The 1946 King's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthdayofKing George VI, were appointments made by the King 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 13 June 1946.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
Walter Edmund Leadley – general secretary, Returned Servicemen's Re-establishment League, New Zealand.
Donald McPhee – member of the Board of Trustees, New Zealand Institute for the Blind, and of the Executive of the New Zealand Blinded Soldiers Association.
Hector James Aekins – secretary, Auckland Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Club. For services in connection with patriotic and social welfare movements.
Alexander Francis Ritchie Crawford MB ChB – a prominent medical practitioner of Invercargill.
Alfred Hugh Crawley – chairman, Nelson City Patriotic Controlling Committee.
Edith Mary De Castro – of Te Kūiti. For services in connection with patriotic organisations.
Edward Gibbard – mayor of Dannevirke. For patriotic and social welfare work.
John Black Grant – of Dunedin. For services in connection with patriotic and social welfare movements.
Theresa Green JP – of Christchurch. For patriotic and social welfare work.
John Athol Gregor – of Christchurch. For services to patriotic organisations.
Fred Bennett Katene – of Wellington. For services in connection with the Māori war effort.
David Ferguson Mackay – a member of the Auckland branch of the Order of St John and Joint Council Executive.
Florence Isobel McBride – of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare work during the war.
Captain Harold Hilton Sergeant – harbourmaster at Auckland for 33 years.
Irene May Leonora Taylor – head of the Voluntary Aids, Order of St John, Wellington.
Military division
Lieutenant Frederick Kendall Gibson – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Temporary Lieutenant Fred Govsky – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Lieutenant-Commander Ronald Francis Hull – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Temporary Acting Electrical Lieutenant-Commander Edward John Marklew – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Captain George Edward Cox – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major (temporary) (Quartermaster) John William Fletcher – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major Christopher Henry Gallagher – New Zealand Military Forces.
Subaltern Daisy Isaacs – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
Major Alfred George Lowry – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Horace Maddocks – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain (temporary) (Quartermaster) James Malcolm – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain James Leslie Napier ED – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant John Hill Skinner – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Ernest Smith – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major John Vincent DCM MM – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major Gerald Harcort Weir ED – New Zealand Military Forces.
Squadron Leader Owen Evans – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader James William Aston – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader Jack Garrance Dunstan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader John Harold McFadden – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Sheard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader John William Todd – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Maui John Hanslip Bruorton – Royal New Zealand Air Force,
Flight Lieutenant Cecil George Burr – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant William Francis Falvey – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Deryck Milne – Royal Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Ivan Sidney Rockell – Royal .New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant George Kemp Taylor – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Bruce William Thomas Richards – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flying Officer Douglas Enoch Wood – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Warrant Officer Ernest Charles Calcinai – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
