1978 Special Honours (New Zealand)

Awards list for New Zealand June 2018 June 2018 The 1978 Special Honours in New Zealand were two Special Honours Lists: in the first, dated 11 February 1978, two judges received knighthoods;47471 24 February 1978 2451 yhttp://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1978/10.pdf Honours and awards 16 February 1978 New Zealand Gazette 322 10 and in the second, dated 20 April 1978, six people were awarded the Polar Medal, for good services as members of New Zealand expeditions to Antarctica in recent years.http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1978/33.pdf Honours and awards 20 April 1978 New Zealand Gazette 1155 33 Order of the British Empire Knight Grand Cross (GBE) Civil division The Honourable Ronald Keith Davison NZL CMG – of Auckland; Chief Justice of New Zealand. The Right Honourable Sir Herbert Richard Churton Wild NZL KCMG ED 85% – of Wellington; lately Chief Justice of New Zealand. Polar Medal Major James Richard Milton Barker NZL MBE 85% RNZIR (Rtd) 85% – of Christchurch; officer-in-charge, 1970–1972. Peter John Barrett — of Wellington; geologist, 1974–1975. Anthony Maurice Bromley — of Christchurch; meteorological observer and station leader, 1973–1974. Jack Edward Hoffman — of Lower Hutt; driller, 1975–1976. Malcolm Gordon Laird — of Christchurch; geologist and field leader, 1974–1975. Alexander Thomas Wilson — of Hamilton; geochemist, 1974–1975. References Special honours Category:1978 awards