1957 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable Joseph Stanton – second senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court.
• Leonard Morton Wright – mayor of the City of Dunedin.

  Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Rear-Admiral John Edwin Home McBeath – on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Herbert Edgar Evans – solicitor-general.
• Alister Donald McIntosh – permanent head of the Prime Minister's Department and secretary of External Affairs.

  Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

• John Andrew – of Hyde. For services to farming.
• The Honourable William Edward Barnard – of Tauranga. For political and public services.
• Herbert Victor Searle – principal of Nelson College, 1933–56.
• The Honourable Tupua Tamasese – a member of the Executive Council of Western Samoa.
• The Honourable Malietoa Tanumafili – a member of the Executive Council of Western Samoa.

• Air Commodore Ian Gordon Morrison – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Frederick Norman Ambler – a member of the Auckland City Council.
• Elizabeth Scally Brown – secretary of the Registered Nurses' Association.
• John Gilkison – chairman of the board of directors, Southland Frozen Meat Company.
• Thomas Douglas Baird Hay – of Auckland. For services to sport.
• The Reverend Canon Poihipi Mokena Kohere – of Tikitiki. For services to the Māori people.
• William Calder Mackay – a member of the Auckland City Council.
• Lachlan MacLean – of Hastings. For services to farming.
• The Reverend Thomas Arthur Pybus – of Dunedin. For services as a minister of the Methodist Church in Otago and Southland for over 40 years.
• Henry Hamilton Wauchop – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
• Donald Frederick Sandys Wunsch – chairman of the advisory council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

• Acting Captain Brian Edmund Turner – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Frederick Catchpole – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Squadron Leader Maurice Beehan Furlong – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Vida Mary Barron – senior lecturer at the University of Otago, and a former Dominion president of the New Zealand Federation of University Women.
• William Bell – of Invercargill. For services to the community in local-body activities, especially educational.
• Robert Bruce – mayor of Akaroa.
• Llewellyn John Collins – county clerk and treasurer of the Waimate County Council.
• Raymond James George Collins – of Christchurch; a prominent philatelist.
• Rangitiaria Dennan – a prominent guide in the Rotorua district. For services to the tourist movement.
• Annie Dundon. For services to the Marlborough Hospital Board.
• Hanson Home Fraser – chairman of the Timaru High School's board of governors, and secretary of the Timaru Fire Board.
• Sydney Freeman – Dominion organising secretary, Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs.
• Norah Gibbons – president of the Kindergarten Association.
• Catherine Goodsir – of Taumarunui. For social welfare services.
• William Charles Kennedy – of Te Aroha. For services to the community in local-body work.
• Leonard Albert McIntosh – secretary of the Kaitaia Dairy Company.
• Jack Meltzer – general secretary of the Police Association.
• William Herbert Sandford – of Raetihi. For services to the community in local-body work.
• William Thomas Strand – of Lower Hutt. For services to local government.

• Supply Lieutenant John Harper Craig – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II Lindsay Easter Pallister Atkin – Royal New Zealand Infantry.
• Warrant Officer Class II Noel McLennan – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
• Major Douglas Stewart Ross – Royal New Zealand Infantry.
• Major Richard James Holden Webb – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Francis Laloli – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Ernest Baird Papps – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Edward Buckley – constable, New Zealand Police Force, Waiuku.
• William George Wood – constable, New Zealand Police Force, Winton.

• Chief Engine Room Artificer Arthur Malcolm Roxborough Bennett – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Shipwright James Patrick Dobbyn – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Fredrick George Heath – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Acting Chief Petty Officer Donald Edward Tuck – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• 34807 Sergeant Ronald Alexander Watson – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
• 70427 Flight Sergeant Kenneth James Clark – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• 71251 Sergeant William Henry O'Byrne – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Wing Commander Douglas Fitzclarence St George – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader William Medworth Golden – Royal New Zealand Air Force.