Companion (CB)

Military division

• Rear Admiral Edward Courtney Thorne CBE – Chief of Naval Staff.

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• The Honourable Arnold Henry Nordmeyer CMG JP – of Wellington. For public services.

• 
  Sir Arnold Nordmeyer

Companion (CMG)

• Ronald Keith Davison QC – of Auckland. For public services.
• The Honourable William Arthur Fox – of Ōtaki. For public services.
• Jock Malcolm McEwen – of Heretaunga; lately Secretary of Maori Affairs.
• Andrew Gordon Robb – of Wellington. For public services.

• 
  Bill Fox

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• George Ernest Francis Wood OBE ISO – of Whangārei. For public services, especially as chairman of the Consumer Council since 1959.

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• George James Brocklehurst OBE – of Auckland. For services as New Zealand High Commissioner to the Cook Islands, 1972–1975.
• The Right Reverend John Tristram Holland – currently in England. For services as Bishop of Waikato, 1951–1969, and Bishop of Polynesia, 1969–1975.
• Michael Rotohiko Jones OBE MM JP – of Ōtorohanga. For services to the Māori people.
• Pérrine Moncrieff JP – of Wakapuaka. For services to conservation as a naturalist and to the Abel Tasman National Park.
• Michael James Moriarty – of Wellington. For public services.
• Michael Bernard Scully – currently Chief Justice of Western Samoa; formerly of Wellington. For services as a stipendiary magistrate.

Military division

• Air Commodore Cyril Laurence Siegert MVO DFC AFC ADC – Royal New Zealand Air Force; Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Policy).

• 
  Pérrine Moncrieff
• 
  Larry Siegert

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Lewis George Anderson – of Lower Hutt; lately assistant director-general (social work), Department of Social Welfare.
• Dorothy Beatrice Campbell – of Taupō. For services as founder of the New Zealand Pony Clubs Association Incorporated.
• Harold Edward Coxhead – of Timaru. For services to the tourist and travel industry, especially as chairman of the Tourist Hotel Corporation.
• Walter Atcherley Dew – of Dannevirke. For services to local government and the woollen industry.
• Brenda Gardner – of Whangārei. For services to the community and nursing.
• Emma Potiki Grooby JP – of Dunedin. For services to the community and Māori people.
• William James Henderson – of Wellington; chief fire service officer, New Zealand Fire Service Commission.
• Iris May, Lady Kitts – of Wellington. For services to the community as mayoress of the City of Wellington, 1956–1974.
• Clutha Nantes Mackenzie JP – of Scargill, Christchurch. For services to local government.
• Juan Matteucci – of Auckland. For services to music.
• Frederick Walter Gascoyne Miller – of Invercargill. For services to the community and literature.
• Eric Alderson Missen – of Plimmerton; Secretary for Justice, 1970–1974.
• John Massy Stacpoole – of Auckland. For services to the preservation of historic buildings.
• Rewi Tamihana – of Petone. For services to the Māori people.
• Areginald James Waghorn JP – of Wellington. For services to education and art.
• Cyril Charles William White – of Auckland. For services to the blind, especially the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind.

Military division

• Colonel Charles Desmond Hall ED – Colonels' List (Territorial Force), Headquarters Field Force Command, New Zealand Army.
• Group Captain Arthur Frederick Tucker DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Iris Kitts

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• Arthur Walter Baker – detective chief inspector, New Zealand Police.
• Douglas William Robert Blackler – of Invercargill. For services to the community.
• Thelma Heath Clough – of Auckland. For services to commercial education.
• Gerald Huntly Corrick JP – of Feilding. For services to local government and community.
• Dorothy Ida Davies (Mrs Lochore) JP – of Whangaparāoa. For services to music.
• Gar Leong Ding JP – of Momona. For services to commercial horticulture and community.
• Jessie Edna Donald JP – of Lower Hutt. For services to the community.
• The Reverend Wilfred Ernest Falkingham – of Christchurch. For services to social welfare.
• Arthur Stanley Fong – of Greymouth. For services to sport and community.
• George Joseph Kennedy Keown – of Wellington; Assistant Secretary of Mines, 1961–1975.
• Margaret Alexandrina Mackenzie – of Dunedin. For services to sport, especially netball.
• John Alexander McInnes – of Christchurch. For services to sport, especially wrestling.
• Wairemana Miriama Hohipera Pitama-Riwai – of Christchurch. For services to Māori culture.
• Constance Miriam Purdue – of Auckland. For community and public services.
• Richard James Rolfe – of Thames. For services as president of the New Zealand Trotting Conference, 1969–1974.
• Charles Edward Saunders JP – of Blenheim. For services to rowing and the community.
• Professor Keith Westhead Thomson – of Palmerston North; professor of geography, Massey University. For services to the arts, education and community.
• Cissie Winstanley – of Napier. For services to bowling.

Military division

• Warrant Officer Physical Training Instructor Peter Joseph Allan – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Temporary Major and Quartermaster Walter Fraser – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• Major Neville Sutcliffe Kidd – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer Second Class Richard Lindsay Pepper – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Warrant Officer Second Class Ian Mac Stevenson ED – Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps (Territorial Force).
• Temporary Squadron Leader Terence John Kelly – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Edward George Wright – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 
  Jessie Donald

For community service

• Alison Gray Cathie – of Wellington. For services to nursing and the community.
• John Nesham Gordon – of Wellington. For welfare services.
• Hensleigh Carthew Marryat Norris – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Leonard Gordon Keith Steven JP – of Christchurch. For services to the community, especially the Crippled Children's Society.

For public services

• The Honourable Raymond Boord – of Rotorua. For services to local government and community.
• Maida Jessie Clark JP – of Wellington. For services to education and the community.
• Mervyn Henry Janes – of Wellington. For services as a private secretary to ministers of the Crown.
• Makere Rangiatea Ralph Love JP – of Petone. For services to local-body affairs and the Māori people.
• David Gilmour McLachlan JP – of Wellington. For services to medicine, in particular psychiatry.
• James Lister Newman – of Auckland. For services to the care of geriatrics.
• Alfred Raymond Perry – of Wellington; lately deputy Secretary of Labour.

• 
  Ray Boord
• 
  Ralph Love

For community service

• Robert Wilfred Allum JP – of Wellington. For services to the community.
• Frederick Walter Whitney Dawson – of Whangārei. For services to the community.
• Beatrice Mary Freeling – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Phyllis Maude Hewstone – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
• Arthur Oliver Kempton – of Invercargill. For service to technical education.
• Ivy Clarissa Laidlaw – of Dunedin. For services to the community, in particular the Otago Old People's Welfare Council.
• Gwendoline Myrtle Audrey Le Verne – of Auckland. For welfare services.
• Marie Elizabeth Markwick – of Whangārei. For voluntary services to the community.
• Reitu Mary Robson – of Henderson. For welfare services.
• Thomas Romain – of Wellington. For welfare work.
• Andrew George Ross JP – of Hastings. For services to the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Society.
• Norman George Stewart – of Dunedin. For services to disabled people.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Craig Wallace JP RNZAC (Rtd.) – of Cambridge. For services to the community and returned servicemen.
• Herbert Walter Watson – of Renwick. For services to the community.
• Ellis John Wood ED – of Ashburton. For services to the Boy Scout Association of New Zealand.

For public services

• Joyce Una Baker – of Ashhurst. For services to nursing.
• Adelaide Booth JP – of Lower Hutt. For services to education.
• William George Caldwell – of Balclutha. For services to local-body affairs and community.
• John Francis Colvin JP – of Te Atatū South. For service to local government and community.
• Keith Hall Eddy JP – of Wainuiomata. For services to local-body affairs and community.
• Arthur Huia Honeyfield – of Katikati. For public services.
• Geoffrey Noel Jeffery JP – of Roxburgh. For services to local government.
• Norman Philip Hastings Jones – of Invercargill. For services to civil defence and the community.
• Mary Rose Kinney – of Alexandra; postmistress at Chatto Creek, 1933–1975.
• Frederick Charles McGehan JP – of Auckland. For services to local government and the community.
• Albert Edward Surtees Roberts – of Te Kaha. For services to local-body affairs and community.
• John Robert Scurr – of Wānaka. For services to local government.
• Claude Henry Shackell – of Timaru. For services to civil defence and the community.
• James Melville Stanley JP – of Taupō. For services to local-body affairs.
• William Douglas Sullivan – of Lower Hutt; lately assistant director (management accounts), New Zealand Railways
• Violet May Tew – of Timaru. For services to nursing.
• Jean Evelyn Woodham JP – of Christchurch. For services to local-body affairs and community.