1936 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

The 1936 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1935 and the beginning of 1936, and were announced on 1 January 1936.^[1][2]

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

• James Hutchison – of Dunedin. For public services.

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  Sir James Hutchison

• Willi Fels – of Dunedin. For services to ethnology.
• Cecil Albert Jeffery – of Wellington; clerk of the Executive Council and secretary to the Cabinet.

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  Willi Fels
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  Cecil Jeffery

Civil division

• George Shirtcliffe OBE – of Wellington. For public services.

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  Sir George Shirtcliffe

Civil division

• Charles John McKenzie – of Wellington; engineer-in-chief and under-secretary, Public Works Department.

Civil division

• Maude Elizabeth Parkes – of Auckland. For social and philanthropic services.
• Ann Gilchrist Strong – of Dunedin; dean of the Home Science Department, University of Otago.