1975 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

• Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett {{post-nominals|country=NZL|DSO|size=85%}} – of Maketu. For public services, especially to the Māori people.
• Frank Wakefield Holmes {{post-nominals|country=NZL|JP|size=85%}} – of Wellington; professor of money and finance, Victoria University of Wellington. For public services.

File:Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett.jpg|Sir Charles Bennett

File:Frank Holmes, 1977.jpg|Sir Frank Holmes

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• Rear Admiral Edward Courtney Thorne {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=85%}} – Chief of Naval Staff.

• The Honourable Arnold Henry Nordmeyer {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CMG|size=85%}} {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Wellington. For public services.

File:Arnold Nordmeyer (1954).jpg|Sir Arnold Nordmeyer

• Ronald Keith Davison {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QC|size=85%}} – 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.

File:Bill Fox.tif|Bill Fox

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• George Ernest Francis Wood {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|ISO|size=85%}} – of Whangārei. For public services, especially as chairman of the Consumer Council since 1959.

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• George James Brocklehurst {{post-nominals|list=OBE|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=OBE|size=85%}} {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MM|size=85%}} {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Ōtorohanga. For services to the Māori people.
• Pérrine Moncrieff {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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.

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• Air Commodore Cyril Laurence Siegert {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MVO|DFC|AFC|ADC|size=85%}} – Royal New Zealand Air Force; Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Policy).

File:Perrine Moncrieff.jpg|Pérrine Moncrieff

File:Cyril Laurence Siegert.jpg|Larry Siegert

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• 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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.

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• Colonel Charles Desmond Hall {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ED|size=85%}} – Colonels' List (Territorial Force), Headquarters Field Force Command, New Zealand Army.
• Group Captain Arthur Frederick Tucker {{post-nominals|list=DFC|size=85%}} – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

File:Iris Kitts.jpg|Iris Kitts

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• 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Feilding. For services to local government and community.
• Dorothy Ida Davies (Mrs Lochore) {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Whangaparāoa. For services to music.
• Gar Leong Ding {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Momona. For services to commercial horticulture and community.
• Jessie Edna Donald {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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.

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• 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 {{post-nominals|list=ED|size=85%}} – 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.

File:Jessie Donald (crop).jpg|Jessie Donald

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• Russell Harris Broughton – of Masterton. For services to the community.
• Robert Laurie Butler – detective senior sergeant, New Zealand Police.
• William Peter Dawson {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Dunedin. For services to the community.
• Keith Owen Evans – senior sergeant, New Zealand Police.
• Athol Charles Garlick – of Rotorua. For services to sport.
• Rebecca Annie Graham – of Whangaparāoa. For services to the community.
• Frederick Lionel Graham Howard – of Taihape. For services to the community.
• Wilfrid Christian Kohn – of Gisborne. For services to music.
• Ernest James Arthur Ormrod – of New Plymouth. For services to brass bands.
• John Hamilton Shortt – of Palmerston North. For services to the blind.
• Mary Gabrielle Smith – of Auckland. For services to the handicapped.
• Celia May Wilkins – of Pukerua Bay. For services to sport, especially women's hockey.

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• General Dutyman Harry Robert Willis – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Allan John Brown – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Flight Sergeant William Leslie Grimes – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Eric James Taylor – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Christchurch. For services to the community, especially the Crippled Children's Society.

• The Honourable Raymond Boord – of Rotorua. For services to local government and community.
• Maida Jessie Clark {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Petone. For services to local-body affairs and the Māori people.
• David Gilmour McLachlan {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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.

File:Ray Boord.jpg|Ray Boord

File:Maida Clark (crop).jpg|Maida Clark

File:Ralph Love.jpg|Ralph Love

• Robert Wilfred Allum {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP RNZAC (Rtd.)|size=85%}} – of Cambridge. For services to the community and returned servicemen.
• Herbert Walter Watson – of Renwick. For services to the community.
• Ellis John Wood {{post-nominals|list=ED|size=85%}} – of Ashburton. For services to the Boy Scout Association of New Zealand.

• Joyce Una Baker – of Ashhurst. For services to nursing.
• Adelaide Booth {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Lower Hutt. For services to education.
• William George Caldwell – of Balclutha. For services to local-body affairs and community.
• John Francis Colvin {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Te Atatū South. For service to local government and community.
• Keith Hall Eddy {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Wainuiomata. For services to local-body affairs and community.
• Arthur Huia Honeyfield – of Katikati. For public services.
• Geoffrey Noel Jeffery {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – 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 {{post-nominals|list=JP|size=85%}} – of Christchurch. For services to local-body affairs and community.

• David William Blewett – chief fire officer Alexandra Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• Bruce McKenzie Wallis – chief fire officer, Gore Volunteer Fire Brigade.

• Henry John Forsey – lately constable, New Zealand Police.

• Squadron Leader Noel James Stewart Rodger – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Flight Lieutenant Barry James Mitchell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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