1963 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• Gilbert Edward Archey – director of the Auckland Institute and Museum.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG)

• Arthur Egbert Davenport – lately general manager of the New Zealand Electricity Department.
• William Percy Gowland – of Nelson; professor emeritus of anatomy, University of Otago.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• John Andrew – of Hyde. For public services.

  Commander (CBE)

• Herbert Myer Caselberg – of Wellington. For services to land settlement and agriculture.
• James Deans – of Canterbury. For services to local government, agriculture and forestry.
• Alexander McGregor Grant – of Auckland. For services to medicine and racing.
• Jack Newman – of Nelson. For services to tourism in New Zealand.

• Air Commodore William Hector Stratton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Leonard Frederick de Berry – of Christchurch. For services to music and education.
• Alec Sugden Farrar. For services to the community, especially as president of the Christchurch Returned Services' Association.
• Harold Robert Holt – president of the Hawke's Bay and East Coast Art Society.
• Colin Robert Horsley – concert pianist. For services to music.
• Leonard James Tobin Ireland – of Dunedin. For services to local-body administration.
• Hamana Mahuika – of Tikitiki. For services to the Māori people.
• Leyon Miall Moss – chairman of the New Plymouth High School board.
• Leslie Walter Stewart – formerly rector of St Andrew's College, Christchurch.
• John Tait – of Invercargill. For services to local government and the Returned Services' Association.
• Ellenor Catherine Watson – Dominion president of the Women's Division of the Federated Farmers.

• Surgeon Commander Alexander Colin Horne – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Wallace Bateman – 1st Divisional Signals Regiment.
• Group Captain Arthur Percy Gainsford – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Prudens Lillian Burrowes Blunden – of Waikari. For social-welfare services.
• Edward James Bradshaw – a former mayor of Riccarton.
• Nora Kathleen Braithwaite – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Gordon Leonard Brown – of Auckland. For services with the St John Ambulance movement.
• William Alexander Gault – of Ōpōtiki. For services to local government.
• Wilfred Douglas Gorman – of Wellington. For services to the community, especially in connection with the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps.
• Jessie Jackson – a librarian at Her Majesty's New Zealand Dockyard in Auckland.
• Mavis Gwendolen Kealy – of Auckland. For services to local government and social welfare.
• Alfred Sydney Kinsman – of Timaru. For services to local government.
• Robert McCallum – major, Salvation Army, Rotoroa Island, Auckland.
• Archibald Aloysius McDonald – of Ashburton. For services to local government.
• Mary Ellen Reid – of Greymouth. For social-welfare services, especially in connection with women and children.
• Wilfrid Aaron Rushton – mayor of Morrinsville.
• Gladys Anne Sandford – matron of the Lower Hutt Maternity Annexe.
• Willis Alan Scaife – of Wanaka. For services to farming.
• Harold Reginald Street – of Taumarunui. For services to local government.
• Herbert Lea Towers – of Auckland. For services to athletics, especially in connection with the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association.
• Ronald Philip Wakelin – mayor of Carterton.
• Gwendoline Edna Borrie Wilson – matron of Ashburn Hall, Dunedin.

• Lieutenant Commander Peter Maxwell Sanders – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Major Frederick Arthur Gunn – New Zealand Regiment.
• Warrant Officer Class II Ronald Ivan Keat – New Zealand Regiment.
• Honorary Captain Frederick Barry Smyth – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.
• Major Richard Stanley-Harris – New Zealand Regiment.
• Squadron Officer Joyce Eileen Peat – Women's Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Herbert Edwards – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Charles Edward Peek – superintendent, Child Welfare Division, Department of Education.
• Charles William Oakey Turner – lately engineer-in-chief, Public Works Department.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Raymond Piper – ambulance driver, Auckland. For courage at the time of a shooting tragedy in the Auckland district.
• Joseph Walker – constable, New Zealand Police, Auckland. For courage at the time of a shooting tragedy in the Auckland district.

• Edward Fitzgerald Barry – constable, New Zealand Police, Auckland.

• Shipwright Artificer 1st Class Oliver Maxwell Cox – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Radio Electrical Artificer Cyril Neil Jeffries – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Gordon Thomas Lawrence – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Radio Electrician Kenneth Robinson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff-Sergeant Clifford Melrose Kennedy – New Zealand Regiment.
• Staff-Sergeant Gavin Stanley Milne – Royal New Zealand Engineers.
• Warrant Officer Class II John O'Brien – Royal New Zealand Signals.
• Sergeant Geoffrey Millard Castle – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Edward Sims – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Donald Benjamin Pollard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur David Malcolm Winkelmann – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Charles Edward Tanner – chief inspector, New Zealand Police.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Barry Flavall – Royal New Zealand Air Force.