To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
ASKEW, Ms Priscilla Jane (Scilla)
For services to music
Ms Scilla Askew is an arts administrator, musician and editor and from 1998 to 2010 was Executive Director of the Centre for New Zealand Music (SOUNZ), which promotes music by New Zealand composers nationally and internationally.
Ms Askew was the driving force behind SOUNZ Online, which transformed the SOUNZ website into a state-of-the-art resource for performers and composers. She also worked to develop a number of collaborations that continue today – the SOUNZ/NZSO composer readings, the SOUNZ Contemporary Award, the SOUNZwrite guides for schools, and Resound, a library of recorded music by New Zealand composers. In 2004 she was awarded the KBB/CANZ Citation for Services to New Zealand Music. From 2003 to 2005 she was Vice-president of the International Association of Music Information Centres and in 2007 hosted their international conference in Wellington. She has been a board member of several music organisations, including Stroma New Music Trust and the Lilburn Residence Trust. She has published books celebrating composers Jack Body and Douglas Lilburn, the latter to fundraise for the trust that manages Douglas Lilburn's home as a composer residence. She helped establish the Lilburn Residence Trust in 2004, was a trustee for 15 years and Chair from 2016 to 2019. In the 1990s Ms Askew helped establish Pocket Opera of Wellington.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BOLWELL, Ms Jan Patricia
For services to dance and theatre
Ms Jan Bolwell is a playwright, performer, choreographer, and dance educator who has been a leader in dance theatre in New Zealand for more than 30 years.
Ms Bolwell has been involved in numerous influential positions in the education sector including tertiary lecturer at multiple institutions, dance teacher for tertiary courses as well as community groups, board member of various dance advisory committees including the NZQA and the Arts Council. She was the national facilitator of Artists in Schools for the Ministry of Education from 2008 to 2009. Between 2007 and 2010 she wrote online dance education resources for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the New Zealand Correspondence School. She founded and directs the Crows Feet Dance Collective for mature women and has created more than 30 works for the Collective since its establishment in 1999. The Collective won the Best Dance Show award for the Wellington Fringe Festival in 2010 and has three companies in Wellington and the Kapiti Coast. She has participated in international dance conferences in Tokyo, Australia, Samoa, Canada and New Zealand, and has created numerous bicultural dance productions. Ms Bolwell runs her own theatre company Handstand Productions and five of her plays have toured New Zealand, her latest play 'Taking the High Ground' having premiered in December 2017.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BRADEY, Ms Lydia Pounamu
For services to mountaineering
Ms Lydia Bradey is an internationally acclaimed mountaineer who, over the past 35 years, has been a trailblazer for women climbers.
In 1988 Ms Bradey was the first woman to climb Mt Everest without supplementary oxygen and remains the only New Zealander to have achieved this feat. She has scaled Mt Everest six times, most recently in May 2019, and is the only woman to have successfully guided Mt Everest expeditions four times. She is a qualified New Zealand Mountain Guides Association guide and is sought after for guiding both nationally and internationally. She has completed more than 20 expeditions to over 6,000 metres. She summited Aoraki/Mt Cook and Mt Aspiring as a 17 year old, and made seven first female ascents of the 10 'Big Walls' in Yosemite Valley, California in the 1980s. She also holds the first ascents of mountains in Pakistan and Antarctica. She was appointed a Life Member of the New Zealand Alpine Club in 2011. Ms Bradey's achievements inspired the play 'Taking the High Ground' written by Jan Bolwell in 2017.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
CAMMICK, Mr Murray Ernest
For services to the music industry
Mr Murray Cammick was the co-founder of Rip It Up magazine in 1977, the only nationwide music magazine at the time of its launch.
Mr Cammick edited the magazine from 1980 to 1998, at a time when it played an important role in the revitalization of the New Zealand music industry. He self-published the magazine for 17 years. By 2019 the first 101 issues of Rip It Up were digitised and made freely available through the National Library of New Zealand's Papers Past project. He also founded fashion magazine 'Cha Cha', published from 1983 to 1987, and pop music magazine 'Shake' published from 1984 to 1990. He started two record labels, Southside in 1989 and Wildside in 1991. The Southside label promoted young Māori and Polynesian performers including Moana and the Moahunters and Upper Hutt Posse. The label Wildside represented Shihad, one of New Zealand's most successful rock bands. These three groups have since been inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. He studied photography at Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University and has photographed popular culture for the past 45 years, including taking photos for Rip It Up magazine. Mr Cammick's photos of Auckland street culture are represented in Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
CLARK, Mrs Elizabeth Jane (Jane)
For services to gymnastics
Mrs Jane Clark has provided 28 years of service to the sport of gymnastics at local and national levels.
Mrs Clark was the Vice President and Chair of the Building Committee for the Christchurch School of Gymnastics from 1995 to 1997. During this time, she led the committee to secure the allocation by Christchurch City Council of a site at QEII Park and the construction of a facility to deliver gymnastics programmes to the wider community. From 1998 to 2003 she was Chair of a three club merger committee which resulted in the establishment of Olympia Gymnastics Sports, now a highly performing club in artistic, rhythmic and trampoline codes. Since 2004 she has held the roles of Schools Programme Director and Event Director for the Christchurch School of Gymnastics. In 1993 she introduced and developed a school gymnastics programme at the Christchurch School of Gymnastics facility that services more than 10,000 pupils annually. In 2000 she chaired the Organising Committee responsible for the successful delivery of the Pacific Rim Championships to Christchurch. She has been responsible for the organisation of several National Championships, most recently as Chair of the Trampoline National Championships Organising Committee in 2017. Mrs Clark has been founder and Trustee of Gymsports in Canterbury Charitable Trust since 2012.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
CREZEE, Associate Professor Hendrika Martine (Ineke)
For services to interpreter and translator education
Associate Professor Ineke Crezee has made a significant contribution toward interpreter and translator education, helping to ensure New Zealand is known internationally for leading the way with the non-language specific training of public service interpreters.
Associate Professor Crezee has worked as a Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology for more than 20 years, teaching community interpreting, healthcare interpreting, legal interpreting and community translation courses. She has been Auckland President and National Secretary of the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters, co-convener of the First International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting at the University of Hong Kong, and an educator for public sector professionals in Auckland that work with interpreters. She conducted research into the benefits of bilingual patient navigation for low literate, limited English-proficient migrant families at Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington. She has also developed many guidelines and educational materials for interpreters and translators, including a bilingual patient navigator course for the Counties Manakau District Health Board and the book "Introduction to Healthcare for Interpreters and Translators," currently published in six different languages. She has recently developed an application that provides information on commonly prescribed medication for elderly people in the most common languages of New Zealand migrants. Associate Professor Crezee has received a number of awards for her teaching.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
CROTHERS, Mr Grant Thomas
For services to Tokelau and the fishing industry
Mr Grant Crothers was involved with the New Zealand fisheries management for more than 30 years and has made a significant contribution to the sustainable expansion of the Tokelauan fisheries sector.
Mr Crothers worked as the Deputy Chief Executive and Acting Chief Executive of the Ministry of Fisheries in New Zealand. Upon retirement, he began pro bono work in the Pacific Islands to ensure small island countries could reap sustainable outcomes from their fisheries resources. In 2009/2010 he started working with and advising the Parties to the Nauru Fishing Agreement (PNA) and Tokelau. He played a key role in helping to develop the Tokelau Fisheries Policy, a document that was formed through extensive consultation with the Tokelau community, which enabled Tokelau to join the PNA. He was involved in progressing the 2015 Tokelau Fisheries Reforms that led to the establishment of the Fisheries Management Agency in Tokelau. He guided the passage of regulatory amendments to the Tokelau Fisheries Regulations 2018/2019. Mr Crothers' input has helped grow the Tokelau fisheries sector from $1 million per year to $20 million annually. These additional funds have allowed Tokelau to improve its infrastructure, build hospitals, and boost education outcomes.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
DELAHUNT, Dr John Wayne
For services to endocrinology and the transgender community
Dr John Delahunt has worked as a consultant endocrinologist and as a lecturer at the Wellington Campus of the University of Otago for more than 40 years.
Dr Delahunt has been an active member of the New Zealand Society of Endocrinology (NZSE), serving as the treasurer and secretary on multiple occasions, and as the NZSE representative on the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Adult Medicine Advisory Panel in the 1980s and from 2008 to 2012. He was made a Life Member of the NZSE in 2012. He has played a vital role in the development of transgender healthcare in New Zealand, providing a significant majority of transgender hormone treatment care in Wellington for more than 25 years. People wishing to receive gender affirming hormonal therapy would often relocate to Wellington to benefit from his approach in this area. He was one of the first physicians in New Zealand to use gender affirming hormonal therapy, at a time when transphobia was common within society and the medical profession. Dr Delahunt has also been involved with Agender New Zealand, an organisation supporting transgender people and their families.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
FORSYTH, Ms Margaret Hine
For services to netball and the community
Ms Margaret Forsyth has contributed to netball as a national representative player, coach and selector since the 1970s.
Ms Forsyth won two Netball World Championships with the Silver Ferns in 1979 and 1987 and at 17 was the youngest New Zealander to compete at a Netball World Championship. She played 64 tests with the Silver Ferns. She also represented New Zealand internationally in athletics. She was Head Coach of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic netball team in 2017 and 2018. She was a key instigator of the Magic Leadership Team Development Programme for the off-season. She was Assistant Coach of the New Zealand Fast 5 team in 2017 and the New Zealand A team in 2016. Throughout the 2010s she has been a Silver Ferns National Selector and a National Emerging Talent Selector. She coached secondary school netball from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s. She is currently a member of the High Performance Sport New Zealand Coach Accelerator Programme Advisory Board, after graduating their programme as a coach. Outside of netball, she is currently serving a third term as a Hamilton City Councillor. Ms Forsyth has led a stakeholder group that created Hamilton's Biking Plan and was a major driver for the Destination Playgroup Working Group, establishing bespoke playgrounds for diverse communities in the city.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
GALE, Mr Graeme William
For services to aviation and conservation
Mr Graeme Gale and his wife Ros Gale established Helicopters Otago in 1993, which now owns/operates 17 helicopters and provides emergency air ambulance, commercial, agriculture, and pest control/eradication services.
Mr Gale initiated what become known as the Speight's Rescue Helicopter through a partnership with Speight's Brewery in 1997 and encouraged local businessmen to form the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust in 1998. Through his efforts and leadership, the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter now serves the greater Otago and Southland areas with four fully dedicated helicopters, with crews that can respond to an emergency 24/7. Over 21 years the service has delivered more than 10,000 patients to the Dunedin Hospital. In 2005 he was instrumental in obtaining a United States restricted import licence for advanced night-vision goggles and ran the first ever night vision goggle programme for all emergency rescue helicopter operations in New Zealand. In 2015 he set up the first certified BK117 for Instrument Flight Rules GPS Performance Based Navigation, which enabled the rescue helicopter to operate in conditions that it previously could not. He and his crews have completed hundreds of aerial pest destruction/eradication operations for the Department of Conservation and Otago Regional Council. Mr Gale invested in the development of purpose-built baiting equipment, which has since been used by many New Zealand and international pest eradication projects.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
GALE, Mrs Rosslyn Ann (Ros)
For services to aviation and conservation
Mrs Ros Gale and her husband Graeme Gale established Helicopters Otago in 1993, which now owns/operates 17 helicopters and provides emergency air ambulance, commercial, agriculture, and pest control/eradication services.
Mrs Gale has run the financial and administrative arm of Helicopters Otago and supported Mr Gale to undertake emergency helicopter air ambulance and pest eradication operations. Mr Gale initiated what became known as the Speights Rescue Helicopter through a partnership with Speight's Brewery in 1997 and encouraged local businessmen to form the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust in 1998. The Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter now serves the greater Otago and Southland areas with four fully dedicated helicopters, with crews that can respond to an emergency 24/7. Over 21 years the service has delivered more than 10,000 patients to the Dunedin Hospital. Mr Gale and Helicopters Otago crews have completed hundreds of aerial pest destruction/eradication operations for the Department of Conservation and Otago Regional Council. Mrs Gale has played the instrumental role of organising logistics for pest control operations, coordinating pilots, helicopters and equipment for when suitable weather windows allow the operations to go ahead, while also ensuring the company's other commitments are met for clients. Mrs Gale's business and logistical acumen have been critical for enabling Helicopters Otago's first-class capability development and the sustainability of the Rescue Helicopter Service.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
GOSDEN, Mr William Morris (Bill), MNZM
For services to the film industry
Mr Bill Gosden created and developed the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) from 1979 until his retirement in 2019, bringing the latest and most distinctive of New Zealand and international filmmaking to audiences throughout the country every winter.
Over the years Mr Gosden brought together film festivals that had previously competed to create the amalgamated NZIFF. In the year of his retirement NZIFF played in 14 centres from Auckland to Gore to a total audience of more than 264,000. He has been a champion for New Zealand filmmakers, making NZIFF the initial screening venue for many of our most significant filmmakers, and a vital platform for emergent voices and the representation of diverse local communities. He has also served as a Governor of the New Zealand Arts Foundation since 2011 and has been involved in selecting the Foundation's Icon Awards. Mr Gosden was previously appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2001 for his services to the film industry.
HONOURS
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, New Year 2001
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
HAY, Ms Karyn Lee Maxwell
For services to broadcasting and the music industry
Ms Karyn Hay has contributed to the New Zealand broadcasting and music industries for 40 years.
As the host of the classic music show 'Radio with Pictures', Ms Hay is acknowledged as one of the first New Zealand presenters to speak with a distinctly New Zealand accent on television. Since hosting this show between 1980 and 1985, her career has spanned many formats, including making music videos and documentaries, managing a radio station, hosting talkback at Radio Live, and presenting a weeknight Radio New Zealand National show. Her 1986 petition for the New Zealand Music Quota, which gathered more than 250,000 signatures, was a significant development for the New Zealand Music industry, helping create a voluntary quota for featuring New Zealand music artists on local radio stations. When she became General Manager of Kiwi FM from 2006 to 2007, she exclusively played New Zealand music. She was the inaugural Auckland chair for Women in Film and Television New Zealand from 1994 to 1995 and helped formulate many of the initiatives WIFT continues to support. Ms Hay is also a published novelist, winning the Montana Best First Book Award and a Frank Sargeson and Michael King Fellowship.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
HOPKINSON, Mr Michael (Mick)
For services to kayaking and outdoor education
Mr Mick Hopkinson has been a leading figure in white water kayaking and Outdoor Education in New Zealand since 1978.
Mr Hopkinson was a kayak slalom Racer and has made several 'world first river descents' before and after moving to New Zealand. In the 1980s, he helped create the professional standards for outdoor instructors through setting up the New Zealand Outdoor Instructors Association in 1987. In 1992 he established the New Zealand Kayak School (NZKS), which is recognized as the leading whitewater kayak school in New Zealand. NZKS offers regular free lessons to local kayakers and offers low cost courses to youth in the Tasman region. He founded and became the Director of Castle Hill Outdoor Centre in 1985, the Outdoor Education branch of St Andrew's College. He served as the Director of the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre near Turangi and he helped set up the kayak instruction and River Rescue courses for the New Zealand Canoeing Association. Mr Hopkinson is an advocate for river conservation and a member of Search and Rescue New Zealand and St John.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
INDYK, Dr Harvey Eshkol
For services to analytical chemistry and the dairy industry
Dr Harvey lndyk is a world-leading chemist in the development of modern methods for the analysis of vitamin micronutrients and proteins in dairy products.
During his career with the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd, NZMP, and the Fonterra Cooperative Group, Dr lndyk has developed, applied and validated a wide range of analytical tools that have supported the growth of infant formula manufacturing and vitamin supplemented milk products within the New Zealand dairy industry. He has created a number of international standard methods that are widely used to assess the safety and nutritional quality of dairy products, such as the application of flow injection analysis of nitrate and nitrite, the application of various high-performance liquid chromatography platforms to micronutrient analysis, the adoption of inductively coupled plasma for multi-element analysis, and the adoption and application of optical biosensor technology for the analysis of vitamins and milk proteins. His chemistry achievements are notable because they have been undertaken in a commercial laboratory, which under his leadership has been expanded to become a world-class facility. He has been an active member of the US-based analytical Food Standards organisation AOAC International since 1992, and has served on a number of the association's committees and review panels. Dr lndyk has also contributed to a number of European Standards organisations.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
KEDGLEY, Ms Susan Jane (Sue)
For services to women and governance
Ms Sue Kedgley has been a leading advocate for women in New Zealand and internationally.
Ms Kedgley established the Auckland University Women's Liberation in 1971 and helped found the National Organisation for Women in 1972. In the 1970s and 1980s, she wrote five books on women's issues and gender equality in New Zealand. She worked for the Women's Secretariat at the United Nations in New York for four years, promoting International Women's Year in 1975 and helping to organise the first two United Nations International Women's Conferences in 1975 and 1980. She helped establish the United Nation Women's Group to lobby for improving the working conditions of women at the United Nations. She was a Wellington City Councillor for eight years and a Member of Parliament for 12 years. She is a member of the Consumer New Zealand Board, having previously been Deputy Chair, and is Convenor of the Consumer Affairs Standing Committee of the National Council of Women. She was President of United Nations Women Aotearoa New Zealand from 2014 to 2016 and stepped down from the Board in 2019. She is a former councillor for the Greater Wellington Regional Council and helped to initiate the Council's Gender Equality and Diversity strategy. Ms Kedgley has helped organise the White Camellia Awards, recognising successful implementation of gender equality in organisations.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
KOKSHOORN, Mr Anthony Francis (Tony)
For services to local government and the community
Mr Tony Kokshoorn has served in local government for 21 years, including 15 years as Mayor of the Grey District Council.
Mr Kokshoorn served as a Grey District Councillor before becoming Mayor in 2004. As Mayor he has provided leadership at times of considerable difficulty on the West Coast, including following the Pike River Mine disaster on 19 November 2010, the closure of the Spring Creek Mine, and in the wake of a tornado that caused major destruction. He been commended on his role as the face of the West Coast community in national and international media coverage of the Pike River Mine disaster. He has worked alongside the families of the 29 trapped men and contributed to a plan to gain re-entry to the mine. He had previously been a driving force in lobbying for the Pike River Mine to be built to bring much needed jobs to the West Coast following the decline of the timber milling industry. He has held a number of chair and patron roles within the community and has worked on projects to strengthen infrastructure and improve local amenities to promote local tourism. Mr Kokshoorn has helped raise more than $30 million for West Coast charities, often at his own expense in travel time and resources.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
LANGMAN, Ms Laura Robyn
For services to netball
Ms Laura Langman has played netball at national and international level since her selection into the U21 New Zealand netball team at age 16.
Ms Langman captained the U21 team to win the World Youth Cup title in 2005. She made her elite netball debut with the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic in the National Bank Cup in 2003. In 2005 and 2006, she won two premierships with the Magic and placed second at the ANZ Championship in 2008. She captained the Magic for the 2010 ANZ Championship and captained the Magic to the trans-Tasman title in 2012, the only New Zealand team to win the title. In 2005 she debuted with the Silver Ferns against the English Roses. She captained the Silver Ferns to win the 2019 Netball World Cup, having played in the preceding 2007, 2011 and 2015 World Cups. She became New Zealand's first netballer to surpass 150 Test Caps in 2019. She won Commonwealth Gold Medals with the Silver Ferns in 2006 and 2010 and Silver at the 2014 Games. She helped introduce the NetFit programme to New Zealand in 2018, implementing netball clinic sessions around the country. Ms Langman personally led coaching sessions for many participants.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
MASON, Dr George William
For services to conservation, philanthropy and the community
Dr George Mason founded and has been a Trustee of the George Mason Charitable Trust since 1995, which has distributed more than $630,000 of scholarships, educational funding and grants to young New Zealanders.
In 2016 the Trust donated $5 million for a new Environmental Research Centre at the University of Auckland. Dr Mason pledged $50,000 per annum for a three year Massey University Wildbase study into parasite diseases in kiwi reared in captivity. He is an active member of 11 professional bodies across New Zealand, the United States, Asia and the Pacific. He has been a Charter member of the Rotary Club of New Plymouth West since 1966, holding various offices and contributing in financial and mentoring roles to various youth programmes, as well as broader international Rotary projects in the Pacific Islands, Africa and India. He has been involved with the Taranaki branch of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society since inception in the 1950s. He has personally contributed to Forest and Bird international projects and has actively promoted interest and research on New Zealand's native flora and fauna. He underwrote the development and creation of the New Zealand Garden at the University of California, Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. Dr Mason has been involved with the Taranaki Alpine Club since 1954.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
MCGILL, Mr Paul
For services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand
Mr Paul McGill retired in 2019 after 39 years of employment with the New Zealand Fire Service and Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ), most recently in the role of National Commander Urban.
Since 1980 Mr McGill held a range of positions including Firefighter, Senior Station Officer, Area Chief Fire Officer, Fire Region Manager, Director of Operations and Training, Deputy National Commander and Acting Chief Executive in the lead up to the establishment of FENZ. He has worked as the National Commander Urban since 2017, the highest-ranking firefighter position in New Zealand. He was the National Commander during the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquakes. He joined firefighter crews for several evenings following the earthquakes, in addition to his roles managing and coordinating the national response during the day. He was a driving force behind the establishment of the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue teams. He has been responsible for developing fleet and property asset management plans, significantly increasing the effectiveness of FENZ's operations, and made significant contributions to addressing requirements for station replacements in the Christchurch area following the earthquakes. Mr McGill has worked in collaboration with St John on joint training, sharing facilities, and in the introduction of first responder and co-responder schemes across New Zealand.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
MCINTOSH, Mrs Amanda Elizabeth Anngold
For services to early childhood education
Mrs Amanda McIntosh has been involved in early childhood education and voluntary community services for 40 years.
Mrs McIntosh has been Centre President of Tamatea Playcentre, President of Hawke's Bay Playcentre Association, and a member of the National Executive. She helped establish the New Zealand Family Day Care Association, was Ward Delegate and the National President of the Association, wrote its first constitution, and sat on its executive council for 20 years. She has been a founder member of the Napier Citizen's Advice Bureau and a Marriage Guidance Tutor. In Hawke's Bay, she worked with Birthright, Women's Refuge, Parent Line, and the Pacific Island Council to form Family Care Hawke's Bay to provide respite care. She worked for Barnardos, setting up several services and projects in Hawke's Bay and the Bay of Plenty. In 1992 she was appointed to the Barnardos Society. In 1996, she was elected as the South Pacific Delegate to the International Family Day Care Organisation, attending five overseas conferences and organising the 2003 conference in Wellington. Since 1999 Mrs McIntosh has established and run her own home-based education service, as well as a home-based early childhood participation project in Auckland for refugees and migrants.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
MILLIGAN, Ms Annette Margaret
For services to health, particularly nursing
Ms Annette Milligan is a teacher, registered nurse and business owner who has contributed to Nelson's health sector.
Ms Milligan founded Nelson's INP Medical Clinic in 1989, a women-focused, nurse-led sexual and reproductive health centre that offers a wide variety of advice and checks for women's health issues. INP also runs the local sexual assault and treatment service (SAATS) that was established in 2011, which she coordinates. Since 2016, she has chaired the Member and Accreditation Committee of MEDSAC, where has she been successful in enabling Nurse Practitioners to become registered sexual assault examiners. She is also a founding member and Chair of the Safeguarding Children Initiative, a charity founded in 2011 that educates the children's workforce and the community on child protection. To date, the charity has trained more than 12,000 New Zealanders in child protection. She is the founder and Director of Health Click, a company that provides health education resources for young people, especially those with intellectual disabilities, to learn about sexual health, hygiene and personal safety. She has also founded and led other community groups and businesses, including The Quit Group, and Ramazzini Ltd. Ms Milligan has sat on a variety of Ministry of Health Committees and local Trusts in the Nelson region.
HONOURS
New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
NAREV, Mr Robert (Bob), MNZM
For services to the community and education
Mr Bob Narev is the Chairman of the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation (formerly Shadows of Shoah Trust) and has chaired the Auckland Holocaust Memorial Trust since 2016.
As Chair of the Memorial Trust Mr Narev and his Committee have worked with Auckland Council to identify a site for the creation of a Garden of Humanity, collaborated on design concepts and liaised with lwi and heritage specialists, as well as driving fundraising for the project. He has been an Educator for Holocaust Education since 2002, regularly speaking to children at secondary schools and to adult groups. He has used his experience as a Holocaust survivor to teach thousands of New Zealand students about the dangers of racism, prejudice and bigotry and the importance of respecting people of all races and religions. He has been a Founding Trustee for the Senior Outreach Service since 2003 and a Trustee of the Gemach Fund since 2016. He was Chairman of the United Synagogues of New Zealand and chairs the Hugh Green Foundation, where he has overseen the provision of substantial donations to the City Mission, the Springboard Trust, Great Potentials Foundation, and to Auckland University and the Malaghan Institute for medical research. Mr Narev was a Trustee of the Christian Healthcare Trust Board for 17 years.
HONOURS
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, New Year 1999
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
NGARIMU, Ms Ranui
For services to Māori art and culture, particularly weaving
Ms Ranui Ngarimu is an expert weaver and a past Chairperson of Te Roopu Rarangi Whatu o Aotearoa—Māori Weavers New Zealand.
Ms Ngarimu is a member of the New Zealand Olympic Committee's Māori Advisory Committee, and is the designer and one of the weavers of Mahutonga, the Olympic Kākahu worn by the New Zealand flagbearer at the Olympic Games. She played a key role in the development and production of Toi Māori the Eternal Thread weaving exhibition that was debuted at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts 2004 in Porirua, before touring New Zealand and the United States. She co-authored 'The Eternal Thread, Te Aho Mutunga Kore: The Art of Māori Weaving', a major survey of the practice and values of Māori customary weaving. She was the Senior Advisor to Sir Mark Soloman when he was the Chair of Te Runanga o Ngāi Tahu, accompanying him to Scott Base in Antarctica where she presented carvings and weavings. She was a recipient of the Sir Kingi Ihaka Award recognising lifetime achievement at the Arts Council of New Zealand's Te Waka Toi Awards in 2018. Ms Ngarimu was formerly the Vice President of the Arthur's Pass Search and Rescue Society and as current Chair of the Waitaha Cultural Council oversaw the hosting of the 2015 Te Matatini Event in Christchurch.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
NORMAN, Mr Shaun Michael
For services to mountaineering, alpine safety and the community
Mr Shaun Norman contributed to the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association and the New Zealand Alpine Club for more than 40 years.
Mr Norman was appointed as the inaugural Secretary and Treasurer of the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association (NZMGA) in 1975. He has held five roles since then, including three years as President in the 1990s. He became an accredited International Federation of Mountain Guides Association (IFMGA) guide in 1981, making him the NZMGA's longest standing guide, as he continues to this day. He was instrumental in getting the NZMGA recognised at an international level, and organised and hosted the IFMGA annual meeting in New Zealand for the first and only time in 1998. He has made a significant contribution through teaching and instructing alpine safety, and has assisted with Search and Rescue at Aoraki/Mt Cook over the decades. He has held the record for the most ascents of Aoraki/Mt Cook at 39. He has been responsible for field leadership of United States and New Zealand research teams for a range of climate change and meteorite research projects in Antarctica. Mr Norman has been a voluntary driver for St John Ambulance for 15 years and has organised, built and run a number of significant community projects in Twizel, notably the Twizel Community Climbing Walls and town walking tracks.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
OVENDEN, Dr Keith William
For services to the arts
Dr Keith Ovenden had a successful career as an author and researcher, before chairing the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Trust.
Dr Ovenden served on the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Trust Committee initially as Chair of its Programme Committee from 2005, a Trustee from 2006, and Chair from 2012 to 2018. He led significant fundraising exercises for the Trust, including acquiring a permanent location on the Wellington waterfront. He oversaw fundraising for seismic strengthening of the Gallery in 2012/2013. He has overseen a gradual professionalization of the Gallery, which now presents three major and four to five minor exhibitions annually and the Adam Portraiture national competition every other year. Attendance at the gallery has increased from 15,000 in 2008 to 37,000 in 2018. He has been an independent scholar, researcher and writer since 1983, after working as a lecturer of political science in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written non-fiction books, including a highly regarded biography of New Zealand writer Dan Davin in 1996, and four novels. He wrote two important works of political economy, namely 'The Politics of Steel' and 'Apartheid and International Finance: A Program for Change'. Dr Ovenden has written many articles, reviews and commentaries on social, political and cultural issues in New Zealand, most significantly on the Rainbow Warrior sinking and apartheid in South Africa.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
PRICE, Miss Susan Diana
For services to literature and philanthropy
Miss Susan Price is an historian, researcher, children's author, archivist and book collector.
In 1991, Miss Price donated her own collection of some 25,000 children's books to the National Library of New Zealand, which is open through her home as a resource for other scholars, teachers and literature enthusiasts. She donated Chevening, a restored block of four flats built in 1929, to Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga in 2019. She has established the Susan Price Scholarship, awarded biannually to a postgraduate student at Victoria University of Wellington. She has also donated $20,000 to children's writer Kate De Goldi to help research children's literature. Over the past 35 years she has gifted thousands of books to more than 70 children around the country, to promote their interest in literature. She has a specific interest in books relating to war and anti-war themes, selecting books for the youth section of the Kippenberger Library at the Queen Elizabeth II Army Museum in Waiouru. She has personally compiled historical records of the Wellington suburbs of Brooklyn and Kelburn from original designs to interviews with early residents. Miss Price was a trustee of the Randell Cottage Writers' Trust, which offers the Randell Cottage Writers Residency scholarship to one French and one New Zealand writer per year.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
SAINSBURY, Mrs Lynden Ann (Lyndy)
For services to philanthropy and the community
Mrs Lyndy Sainsbury established The Museum Circle Foundation, which raised $1.3 million in the late 1990s and a further $2 million between 2004 and 2006 for the restoration of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Mrs Sainsbury was made a Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2005. She was a founding trustee of the Auckland City Sculpture Trust from 2001 to 2016. She helped establish the Sir Hugh Kāwharu Trust in 2011, to inspire and encourage emerging Māori leaders. The Trust has awarded more than a dozen scholarships to Māori PhD and Masters students. She has been a founding member of Urban Auckland for the past 19 years. From 2009 to 2014 she was Chair of Trustees of the Liggins Institute, a research centre with a focus on maternal and postnatal health at the University of Auckland. In 2011, she was appointed as the first woman trustee of the Edmiston Trust, which supports the development and acquisition of art in Auckland. She encouraged the philanthropic community in Auckland to collaborate with public institutions in research and art. Since the 1970s Mrs Sainsbury has also had voluntary involvement with the Arthritis Foundation of New Zealand, the Auckland City Athletics Club, the Auckland Museum Institute Council, and as a Board member of the University of Auckland Foundation since 2013.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
SCHUMACHER, Ms Mary Gemma
For services to palliative care
Ms Mary Schumacher has been the Chief Executive of Hospice New Zealand since 2006 and is well regarded nationally and internationally for her expertise and experience in the palliative care sector.
Under her leadership many high impact pieces of work have influenced the development of palliative care and end of life care for all New Zealanders, including the Hospice NZ Standards for Palliative Care and the Fundamentals of Palliative Care and the Foundations of Spiritual Care. She regularly represents hospice and palliative care at a national level on collaborate groups such as CANGO and Government Sector representative groups such as Palliative Care Advisory Group and Cancer Control Council. She has led negotiations with government to secure significant increases in funding for all services throughout New Zealand over the past 13 years to ensure hospice care remains free of charge. She was Chief Executive Officer at Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington for 10 years before moving to the national role. She has been a Board Member of the Sisters of Compassion – Home of Compassion since 2011 and has helped the organisation to extend their services to include the provision of affordable, warm, dry housing for the elderly in Horowhenua and Upper Hutt. Ms Schumacher also supports community groups such as The Aunties and Dementia Wellington.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
SILVESTER, Emeritus Professor Warwick Bruce
For services to science and conservation
Dr Warwick Silvester has provided leadership and advice to a large number of professional and community organisations with a conservation focus.
Dr Silvester taught as Professor of Biological Science at the University of Waikato for 32 years and is internationally-recognised for his research into understanding nitrogen leaching, a key environmental issue in New Zealand, and on his retirement he was appointed Emeritus Professor. He has been an expert witness, consultant and adviser to various local bodies, organisations, review panels and scientific and conservation panels. As a member of the Tongariro/Taupo Conservation Board from 2000 to 2009, he chaired the group responsible for producing the Tongariro National Park Management Plan. He was a key member of the Technical Advisory Group for the Rotorua Lakes and was active in fostering collaboration between scientists to guide the management of the lakes to achieve improved water quality. He co-founded the national Tane's Trees Trust to promote the planting of native trees and he has led the development and renewal of Pukemokemoke Reserve to expand public access to the lowland forests near Hamilton. Dr Silvester frequently shares his expertise with lectures to local authorities on topics ranging from waste management to the declining water quality in lakes and waterways.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
SINCLAIR, Ms Suzanne Mary
For services to the community and governance
Ms Suzanne Sinclair has been Chairperson of the WALSH Trust since 2002, which offers support and recovery services for people affected by mental health issues and disabilities.
Ms Sinclair has championed the WALSH Trust's award-winning maternal mental health initiative, He Kakono Ora, and has expanded the Trust's programmes under her leadership. She was previously the Member of Parliament for Titirangi between 1993 and 1996, before the electorate was abolished. She was an independent three-term Councillor for the Avondale Ward of the Auckland City Council before the super-city merger. She worked as Planning Commissioner for the Auckland City Council, North Shore City Council and Rodney District Council during the period 1996 to 2004. She was appointed Chair of the Road Safety Trust from 2001 to 2007. She has been a member of the Auckland Housing Allocations Committee of the Housing Corporation, the Auckland Institute of Technology Council, the Auckland War Museum Council, coordinator of the Friends of Auckland Zoo, and organiser of the 'Keep MOTAT Moving' campaign. She is currently retired after 13 years working with the Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Social Development. Ms Sinclair has been Chair of Toi Ora Arts Trust since 2016 and has played a key role in revitalising Toi Ora, having joined the Board during a difficult period.
HONOURS
New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
TEW, Mr Stephen John (Steve)
For services to rugby and sports administration
Mr Steve Tew was Chief Executive of New Zealand Rugby (NZR) from 2008 until stepping down in 2019.
Mr Tew initially began with NZR as a General Manager from 2001 and Deputy Chief Executive from 2003 to 2007. Under his leadership NZR significantly improved its revenues, hosted the 2011 Rugby World Cup, won the rights to host the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup, and as at 30 June 2019 New Zealand Rugby holds all four Rugby World Cups for both men's and women's Fifteens and Sevens teams. He has championed women's rugby, leading to robust domestic competition and paid professional contracts. He led NZR's diversity and inclusion programme, including the 2016/2017 Respect and Responsibility Review, and New Zealand Rugby was the first national sporting organisation to receive Rainbow Tick Certification. He was appointed to the Board of Rugby World Cup Inc in 2018 and the World Rugby Council in 2007. He began his sport management career as Secretary-General of the New Zealand Universities Sports Union from 1982 to 1987. He was then appointed General Manager of the Hillary Commission. Following six years as the Chief Executive of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union and the Crusaders, Mr Tew joined the New Zealand Rugby Union and helped establish a clear strategy for the professional and community base of the game.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
VAILAAU, Reverend Nove
For services to the Samoan community
Reverend Nove Vailaau has held the voluntary role of CEO of the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (EFKS) New Zealand Trust since 2017, which serves more than 70 congregations and 25,000 members.
EFKSNZ Trust was established by Reverend Vailaau in 2015 to directly liaise with central and local government to address the social and economic issues impacting the lives of New Zealand Samoans. He has been Church Minister of the Porirua EFKS for 22 years. Through creating alternative income streams, he has been able to reduce the Church's reliance on donations by 50 percent. He has helped to create the Atamu Porirua EFKS Incorporated and The Aoga Amata Porirua, two community-driven organisations that help the development of young Samoans. He has been a member of the Ministerial Advisory Council for the Minister for Pacific Peoples for six years, the Ministry of Education's Pasefika Talanoa Group, and the Ministry of Health's Pacific Advisory Group. He was Chair of the Porirua Pacific Church Ministers Group and is a member of the Wellington Samoan Faifeau (Church Ministers) Group. Reverend Vailaau has been involved with Taula I Fanua Trust, which works with vulnerable youth in Porirua, and with the Central Pacific Collective, which supports Pacific service providers.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
WALKER, Mr Shayne William
For services to fostering children and social work
Mr Shayne Walker recently retired as Chair of the Social Workers Registration Board and has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Gender Studies and Social Work at the University of Otago since 1996.
Mr Walker has been a registered social worker since 2011 and has contributed to the betterment of the lives of vulnerable New Zealanders. Together with his wife, they have been foster parents for 192 children over a 12-year period. He has been a strong advocate for care and caregivers and has supported the care service provided by the Dunedin Oranga Tamariki office. He frequently participates in caregiver events where he highlights the importance of caregivers in the community. He is an unofficial kaumātua for Oranga Tamariki and provides valuable services in this capacity. He has been a member of various expert advisory bodies to take action against family and sexual violence. Mr Walker is currently on the Family Violence Death Review Committee and Voyce Whakarongo Mai, and has served on the Child, Youth and Family Care and Protection Resources Panel.
HONOURS
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
WILDING, Mr Anthony Gordon (Tony)
For services to the dairy industry and the community
Mr Tony Wilding is an experienced Director who has had a wide range of leadership roles in the New Zealand Dairy Industry, and has made significant contributions to conservation and local community organisations.
Mr Wilding is a dairy farmer in Okoroire, and was a Director of New Zealand Dairy Group for 14 years and of the New Zealand Dairy Board for six years. He played a key role in the establishment of Fonterra, and was a Director of the Dairy Research Institute. He is Chair of the Federated Farmers Sharemilker Farm Owners Group, actively encouraging farmers to support their sharemilkers through difficult times, and providing mediation in sharemilking disputes. He chaired the Agricultural Industry Training Organisation for nine years, and has mentored young people in the dairy sector and promoted agricultural education. He was the first community/landowner co-chair of the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust at the time when the Trust's governance model changed to a co-governance structure with mana whenua, and he has built strong relationships between landowners and mana whenua. Mr Wilding is currently a Trustee and was Chair of Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand until August 2019, and has also been actively involved with the Pohlen Community Trust Hospital, the Okoroire School, and the Tirau Golf Club.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
WILSON, Mr Gary Ross
For services to Māori and Pacific journalism and broadcasting
Mr Gary Wilson has made a major contribution to strengthening Māori and Pacific journalism, print media and broadcasting for close to 40 years.
When Mr Wilson joined the New Zealand Journalists Training Board in 1980, he identified that less than two percent of New Zealand's journalists had Māori or Pacific heritage. In response to this, he pushed for the Board and the Department of Māori Affairs to fund introductory journalism courses for Māori and Pacific students. Then, in 1985, he initiated national, full-time journalism training courses for Māori students in Rotorua. He initiated the same courses for Pacific students the following year in Manukau. In 1990, he co-funded Mana Māori Media, which began broadcasting currents affairs programmes each weekday on Radio New Zealand and providing hourly news bulletins, in Māori and English, for the iwi stations. In 1993 he launched Mana magazine and led the publication for 10 years and 60 issues. In 2004 he co-founded the Mana Trust, a charitable organisation aiming to strengthen the Māori and Pacific voice in the New Zealand media. Since 2014, Mr Wilson has been a volunteer co-editor of the Mana Trust's 'E-Tangata' website.