The 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 12 June 1965.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)
- The Right Honourable Walter Nash CH. For political and public services.
Commander (CBE)
- Civil division
- Military division
Officer (OBE)
- Civil division
- Military division
Member (MBE)
- Civil division
- Military division
- Ronald George Trounce Lewis MB ChB JP – deputy Director-General of Health.
- Robert Taylor Wright JP – lately director of the Commodity Division, Department of Industries and Commerce, Wellington.
- Civil division, for gallantry
- Robina Olive Lovell – matron, Tauranga Hospital Board's old people's home, Te Puke. For services when a fire broke out in an old people's home.
- Terence Ross Mortensen – constable, New Zealand Police, Wellington. For rescuing three boys overcome by poisonous gas in a tunnel.
- David Bryan John Painter – constable, New Zealand Police, Wellington. For rescuing three boys overcome by poisonous gas in a tunnel.
- Military division
- Chief Petty Officer Edward James Button – Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Chief Petty Officer Thomas Edwin Easterbrook – Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Engine Room Artificer First Class Sydney Arthur Phipps – Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Master-at-Arms (Recruiter) Paul Manchester Tasker – Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Staff-Sergeant Selwyn Lawrence Keane – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Irving Simpson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Corporal Albert Ernest Hardy – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Squadron Leader Daniel John Cotton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Squadron Leader Brian Stanley-Hunt – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Alphonsus Gerard Quin – assistant commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.
- Claude Alexander Guy McRae – superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.