1957 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• The Honourable William Sullivan – lately Minister of Labour, Mines and Housing.

  Companion (CMG)

• The Most Reverend Alfred Walter Averill – a former Archbishop of New Zealand. For services to the community as bishop and archbishop.
• Gordon Graham Gibbes Watson – of Lower Hutt. For services to the legal profession.

  Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

• Percy William Burbidge – professor of physics, Auckland University College, 1921–1957.
• Alfred Hyde Cockayne – of Wellington. For services to agriculture.
• William Gordon Victor Fernie – of Christchurch. For services to commerce and industry.

• Brigadier Leonard Whitmore Thornton – Colonels' List, New Zealand Regular Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Karauria Tiweka Anaru – of Rotorua. For services to the Māori people.
• Archibald Turner McLeod Blair – a medical practitioner at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Rotorua.
• John Richard Hertslet Fulton – chairman of the Otago Hospital Board, Dunedin.
• Thomas Vernon Griffiths – professor of music at the University of New Zealand, and Dean of the Faculty, Canterbury University College.
• Laurence David Hickford – of Ōkato. For services to agriculture and local government.
• Frederick George Hall-Jones – of Invercargill. For services in community affairs and as historian in Southland.
• John Mark – a medical practitioner and surgeon at Tauranga.
• Henry Cochrane McCoy – chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind.
• William Glendinning Rodger – of Wellington. For services to accountancy and the secretarial profession.
• Captain David Martin Todd – of the Mercantile Marine Service; harbourmaster at Wellington.
• Charles Robert Wilson – of Wellington. For services to ex-servicemen.
• Catherine Mary Josephine Wylie – matron of the mental hospital, Seacliff.

• Acting Commander Edward Perry Reade – Royal Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Bassett Morten – Royal New Zealand Infantry.
• Wing Commander John William Todd – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Valerie Patricia Louise Anquetil – chief officer for nursing cadets, St John Ambulance Brigade.
• Frederick Robert Ball – of Gisborne. For services to the community in local-body work.
• Reginald Malcolm Barker – honorary secretary of the Auckland branch of the Heritage Movement.
• William Richard Brinsley Sr – of Dunedin. For services to the community in the field of sport.
• Arthur Martineau Burrows – secretary of the Eltham Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• Bernard James Cooke – of Blenheim. For services to local government.
• Ethel Mildred Cordner – of Christchurch. For social welfare services.
• Christina Dufton Elliott – of Dunedin. For services rendered under the auspices of various women's organisations.
• Phyllis Jean Fletcher. For services in the education of intellectually handicapped children at the Christchurch Occupation Centre.
• Horace Victor Haywood – superintendent of the Mount Eden Prison, Auckland.
• Lucy Hughes – of Auckland. For social welfare services.
• William Leslie Hughes – lately mayor of Dargaville.
• John Charles Derbie Mackley – county clerk of the Masterton County Council.
• Alice Kathleen Maclean – of Wanganui. For public and social welfare services.
• John McCarthy – mayor of Waipukurau.
• Ada Evelyn Morrison – matron of the Glenelg Health Camp, Christchurch.
• Oma Taka Moss – of Christchurch. For social welfare services on behalf of Māori women.
• Norman Leslie Shaw – housemaster, France House, Eskdale. For services to the community.
• George Stratton – of Dunedin. For services to the community in local-body work.
• Rosemary Trafford – sister-in-charge of the maternity annex, Nelson Public Hospital.
• Lilian Ana Mary Wyatt – of Christchurch. For services rendered under the auspices of various patriotic and other organisations.

• Lieutenant-Commander John Fergus Young Schischka – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Major Douglas Gordon Warner Green – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Captain Elsie Phyllis Hogan – New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Major Albert Edward Melville Lawrence – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Warrant Officer Class II Oswald Albert Wahrlich – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Squadron Leader Colin Campbell Charles Manson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Allan John Charles Clark – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Wilfred Evelyn Hodges – chairman of the Government Railways Commission.
• Frederick George Oborn – lately commissioner of Inland Revenue.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• David Clarke Muir – constable, New Zealand Police Force, Kawakawa.
• Robert Methven Peggie – constable, New Zealand Police Force, Roxburgh.
• Archibald Herbert Victor Waters – instructor, Prisons Service, Wellington.

• Chief Petty Officer Wren Barbara Radford Bilton – Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
• Chief Electrician John Charles Harris – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Engine Room Artificer 1st Class Ernest Alexander Newman – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Walter Roy Robb – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Peter Percival Clarke Cooper – New Zealand Regiment.
• Corporal Henry Cecil Wright – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.
• Flight Sergeant John William Sharp – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Edward Joseph Brown – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Ronald Arthur Manners – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Charles MacFarlane – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant John Edward Wood – Royal New Zealand Air Force.