The1948 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by KingGeorge VI on the advice of the New Zealand government tovarious orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 1947 and the beginning of 1948. They were announced on 1 January 1948.^[1][2]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

• The HonourableDavid Stanley Smith – judge of theSupreme Court, and chancellor of theUniversity of New Zealand.

• The Right ReverendFrederick Augustus Bennett – ofKohupatiki;Bishop of Aotearoa. For services to theMāori people.
• DrGuy Hardy ScholefieldOBEDSc – ofWellington; parliamentary librarian and Dominion archivist.

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Civil division

• Joseph Bernard DawsonMD FRCS – professor of midwifery and gynaecology,University of Otago.

Civil division

• Robert Caughley – of Wellington; formerly general manager of the Alliance Assurance Company in New Zealand. For public services.
• Walter Allison GilmourMD – ofAuckland; pathologist,Auckland Public Hospital.
• John Henderson – of Wellington; formerly director,New Zealand Geological Survey.

Military division

• Group CaptainCyril Eyton KayOBEDFC –Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Civil division

• John Barr – of Auckland; chief librarian and director, Public Library, Art Gallery and Old Colonists' Museum, Auckland.
• John Alexander Crawford – ofCairo. For services to the New Zealand Forces in Egypt, 1939–1945.
• Kanapu Haerehuka – ofWanganui. For social welfare services.
• Aileen Annie Joyce – of Auckland; matron, St Helen's Hospital, Auckland.
• Thomas Rowley Lees – ofPalmerston North; a member of the National Rehabilitation Council and chairman of the Palmerston North Rehabilitation Committee.
• Mary Letitia Lindsay – of Timaru; matron, Timaru Public Hospital.
• James Murphy – ofChristchurch; Dominion vice-president of the Disabled Servicemen's League and president of itsCanterbury branch.
• Henry Valder – ofHamilton. For services in promoting industrial relations.
• Wilfred Stanley WallisMB ChB – ofRotorua. For services to returned ex-servicemen.
• John Wilson – ofDunedin; a member of theDunedin City Council for many years.

Military division

• Colonel (temporary)Charles Ritchie Burns –2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Patrick JoyceDCM –Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Squadron Leader Noel Alfred Vear – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Civil division

• Ada Emily Beer – ofGisborne. For patriotic services.
• John Bryce Berry – ofKaikohe. For social welfare services inNorthland.
• Pansy Helen Auld Chapman – of Auckland; charge nurse,Auckland Plunket Rooms.
• William Alfred Henry Corfield – of Auckland; constructive manager,His Majesty's New Zealand Dockyard, Auckland.
• Dorothy Louisa Derig – of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• John William Fenton – ofKaitangata; formerly mayor of Kaitangata.
• Elsie Louisa Muriel Julius – ofGreymouth; sister in charge, maternity annex, Greymouth.
• Kenneth McKenzie – ofGeraldine; formerly chairman, Geraldine County Council.
• The ReverendLeslie Bourneman Neale – of Dunedin; formerly president of theMethodist Church of New Zealand, superintendent of the Dunedin Central Mission.
• James Baxter O'Neill – secretary,New Zealand Swimming Association.
• Mirika Wehipeihana – ofŌpunake; district health nurse.
• William Trickey Woods – of Christchurch. For services to ex-servicemen.

Military division

• Acting Telegraphist Lieutenant William Lewis BrewerDSM –Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John William Barry – New Zealand Regiment.
• Major and Quartermaster Thomas Joseph Cronin – New Zealand Regular Force.
• Major Adam James Moore – New Zealand Regiment.
• Captain John Henry Leedham Trenwith – New Zealand Temporary Staff.
• Flying Officer Richard Langsford Brewer – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Albert Ernest Chapman – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Military division

• Electrical Artificer, Fourth Class, Alfred Ernest Crooks – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Ernest Robert Jackson – canteen tenant, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Private (temporary Warrant Officer Class I) Donald Hughes Cross – New Zealand Regiment.
• Private (temporary Warrant Officer Class I) David Charles McGill – New Zealand Temporary Staff.
• Private (temporary Staff-Sergeant) Victor James Keane – New Zealand Temporary Staff.
• Flight Sergeant James Robert John Begg – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Tom Lewis Dimmock – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant William Henry James – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Basil Frederick White – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Squadron Leader Cyril Henry BaigentDSODFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Douglas Owen Holloway – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Alexander McLeod Morgan Thomas – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Mervyn Windsor Wrennall – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

• Flying Officer John Duncan Garrett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Frederick Hazel – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Joseph Cassidy Naera – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant James Patrick O'Donnell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Woods – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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