Scott Lough. For services towards the improved distribution of meat. Charles John Low, Chief Preventive Officer, Board of Customs and Excise. Frederick James Lowans, Experimental Manager, Precision. Engineering Division, Short Brothers & Harland Ltd, Belfast. David Haigh Lunn, Senior Technical Representative, Platt Brothers (Sales) Ltd. Ronald William John Lynch, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Social Security. Thora Lillie McCarthy. For services to the Girl Guides Association. William George McCune, Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. Walter Roderick McKay McGowan. For services to Boxing. Agnes McKee, Private Secretary to The Chairman, Ulster Transport Authority. Captain James McKinnon, lately Commander, Fishery Cruiser Norna. Margaret Florence McLaren, Administrative Assistant, Finance, British Broadcasting Corporation. Alexander McLean, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. William Frederick Trousdale McMordie, , Chairman, North Down Rural District Council. Winifred Florence Madders, lately Clerical Officer, Home Office. Christina Malcolm. For services to the community in Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire. Douglas Arnold Marshall, Manager, Newport (Isle of Wight) Area Office, Supplementary Benefits Commission, Ministry of Social Security. James David Martin, Area Engineer, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. William Colin Maycock, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise. Beatrix Eleanor Mead, Personal Secretary to the Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum. William Wharton Mensforth, Chief Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary. Charles Beech Mills, General Secretary, Sand and Gravel Association of Great Britain. Helen Moeller, Information Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Robert Muir, District Manager, South of Scotland Electricity Board. Basil Broomfield Murdy, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. Esther Mary Murphy, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Overseas Development. Margaret Neenan, Matron, Bromsgrove Cottage Hospital, Worcestershire. John George Nicholson, Purser, Esso Exeter, Esso Petroleum Company Ltd. Edward Joseph Nicol, Regional Officer, Midland Region, National Council of Social Service. Betty Helen Wilmet Nimmo, Secretary, Royal Naval and Royal Marine Children's Home, Waterlooville, Hampshire. Elsie Louise Noble, Matron, Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. John William Oakeley, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Social Security. Edmund James Orchard, Installation Manager, Towler Brothers (Patents) Ltd. For services to Export. Horace Vernon Overington, , Dean's Virger, St. Paul's Cathedral. Dorothy Maud Owen, Director, County School of Music, Guildford. Gareth William Owen. For services to Snooker. Harold Parnham, Manager, Technical Sales Department and Chief Assistant to Commercial Director, General Refractories Ltd. For services to Export. Edward Henry Parsons, lately City Marshal and Mayor's Secretary, Gloucester. Albert Jack Payne, Civil Assistant to Medical Director-General, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). Arthur Charles Pearce, Deputy Chief Male Nurse, Broadmoor Hospital, Ministry of