1978 Special Honours (New Zealand)
# 1978 Special Honours (New Zealand)

The 1978 Special Honours in New Zealand were two Special Honours Lists: in the first, dated 11 February 1978, two judges received knighthoods; 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.

## Order of the British Empire

### Knight Grand Cross (GBE)

**Civil division**

* The Honourable Ronald Keith Davison CMG – of Auckland; Chief Justice of New Zealand.
* The Right Honourable Sir Herbert Richard Churton Wild KCMG ED – of Wellington; lately Chief Justice of New Zealand.

## Polar Medal

* Major James Richard Milton Barker MBE RNZIR (Rtd) – 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.
* Peter Barrett
