothy Annie Atmore. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• George John Blake Barber. For public services during the war.
• Margaret Mills Barclay. For services to the munitions industry.
• Doris Laura Barton. For services in organising woman's war activities.
• Jean Blacker, of Auckland. For public services during the war.
• Thomas Francis Patey Briggs, Shipping Officer, Naval Store Department, His Majesty's New Zealand Dockyard, Auckland.
• Ernest Escort Brooking, a Member of the National Patriotic Fund Board and of the Wellington Metropolitan Committee.
• Madeline Harriett Ledwell Browne, Confidential Typist, Prime Minister's Department.
• Margaret Sheila Bull, of Gisbome. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• Blanche Nima Burke. For voluntary services in London on behalf of New Zealand prisoners of war.
• James Leslie Burnett, of Whakatane. For patriotic, and social welfare work.
• Margaret Campbell, of Auckland. For patriotic services.
• Mabel Castle, Organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
• Charles Nicholas Cathie, of Wellington. For services to war industries.
• Gladys Chapman. For services in connection with women's war movements in the Hamilton District.
• Fred Evans Chappell, Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Trentham Military Camp.
• Jean Olgar Christianson, of Christchurch. For services to the munitions industry.
• Laurence Hugh Clapham, For patriotic and social welfare work during the war.
• Ada Vera Cocker, of Auckland. For services in connection with women's war movements.
• Agnes Connolly, of Dunedin. For services in connection with women's war activities.
• Doris Crawford, of Hastings. For social welfare services.
• Helen Iris Crooke, Head of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Division.
• George William Dell, of Christchurch. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• Annie Jean Dickinson. For services to the Casualty Clearing Hospital in the City of Wellington.
• Mary Manson Dreaver, of Auckland. For services in connection with recruiting for the Women's Land Army.
• The Reverend Arthur Rowley Ebbs. For social welfare services rendered to members of the New Zealand Forces in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Hewitt Edwards, of Auckland. For services to war industries.
• Arthur Richard Elcock, Chairman of the Westland Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Mary Ann Ellen. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Annie Allan, Lady Elliott, of Wellington. For services to the Order of St. John.
• Beryl Inez Ellis. For services in connection with the Patriotic Hut, Hamilton.
• Grace Mac Adam Evans. For services to the Red Cross.
• Elizabeth Maud Faithfull. For services to the Red Cross Emergency Precautions Service.
• Linda Ferguson. For social welfare services rendered to members of the New Zealand Forces in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Jeanie Gardner Fougere, MB, ChB. For services to women's war organisations.
• Meta Frances Fussell. For social welfare and patriotic work during the war.
• Ethel Marion Gould, of Auckland. For social welfare services to members of the New Zealand Military Forces.
• Laurie Oliver Hall. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Arthur Merlin Harding, New Zealand Police Force. For services rendered in relation to aliens prior to, and during the period of the war.
• Marie Henrietta Hargest, of Invercargill. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Minnie Gregory Havelaar, of Christchurch. For services in organising women's war movements.
• Mabel Roseline Heaphy. For services as organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
• Ottoline Valerie Hole, Commandant, Red Cross Transport Organisation, City of Wellington.
• Elsie Mary Hyslop, of Upper Hutt. For patriotic services during the war.
• Violet Ivy Inkster, Chairman, Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• William Montrose Jenkins, Honorary Secretary, Gisborne Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Agnes Gilmour Kent-Johnston, of Hastings. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Frederick Johnson, Assistant Secretary, Department of Industry and Commerce, and Deputy Chairman of the Linen Flax Management Committee.
• William Jones, Mayor and Chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Council, Whangarei.
• Edith Miriam Jordan, of Masterton. For patriotic and social welfare services during the war.
• Betty Marion Kensington, Records Clerk, HM New Zealand Dockyard, Auckland.
• Mary Josephine Killery, of Petone. For patriotic services.
• Frederick Arthur Kitchingham, Chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Greymouth.
• Ella Fernie Logie, of Lower Hutt. For social welfare services during the war.
• Geraldine Emily Luckie, of Wellington, a member of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild.
• Marie Agnes Malempre, Secretary, Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Laurel Grace Barker McAlister, of Timaru, a member of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Elizabeth Hazel McCaldon, of Kaiapoi. For public services during the war.
• Ivy McCready, of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• James Duncan McGuire, an instructor at St. Dunstans, City of Auckland.
• Captain Francis Arthur McIndoe, of Wellington. For social welfare work on behalf of members of the Merchant Navy.
• Christina McKane, of Greymouth. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Margaret Elizabeth Meek, of Napier. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Amy Gladys Miller, Dominion Superintendent of Voluntary Aids, Order of St. John, New Zealand.
• Frank Mitchell, Honorary Secretary, Nelson Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Ellen Constance Morice, Honorary Secretary, Air Force Relations, City of Wellington.
• Walter George Neild. For services in connection with patriotic movements.
• Maisie Amelia Nobel. For public services.
• William Henry Paul. For patriotic and social welfare services on behalf of members of the Forces in the Hamilton District.
• Teresa Margaret Peckston. For services in connection with the organisation of the Obstetrical Section, St. John Voluntary Aids Division.
• Mary Victoria Cracroft Polson. For services in connection with recruiting of the Women's Land Army.
• Reuben Charles Porter, of Auckland. For services to war industries.
• Daisy Vida Chalmers Pottinger, of Dunedin. For services in connection with women's patriotic and social welfare activities during the war.
• Julie Robertson, of Gisborne. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Helen Victoria Ross, For services as organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
• Record Reign Ross, of Hamilton. For public services during the war.
• William Douglas Sanders, of Blenheim. For services to the Linen Flax Industry.
• Ethel May Scott, of Wan-ganui. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Rose Elizabeth Seddon. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Mary Phydlis Franklyn Shallcrass, of Greymouth. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Eileen Mary Smith, of Blenheim. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Tom Smith. For services in organising entertainments for members of the Armed Forces.
• George Sparry. For services in connection with ship repairs, Auckland.
• Percy Vernon Esmond Stainton, JP. For patriotic and social welfare services in the New Plymouth District.
• Edward Albert Stevenson. For services in relation to the war effort.
• Frank Emanuel Sutherland. For services in connection with the National Savings Campaign.
• Tuoro Tango. For services in connection with Māori patriotic activities at Rotorua.
• Percy Thomson, Chairman, Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Stratford.
• Olive Thorburn, Honorary Secretary, Waipukurau Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Hinehon Tureia, of Gisborne. For patriotic and social, welfare services.
• Hilda Tweedy, of Timaru. For services in connection with the reception and welfare of sick and wounded prisoners of war.
• Flora Amy August Urquhart. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the Forces at Papakura Military Camp.
• Fay Vernon, of Christchurch. For services to the Red Cross.
• Mary Karaka Waitioi, of Rotorua. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Edward George Walkinshaw. For public services during the war.
• Charlotte Eliot Warburton, Chairwoman, Paknerston North Branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Anne Whitaker, of Auckland. For patriotic services during the war, especially in connection with women's movements and the National Savings Campaign.
• Charles Richardson White, Town Clerk, Wanganui.
• Clementina Margaret Wilkinson, of Tauranga. For services to the Red Cross and other patriotic organisations.
• Mabel Helen Wilson Wilkinson. For services in connection with women's patriotic organisations in the Eltham District.
• Ada Kathleen Wilson. For services in connection with the Te Kuiti Branch of the Women's' War Service Auxiliary.
• Jessie Banks Wilson, of Oamaru. For services in connection with women's war activities.

• 
  Mary Dreaver

Associate (ARRC)

• Charge Sister Jane Kiritapu Nepia, New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
• Eva Jane Beales (Matron), British Red Cross Society.