Australian landscape painter, Alan Baker, joined the pre-selection committee to view 431 entries.

Fourteen paintings from this exhibition, together with ten works by Kelliher Competition Judges, were sent to London to join twenty previous award winners already in the UK, to form a travelling display called "The New Zealand Landscape".

1st: Winter Feed, Central Otago by Robert Watson
2nd: Paua Picnic by Peter Williams
3rd: The Outlet, Lake Wanaka by Brian Halliday

Philip Lambe, a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, travelled from London to judge this competition.

Sir Henry announced that the 1968 competition would include a portrait prize.

1st: Morning Light, Tauherenikau Valley by Rodger Harrison
2nd: Grasmere, Canterbury by Colin Wheeler
3rd: West Coast Sawmill by Alan Crombie

Nearly 50 portraits were included in the 403 entries considered by Kenneth McFadyen who had served as a war artist with Australian troops in Vietnam.

Ida Carey and Gaston de Vel were equal winners of the inaugural portrait prize.

1st: Totara Flat Hut by Rodger Harrison
2nd: Glacial Remains by Austen Deans
3rd: Cattle Muster on Lake Hawea by Colin Wheeler

Australian portrait painter Joshua Smith selected 144 paintings for exhibition from a total of 101 portraits and 440 landscapes. A new figure studies category attracted 51 entries.

1970

1st: Skippers Canyon by Brian Halliday
2nd: Rangitata Terraces by Austen Deans
3rd: MacKenzie Country by Colin Wheeler

Max Ragless, an artist with considerable experience in judging art competitions in Australia, chaired a committee which chose 102 paintings for display.

Sir Henry announced that next year's competition would be held in Christchurch, in response to pressure from South Island artists.

1st: Skippers Canyon by Rodger Harrison
2nd: Bush Track, South Westland by Jonathon White
3rd: Towards the Maniototo by Kenneth Nelson

The small gallery of the Canterbury Society of Arts could only accommodate 75 of the paintings chosen by John Brackenberg of Australia.

This was the last competition conducted on the basis of graded prizes, separate categories and merit awards.

1972 & 1973

95 paintings were chosen by Sir William Dargie for display at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, from which he awarded five equal prizes to:

Sefton by Peter Brown
Trawlers at Anchor by Owen Lee
Boy in Empty Room by E Noordhof
Last Puha Before the Storm by Rex Turnbull
Maratoto Valley Farm by Violet Watson

A decade separates Owen Lee's painting of Freeman's Bay from Peggy Spicer's portrayal (1963). The functional lines of the craft tied up here have not changed but the city's new skyline is glimpsed in the more recent view of Auckland's waterfront. This area was recently redeveloped for the America's Cup and is now know as "The Viaduct Basin".

Frederick Bates, an Australian painter and art teacher, hung 79 paintings (from 362 entries) and awarded five equal prizes to:

In the Stillness by Graham Braddock
Sunday Relaxation, Albert Park by Owen Lee
From the Lighthouse Road by R McDowell
Youth by E Noordhof
Pensioner by Belinda Wilson

More than 10,000 people saw the exhibition at the Hastings City Cultural Centre during the fortnight it was open.

From a choice of 330 paintings, Sir William Dargie made five equal awards to:

Sea, Sand and Snow, Kaikoura by Brian Baxter
Solo Mother by Michael Blow
Reflections on the Past by Graham Braddock
Beached by John Clifford
Maratoto Hills by Violet Watson

This was the fourth time Sir William had officiated as a judge and he chose 77 of them for display at Massey University in Palmerston North.

Known familiarly to Aucklanders as "Motat", the city's Museum of Transport and Technology is a source of wonder to children and of nostalgia to their grandparents.