Bell, of Kenmore, Queensland. For services to the wool industry. Bede Bertrand Callaghan, of Gordon, New South Wales. Managing Director, Commonwealth Banking Corporation. Kay Chauncy Masterman. Former Association Professor of Classics, Australian National University. For services to education and literature. Roger Levinge Dean. Administrator of the Northern Territory. Stan Devenish Meares, , of Lindfield, New South Wales. For services to medicine. James Rowland Odgers, Clerk of the Senate, Commonwealth Parliament. John Grant Phillips, Governor-Elect of the Reserve Bank of Australia. John Cecil Saint-Smith, of Townsville, Queensland. For services to mining, education and to the community. Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Military Division Royal Australian Navy Captain Jeffrey William Herbert Britten. Senior Chaplain the Venerable Archdeacon, John Owen Were, (Emergency List). Australian Military Forces Colonel Joseph David Honeysett (2182), Australian Staff Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel John Malcolm McNeill, , (358612), Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery. Colonel Kenneth Aston Peddle (2286), Australian Staff Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel William Joseph Slocombe (487), Australian Staff Corps. Royal Australian Air Force Acting Air Commodore Harvey Holcombe Smith. Wing Commander Reginald Ernest Cormie (03246). Wing Officer Lois Katrine Pitman (L34413), Women's Royal Australian Air Force. Civil Division Ian James Wynn Bisset, Assistant Secretary, Secondary Science Section, Department of Education and Science, Canberra. George Garrett Burniston, , of Cronulla, New South Wales. For services to physically handicapped persons. Amy Gwendoline Caldwell, of Point Piper, New South Wales. For services to aviation. Robert Rothsay Cole, , Commissioner, Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary. Reginald Joseph Coombe, , of Dulwich, South Australia. For services to migration. James Keith Donaldson, of Eastwood, New South Wales. For services to the dairy industry. Griffith Hammond Duncan, of Newcastle, New South Wales. For services to the community. Leonard William French, of Beaumaris, Victoria, Artist. For services to painting. William James Gibbs, of Blackburn, Victoria. Director, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology. James Harold Greenwood, Deputy Commissioner, Repatriation Department, New South Wales. Stefan Haag, of Edgecliff, New South Wales. For services to the development of the Arts in Australia. Geoffrey Antony Hawley, of East Lindfield, New South Wales, Commissioner, Export Payments Insurance Corporation. Harold Alan Jones, chairman, Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority. Frances Christina Burrell McKay, , of Auburn, New South Wales, Chief of the Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance. Pastor Douglas Ralph Nicholls, , of Fitzroy, Victoria. For services to Aborigines. Ruby Ethel Powell, Headmistress, Presbyterian Ladies College, Burwood. For services to education. Rupert Rushby