No. 2 81

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 11 JANUARY 1979
Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: FRIDAY, 12 JANUARY 1979

New Year Honours List 1979

His Excellency the Governor-General has announced that The Queen has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the celebration of the New Year 1979, to confer the following honours:

CIVIL LIST

To be Knights Commanders of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (K.B.E.):

Mr Justice Gaven John DONNE, of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Chief Justice of the High Court of the Cook Islands and Chief Justice of Niue.

Hepi Hoani TE HEU HEU, of Taumarunui. For services to the Maori people and community.

To be Knights Bachelor:

Joseph Holmes MILLER, O.B.E., of Wellington. For services to the Ross Dependency, conservation and surveying.

Robertson Huntly STEWART, C.B.E., of Christchurch. For services to manufacturing and the community.

To be Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (C.M.G.):

Donald William BAIN, M.B.E., of Christchurch. For services to education.

The Honourable John Raymond MILLS, of Auckland. For services as a Crown Solicitor 1951–77.

The Most Reverend John Hubert Macey RODGERS, S.M., of Papatoetoe. For services as Roman Catholic Bishop in Tonga and Cook Islands 1954–77.

To be Commanders of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.):

James Luke HAZLETT, of Winton, Southland. For public services.

Ernest Mervyn Hall KEMP, M.B.E., of Wellington. For services to local government.

Sidney Lewis MOSES, of Wellington. For services to commerce and the community.

James McLaren RITCHIE, of Dunedin. For services to business, educational, charitable and Anglican Church affairs.

Peter Jensen Reid SKELLERUP, of Christchurch. For services to the City of Christchurch.

Laurence Houghton STEVENS, of Auckland. For services to the textile industry.

To be Officers of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.):

Hardy Seymour BENTON, of Kaponga, Taranaki. For services to the dairy industry.

Alan Francis BRIESMAN, of Mosgiel. For services to the National Band of New Zealand.

Henry Harford BUSWELL, of Auckland. Chief Executive, Auckland Hospital Board.

Thomas Searle ELLINGHAM, of Havelock North. For services to the farming industry.

John Norman Stuart FLETT, of Auckland. For services to bowling.

Peter Townshend GIFFORD, of Hastings. For services to Birthright and the community.

Dr Thomas Edwin HALL, of Christchurch. Lately, Medical Superintendent, Sunnyside Hospital.

Dr Paul Peter HELLER, of Auckland. For services to air and space law.

Dr Dennis Douglas McCARTHY, of Auckland. For services to medicine and the community.

James Henry MCKENZIE, of Hamilton. For services to opera and the community.

Robert Alexander MILNE, of Christchurch. For services to hockey.

John Edward ROWLES, of Honolulu, Hawaii. For services to entertainment and New Zealand interests in the U.S.A.

Archibald James SCOTT, of Christchurch. For services to the community.

Leonard Alfred SISAM, of Whakatane. For services to farming, commerce and the community.

Alan David TALBOT, of Pleasant Point, South Canterbury. For services to local government.

Sidney Ivan WHEATLEY, of Hamilton. For services to trade union and community affairs.

William Sealy WOOD, of Auckland. For services to medicine and the community.