To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
ALLAN, Ms Fiona Kathryn
For services to Paralympic sport
Ms Fiona Allan has been Chief Executive of Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) since 2007, having first been appointed as Operations Manager in 2006.
Ms Allan has worked to steadily develop the Paralympic Movement in New Zealand and is a passionate advocate for Para sport, from a grassroots level, and through the pathway to the Paralympic Games. She has overseen significant growth in Paralympic sport in New Zealand and has attended six Paralympic Games during her tenure. New Zealand ranked number one in the world per medals per capita at the London 2012 Paralympic Games and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and number six in the world per medals per capita at the recent PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games. She led the staging of the 2011 International Paralympic Committee’s Athletics World Championships in Christchurch and was Secretary General of the Oceania Paralympic Committee for four years. She led the Parafed Revitalisation, implementation of the new Towards 2020 PNZ Strategic Plan and structure to deliver a world leading High Performance and Paralympic Games Plan. Through the PNZ Spirit of Gold Commercial and Marketing programme Ms Allan led PNZ into new partnerships with a focus on attaining investment to meet the fast-growing needs of Para sport in New Zealand.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BAKER, Ms Kathleen Marie (Marie)
For services to lifesaving and swimming
Ms Marie Baker has been involved with New Zealand Lifesaving with more than 55 years’ experience and has taught swimming throughout New Zealand for more than 25 years.
In 2006 Ms Baker was made President of the Royal Life Saving Society’s Whanganui Branch and in 2012 became President of Royal Life Saving Society New Zealand (RLSSNZ), a role she continues to hold. After the destruction of the RLSSNZ’s national headquarters in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake she undertook the challenge of rebuilding the Society, forming a new Board of experienced personnel in late 2011. She has led RLSSNZ’s partnerships with Swimming New Zealand, Surf Lifesaving New Zealand, and Water Safety New Zealand (WSNZ). As the Society’s delegate to WSNZ from 2012 she contributed to the development of WSNZ’s integrated sector plan to reduce drowning nationally. She was made an Honorary Vice President of the Commonwealth Life Saving Society in 2014. She has been a swim tutor for Swimming New Zealand since 1994. Ms Baker received her first award for lifesaving in 1959 and has since held roles as an instructor, field officer, education officer, secretary, chief examiner, and has travelled the country teaching the discipline to others over the course of her career.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BEASLEY, Professor Spencer Wynyard
For services to paediatrics
Professor Spencer Beasley is President of the New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons and former President of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons.
More than 20 years ago Professor Beasley initiated the establishment of a specialist paediatric surgical service for the South Island, which is now a four surgeon unit based in Christchurch providing outreach clinics and operating lists in regional centres, with an emphasis on equity and access to quality services. He has been instrumental in developing audit processes to monitor trends and inform practice and management issues within the unit. He has contributed to surgical education in his specialty and across the nine Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) specialties. He has held several leadership roles with RACS, through which he has had an influence on the training of almost all paediatric surgeons in New Zealand and Australia who have qualified within the past 20 years. He is a former Trustee of the Rainbow Children’s Trust, current Trustee of Children’s Cancer Research Trust, and a member of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons Board of Governors. Professor Beasley is a member of the Male Champions of Change group, made up of senior leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics committed to achieving gender equality in their organisations and fields.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BELL, Mr Philip Alexander Te-Aorangi
For services to music
Mr Philip Bell has been a pioneer and champion of hip hop music in New Zealand for nearly 30 years across a range of roles, including performing as DJ Sir-Vere.
Early in his career Mr Bell was Head of Urban Music and Artists and Repertoire for the record company BMG NZ. During this time he worked with artists including DLT, Che-Fu, and the Urban Pacifika Record label, who he signed to BMG. These signings were responsible for several gold and platinum record releases, propelling New Zealand urban music into the mainstream. He hosted the Trueschool Hip Hop Show on 95bFM, which paved the way for the urban radio format with the likes of Mai FM (of which he is currently Programme Director), George FM and Flava. He hosted the show ‘Wreckognize’ on MTV from 1996 to 1998. In 1997 he ran the first of several International Turntable Federation competitions in New Zealand. From 2001 to 2005 he was involved in the Aotearoa Hip Hop Summit, an annual event showcasing local and international artists. His ‘Major Flavours’ compilation album series with Universal Music has remained a crucial vehicle for showcasing local talent internationally. He instigated the charity single ‘Think Twice’ in 2008, was involved with the Spark Boroughs Project to build community basketball courts throughout Auckland in 2015, and contributed to Auckland Museum’s Volume exhibition in 2016.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BLANKS, Mr Geoffrey Scott (Scott)
For services to comedy
Mr Scott Blanks helped found The Classic in Auckland as New Zealand’s first dedicated comedy club in 1997 and is considered the ‘Godfather of New Zealand comedy’.
For more than 25 years Mr Blanks has produced live comedy shows and tours around New Zealand, primarily at The Classic in Auckland, which he is now the sole director of. The venue hosts more than 350 live shows a year with tens of thousands of attendees. He is particularly dedicated to the development of new comedians and launched the annual Raw Comedy Quest in 1996 to search for the funniest new faces of the year. He has attended The Classic’s weekly Raw open mic nearly every Monday, more than 800 shows, since it opened, featuring more than 1,500 budding comedians. The Raw Comedy Quest has grown nationally with comedians from around the country competing and expanding to different cities. Mr Blanks has helped mentor many of the successful rookies into careers as full time professional comedians.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BREARS, Mrs Christine Barney Arihia
For services to Māori and health
Mrs Christine Brears, along with two other staff, established a Māori Community Health Trust in 1989, which became the Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust in 1996, an award-winning organisation of which she has remained CEO.
From 1990 to 1996 Ms Brears’ Trust advocated for children’s health services, resulting in mobile ear clinics and vision and hearing technicians visiting kohanga reo. She negotiated for the glue ear contract ‘Whakarongo mai’ to be piloted in Taumarunui. The Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust now employs more than 100 staff and is the largest employer in Taumarunui. The organisation offers a range of integrated services across justice, education and social development, along with mental health and addiction services, budgeting, advocacy support, and tailored health services. She has negotiated with tertiary institutes to provide trade training programme opportunities for staff and community members. She is heavily involved in local iwi activities and instigated a challenge for local marae to encourage people to undergo health checks and support healthier lifestyles. She has provided representation on the National Hau Ora Coalition, represented Ngati Maniapoto on the Piki Te Ora Partnership Advisory Board to Waikato District Health Board, as a member of the Iwi Māori Council of Waikato District Health Board, and on various health taskforces. Mrs Brears was a founding member of Toiora Primary Health Organisation and was Chair until 2012.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
BRENNAN, Ms Timua Te Puhi Kai Ariki
For services to music and Māori performing arts
Ms Timua Brennan has had a life-long involvement with Māori performing arts and has delivered numerous soloist performances as an operatic singer nationally and internationally.
Ms Brennan has given solo performances at events of national significance such as Canterbury earthquake commemorations and Waitangi Day celebrations, as well as regular performances with such events as Opera in the Pa outdoor concerts and for the Rotorua Lakeside Concert Charitable Trust. She was an Adjudicator for the New Zealand Lockwood Aria signing competition between 2009 and 2016 across several categories, and has previously been an adjudicator for several regional kapa haka competitions. She is a five-time winner of the New Zealand Lockwood Aria in the Māori and Regional Sections and has performed a number of operas and with a range of choirs and orchestras around New Zealand. She conducted the Canti Māori Italian Tour in 2004 as a soloist performing a fusion of Māori and Italian songs. She launched her operatic album ‘Na Te Ao’ in 2017, which honours the people and communities of Canterbury affected by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. She has tutored local students as a specialist vocal coach. Ms Brennan operates a tourism business that provides Māori cultural entertainment on The Lakeland Queen cruise boat on Lake Rotorua.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
CLENDON, Mr Matutaera Te Nana
For services to Māori
Mr Matutaera Clendon has served Te Rawhiti Marae over the past six decades, fundraising and contributing to the restoration of this community facility.
Mr Clendon has been a member of Te Rawhiti Māori Committee and is a kaumatua of Te Rawhiti Marae Trustees. He has been Chair of 3B2 Ahuwhenua Trust for 40 years and has overseen conservation projects and pest eradication in the Bay of Islands. He played a significant role in the establishment of Te Rawhiti Enterprises Ltd, who in 2007 purchased a decommissioned Royal New Zealand Navy frigate that was scuttled to create a marine reef off Cape Brett to create a dive attraction and regenerate fish levels. This facilitated opportunities for locals to develop business initiatives around the reef. He was instrumental in forming the World-Polynesian Organisation (WMPO) and led a trade delegation of Māori to Malaysia in 2011 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between New Zealand and Malaysia regarding mutual eco-tourism ventures with 32 Ancestral Nations in the Pacific. He is currently Deputy President of WMPO. He supported the formation of the bi-lingual childcare centre Manaaki Whanau Roopu Tupurangi Te Kohanga Reo in 1989. Mr Clendon is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Te Ngaru Whare Akonga, a total immersion childcare centre in Manurewa, which he helped establish in 1996.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
DONALDSON, Mr Roger Lindsey
For services to film
Mr Roger Donaldson is a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and photographer who has been involved in the production of feature films, documentaries and short films both in New Zealand and internationally.
In the late 1960s Mr Donaldson established his film company Aardvark Films, through which he directed and produced commercials, narrative films, and documentaries including ‘Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed’. He directed a documentary adventure series featuring Sir Edmund Hillary, and collaborated on several projects for television including the anthology series ‘Winners and Losers’, which sold to 52 television outlets around the world. He directed and produced ‘Sleeping Dogs’ and wrote, produced and directed ‘Smash Palace’, two seminal works of New Zealand cinema that have influenced the development of the country’s film industry. In 1984 his film ‘The Bounty’, about the infamous HMS Bounty mutiny, provided him his first international break. Since then he has gone on to direct a number of Hollywood-produced films such as ‘Marie’, ‘No Way Out’, ‘Cocktail’, ‘Cadillac Man’, ‘Species’, ‘Dante’s Peak’, ‘Thirteen Days’, ‘The Recruit’, ‘Seeking Justice’, ‘The Bank Job’, and ‘The November Man’. In 2004 he wrote, directed, and co-produced the New Zealand film ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’, dramatizing the story of Burt Munro. In 2017, Mr Donaldson directed the documentary ‘McLaren’ about New Zealand motor-racing legend Bruce McLaren.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
FAAMAUSILI, Ms Fiaoo (Seiuli Fiaoo)
For services to rugby
Ms Seiuli Fiaoo Faamausili has captained the Black Ferns since 2012, is the most capped Black Fern at 52 caps, and has represented New Zealand at each of the five Rugby Women’s World Cup tournaments since 2002.
During that period the Black Ferns won four of the five titles, most recently in 2017. The Black Ferns were also recognised as the World Rugby’s 2017 team of the year, the first time the award was made to a women’s side, as well as team of the year at the 2017 New Zealand Rugby awards. Ms Faamausili has received numerous sporting awards during her career and the inaugural Fiaoo Faamausili Medal, recognising her contribution to women’s rugby, was presented in 2017 to acknowledge the best player in the Farah Palmer Cup at the women’s provincial level. She has captained the Auckland Storm team to success at the provincial level and has more than 90 appearances with the team since 1998. In the wider community she has been involved with Cure Kids NZ and has contributed to grass roots rugby. Ms Faamausili has balanced her rugby career against her career with the New Zealand Police as a Detective Constable since 2010.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
FEAR, Mrs Tracey Anne
For services to netball
Mrs Tracey Fear played for the Silver Ferns in the 1980s, including as Captain in 1988, and then went on to a career in coaching and as an administrator at the high performance level.
Mrs Fear played 69 tests for New Zealand, including gold medal wins at the 1985 World Games and 1987 World Tournament. After retiring as a player, she became immersed in coaching, including coaching the New Zealand A, New Zealand Under 21s, Waikato and the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic teams. She worked for the sport’s governing body, Netball New Zealand, first as a netball development officer before taking up the role of Netball Director. In this role she was responsible for the development of netball from five year olds through to the Silver Ferns. She became the High Performance Director at Netball New Zealand in 2002, a role she held for 10 years. During this time, she was responsible for the development and implementation of their strategic plans for high performance. Achievements included overseeing the successful campaigns for the 2003 World Netball Championships, 2005 World Youth Championships, and back to back gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games. Mrs Fear was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
FISHER, Mr Dallas
For services to business, philanthropy and sport
Mr Dallas Fisher is a philanthropic contributor to Hospice Waikato and a range of other not-for-profit organisations including Mesh Sculpture Hamilton Trust, Waikato Breast Cancer Research, and Perago Sporting Trust.
Mr Fisher’s business accomplishments range from a founder of NDA Group, a leading Waikato engineering firm, to setting up one of the country’s largest catering companies. He has given significant support to Hospice Waikato’s major annual fundraising event, the Bucket List Banquet, for the past five years. He has been Chair of business development entity Waikato Means Business since 2016. As a member of the Waikato Stadium Trust in the early 2000s he played a significant role in the greenlighting of the Waikato Stadium project. He has been Chair of the Chiefs Rugby franchise for eight years, during which time he has led growth in the organisation, including the naming rights partnership with Gallagher Group along with success in the Super Rugby competition. Recently he played an influential role in securing the New Zealand leg of the IRB HSBC Sevens competition for Hamilton. Mr Fisher currently chairs the Board of Go Bus Group, New Zealand’s largest passenger transport operator that is a joint venture between the respective commercial arms of Ngai Tahu and Waikato Tainui.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
GEMMING, Mrs Gillian Margaret
For services to hockey
Mrs Gill Gemming has been President of the Tauranga Hockey Association since 2016, having previously been a Board member from 2011 and a coach and manager since 2000.
Since 2000 Mrs Gemming has coached and managed Masters Women’s teams in Tauranga and through to international level, with her New Zealand Masters Women’s Team having consistently won the Pacific Rim Tournament. She has been Continental Development Manager for the Oceania Hockey Association since 2003, where she has been responsible for delivering the grassroots planning, administration systems, as well as the initial coaching of volunteers to grow the sport in smaller Pacific countries. She has been Director of Hockey at Tauranga Boys’ College since 1994. She piloted the Funsticks school programme to encourage more children into the sport, which has since been run throughout New Zealand. She is currently developing the Hockey Without Limits programme for those with disabilities. She was instrumental within the committee that set up the first turf in Tauranga in 1992 and the subsequent expansion to a second turf in 2000. Mrs Gemming led the development of the Bay of Plenty Hockey Council in 1997, who were instrumental in securing a position for hockey in the BayTrust CoachForce Programme which continues today.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
GRACE-SMITH, Ms Briar
For services to theatre, film and television
Ms Briar Grace-Smith is a nationally-renowned playwright and writer of short fiction, films and television.
Ms Grace-Smith produced a range of early plays between 1995 and 1997, which premiered at Taki Rua theatre before touring the country and abroad. She has written 11 major theatrical plays to date including ‘Purapurawhetū’ (1997) and ‘Paniora’ (2014). She has been a leading proponent of a new style of Māori theatre focusing on character-based human stories and a variety of contemporary and historical subjects including traditional arts, Māori mythology, rural and urban communities, and the 28th Māori Battalion. Since 1998 she has also written for short films, feature films and television. Her major works have included the television films ‘Fish Skin Suit’ and ‘Billy’, the feature films ‘The Strength of Water’ and ‘Fresh Meat’, and episodes of television series including ‘Being Eve’, ‘Kaitangata Twitch’, and the Australian series ‘Grace Beside Me’. She made her directorial debut in 2012 with the short film ‘9 of Hearts’ and was one of nine women directors and writers who co-created the feature film ‘Waru’. Her most recent short film ‘Krystal’ premieres in 2018. Ms Grace-Smith has toured schools as an ambassador for Toi Māori and the New Zealand Book Council, and has worked in New Zealand and abroad as a story consultant.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
GRANT, Ms Jacqueline (Jacquie), MNZM
For services to the community
Ms Jacquie Grant was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998 for her services to the community.
Ms Grant was appointed a member of the Human Rights Review Tribunal for several terms from 2003 to 2012. She was a community representative on the Benefit Review Committee for Work and Income New Zealand on the West Coast for 12 years. She was a member of the Grey District Council from 1998 to 2004 and has been a member of Enterprise Hokitika since 2005, previously serving as Chair. She was Treasurer and a founding member of the Chrissy Witoko Memorial Trust, which was established to raise funds to alleviate hardship caused by illness or death in the gay and transgender community in the Wellington region. She has headed fundraising and beautification projects within the Hokitika community including the restoration and relocation of the Pioneer Monument statue to the main street and the raising of $40,000 for the installation of Christmas lights for December 2017. She is an active member of the Hokitika Lions Club, where she is regularly involved with fundraising functions. Having fostered more than 75 young people until 1999, Ms Grant has remained involved as a ‘foster nan’ for the children of those she previously cared for.
HONOURS
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, New Year 1998
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
HAINES, Mr Rodger Phillip George, QC
For services to refugee and human rights law
Mr Rodger Haines was one of the original appointees to the newly-formed Refugee Status Appeal Authority in 1991 and remained a member until its disestablishment in 2010, serving as Deputy Chair from 1994 onwards.
Several of Mr Haines’ decisions have been cited with approval by the House of Lords (now the United Kingdom Supreme Court). From 1993 to 2012 he was Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland, teaching immigration and refugee law. In 2011 he was appointed Chair of the Human Rights Review Tribunal (HRRT) and in this role has tackled and honed nuanced human rights issues, which have directly affected the New Zealand litigants who appear before the HRRT and more broadly as his scrutiny has been applied to domestic legislation. For many years he compiled and maintained the New Zealand Refugee Law website, a database of cases and materials relevant to refugee law and human rights law. He has participated in the Michigan Colloquium process in which refugee law scholars, judges and students come together to produce the Michigan Guidelines on aspects of refugee law. Mr Haines has also participated in a number of projects with the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, including courses on refugee law and the Convention against Torture held in various countries.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
HELLIER, Mrs Kirsten Louise
For services to sport, particularly athletics
Mrs Kirsten Hellier pioneered New Zealand women’s javelin throwing and went on to become one of New Zealand’s most successful throwing coaches.
Mrs Hellier was the New Zealand women’s javelin throwing champion in 1987, consecutively from 1989 to 1995, and in 1999. She represented New Zealand internationally on several occasions, won silver at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, and was the first New Zealand woman to throw the javelin 50 metres and 60 metres. She has coached numerous athletes to New Zealand titles and representations, including coaching and mentoring Dame Valerie Adams between 1998 and 2010. She coached at Macleans College in Auckland for 13 years before coaching at Howick College. She is currently High Performance Programme Coach – Throws with Athletics New Zealand. She has been athletics coach with a number of New Zealand teams competing internationally, including at the 2002 World Junior Championships, 2002 Commonwealth Games, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, the Oceania World Cup in 2006, and the World Athletic Championships in 2007 and 2009. She was throwing coach with Athletics China at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Locally Mrs Hellier currently holds coach and secretary roles with the Pakuranga Athletics Club.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
HOSKING, Dr Gordon Phillip
For services to conservation
Dr Gordon Hosking has been a Trustee of Project Crimson for 27 years and has made significant contributions to the organisation’s efforts to protect pōhutukawa, rātā, and other native trees.
Dr Hosking’s career has included positions with the Forest Research Institute/Scion Forest Health Group and the Ministry of Forestry, as well as establishing his own technology company to advance new initiatives in environmentally acceptable quarantine treatments. He designed an indigenous forest health assessment package, delivered in a joint venture with Scion. He began an investigation into the health of Metrosideros Excelsa (mainland pōhutukawa) in 1989, discovering more than 90 percent of coast pōhutukawa stands were dead or dying. In conjunction with the Department of Conservation and Carter Holt Harvey a community-based project to rescue the tree was established, becoming the Project Crimson Trust. He has planted thousands of trees at Project Crimson events and has contributed to the Trust’s environmental education initiatives. He led operations for the Living Legends conservation project, which from 2011 to 2016 saw more than 170,000 native trees planted to commemorate New Zealand’s hosting of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Dr Hosking helped establish Trees That Count in 2016, a national project encouraging New Zealanders to plant millions more native trees to mitigate climate change.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
HYDE, Ms Rhonda Violet Marion (Rhonda Kite)
For services to media technology, television and film
Ms Rhonda Kite is an award-winning producer of television and film, and an internationally successful entrepreneur in media technology and electronic publishing.
Ms Kite produced her first television documentary, ‘Ōtara - Defying The Odds’ in 1998 to critical acclaim. She has since produced several successful television documentaries, dramatic series and the long-running Māori arts programme ‘Kete Aronui’. She produced the 2006 feature length acclaimed documentary film ‘Squeegee Bandit’. She founded the Kiwa Media Group in 2001 and pioneered the re-voicing of cartoons into te reo Māori, through which she oversaw the creation of the post-production dialogue recording software, VoiceQ. VoiceQ won a Hollywood Post Alliance commendation and is now sold globally. In 2009, Kiwa Digital evolved into an innovator and producer of digital books featuring instant translation into several languages. The technology incorporates interactive and visual enhancement features and now services international publishers. The KIWA SLAM workshop, known internationally as ‘VOICES of Children’ was first rolled out in the United States in Alaska and later into New Zealand. ‘VOICES’, a storytelling literacy workshop, assists children in publishing their own stories on global platforms. Ms Kite became CEO of the start-up KIWA FZ-LLZ, an expansion of KIWA (NZ) into the United Arab Emirates in 2015.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
JEFFERY, Mr Richard James
For services to governance and the community
Mr Richard Jeffery has been the founding CEO of Second Nature Charitable Trust since its establishment in 2000.
Mr Jeffery has overseen the raising of nearly $100 million to establish two community facilities in South Auckland, namely the Vodafone Events Centre opened in 2000 that has since seen the delivery of some of New Zealand’s largest school and community programmes for more than four million people, and the Vector Wero Whitewater Park opened in 2016. The Whitewater Park has provided youth programmes accessed by more than 11,000 school children and a world-class facility for elite athletes, including functioning as an international standard training ground for Canoe Slalom New Zealand. In his role as CEO he has established the largest free schools programme in New Zealand for the performing arts, which now attracts 36,000 students a year. In 2010 he established his own private fund called the Rangahua Fund, which provided scholarships to young people to undertake social worker diplomas to help them serve their communities. He is a Trustee of The Rising Foundation, which mentors more than 300 South Auckland children annually. Mr Jeffery was founder and Chairman of the Manukau Arts Festival from 2008 to 2010.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
KERRIDGE, Mr Robert James (Bob), MNZM, KStJ, JP
For services to animal welfare and governance
Mr Bob Kerridge was Executive Director of the SPCA in Auckland from 1984 until 2016 and in this capacity greatly increased public awareness of animal welfare.
Mr Kerridge served as National President of the RNZSPCA from 2010 to 2013. He has been a member of the New Zealand World Society for the Protection of Animals Board and the St John Auckland Trust Board and Priory. In conjunction with St John he developed Outreach Therapy Pets. In 2008 he established the SPCA Cat Coalition to support volunteer efforts to assist stray cats. He was founding Chair of Companion Animal Workshops and, in association with the New Zealand Veterinary association, established the New Zealand Companion Animal Council (NZCAC) in 1997. Through the NZCAC he has introduced the micro-chipping of pets, the New Zealand Companion Animal Register in 2007, and the New Zealand Companion Animal Trust in 2008. In 2011 he commissioned and published the first comprehensive statistical survey of Companion Animals in New Zealand with the NZCAC. Recently he established the Bob Kerridge Animal Welfare Fellowship to recognise animals, humans and the environment living in harmony. Mr Kerridge established the Saint James Saviours Group in 2009 to undertake the preservation of the historic Saint James Theatre in Auckland and later founded the St James Auckland Trust in 2012.
HONOURS
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, New Year 2005
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
LANGBEIN, Ms Annabel Rose
For services as a food writer
Ms Annabel Langbein is a cook and food writer who has self-published 25 cookbooks and starred in three seasons of the internationally successfully cooking programme ‘Annabel Langbein: the Free Range Cook’, which has screened in 94 countries.
Having had an early career as a food columnist, Ms Langbein was food writer for ‘Cuisine’ for 11 years and later food editor for ‘Grace’ magazine. In 1988 she self-published her first book of recipes ‘Annabel Langbein’s Cookbook’ and has since risen to become one of New Zealand’s highest selling authors of all time. Her 1997 book ‘The Best of Annabel Langbein’ has sold more than half a million copies internationally and her books have topped New Zealand best-seller lists. Overall she has sold more than two million books through her self-publishing imprint Annabel Langbein Media. In 1991 she established the Culinary Institute of New Zealand, a specialist food marketing consultancy, through which she has undertaken marketing and media campaigns for food manufacturers, retailers and exporters. She has promoted New Zealand food overseas as an ambassador for Trade New Zealand. Ms Langbein was a director of Kapiti Cheeses for seven years and is a member of the Sustainability Council of New Zealand.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
LEACH, Emeritus Professor Helen May
For services to culinary anthropology
Emeritus Professor Helen Leach is an authority on culinary anthropology and has conducted research for more than 50 years into the history of New Zealand, the archaeology and anthropology of Oceanic culture, and the social history and anthropology of horticultural practices.
Professor Leach has lectured at the University of Otago’s Department of Anthropology since 1969, is the author of 22 books, and has contributed more than 40 chapters to other publications. In the 1960s and 1970s she authored several books on prehistoric man in New Zealand and later achieved renown with her 1984 publication ‘1,000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand’, an illustrated study of gardening throughout the entire period of human settlement in the country. More recently she completed a ten year research project into the material culture of cooking among New Zealanders living in the past two centuries. Throughout this project she collected more than 2,000 New Zealand cookbooks, many of them fundraising texts contributed by local communities, which have been catalogued into a comprehensive database and is a significant resource for the culinary anthropology field. Professor Leach has published a series of critically acclaimed books including ‘The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand’s Culinary History’ (2008) and ‘Kitchens: The New Zealand Kitchen in the 20th Century’ (2014).
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
LORIMER, Mr Peter John
For services to the State
Mr Peter Lorimer has worked at Treasury since 1988 and he has held a variety of positions through which he has contributed to the public service.
Mr Lorimer has played a key role in developing legislation, such as the Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994 and the Public Finance Act 1989. He was instrumental in supporting the passage of the Public Finance Act by providing advice and information. He has supported the ability of successive generations of officials to understand and deliver on the technical practicalities and the broader intent of the Public Finance Act. His contributions have enabled the Act to remain up-to-date and effective through changing circumstances. Mr Lorimer held previous positions with the Treasury from 1968 to 1977 and with the Department of Labour from 1977 to 1988.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
LOVE, Professor Robert Matthew
For services to dentistry
Professor Robert Love is a recognised international expert in dental accreditation, education and regulation and a multi-award winning researcher.
Professor Love has held a number of senior positions with the University of Otago’s Faculty of Dentistry, including Professor and Head of Department, Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences, Deputy Dean and Discipline Head of Endodontics. He developed generalist and specialist clinical programmes that have educated New Zealanders and led to internationalisation, in particular providing higher education for practitioners from the Pacific Islands. His training of specialist endodontists is recognised internationally as world standard and he has trained the majority of practicing endodontists in New Zealand. He is a member of the editorial boards of three major journal publications in his field and a member of the Asia Pacific Endodontic Federation. He has given numerous national and international presentations and held governance positions with a number of professional organisations. He was first appointed to the Dental Council in 2002 and served until 2011, including time as Chair. He was an inaugural member of the joint accreditation committee with the Australian Dental Council and initiated a partnership with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada. Professor Love has been involved in international benchmarking of assessments of overseas dental practitioners to set global transparent standards.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
NAWALOWALO, Ms Nina Catharine
For services to theatre and Pacific culture
Ms Nina Nawalowalo has written, produced and directed award-winning and Pasifika-themed theatre productions for more than 20 years and her productions have been staged at 40 festivals throughout the world.
In 2002 Ms Nawalowalo co-founded Pasifika theatre company the Conch, where she continues as Artistic Director. Her first play ‘Vula’ premiered at Wellington’s Bats Theatre in 2002, telling a story of women’s practical, spiritual and mythic relationship to the sea in Pasifika societies, and went on to tour nationally and internationally for a total of seven years. In 2012 the New Zealand International Arts Festival commissioned her play ‘Masi’, which toured to the Sydney International Festival and was the first major international work to tour to Fiji. Her recent work has included ‘The White Guitar’ (2015) which has toured domestically for two years with sold out seasons. She devised the recent productions ‘Marama’ (2016) and ‘The Magicians’ (2017). She is a mentor through the Emerging Artists Trust and in 2009 directed the Conchus Season, a collection of three debut works by young performers. In 2013 the British Council commissioned Ms Nawalowalo to undertake a two year project to establish a national women’s theatre company in the Solomon Islands, which resulted in the touring production ‘Stages of Change’, highlighting the issue of domestic violence in Pacific society.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
NGAWATI, Mrs Carol Ann
For services to sport, education and Māori
Mrs Carol Ngawati co-founded the Waitakere Māori Touch and Māori Touch New Zealand organisations in 1998 and has since focused on developing and promoting Māori achievement through the medium of touch rugby.
Mrs Ngawati played a key role in giving New Zealand Māori teams the opportunity to participate in international competition through the establishment of the World Indigenous Touch Competition. Māori Touch New Zealand has held successful national tournaments for more than 20 years to select teams for international competition. She was instrumental in establishing a bilingual Māori/English unit at Ranui Primary School. She is the co-founder of He Wero o Nga Wahine, a school and support facility for young mothers to continue their education. She was an inaugural Trustee of the Black Pearl Trust, which established the Black Pearl Awards to celebrate Māori women making a difference in health and the community. This led her to develop and lead the operation of a Mana Wahine Day forum for secondary schools in Auckland and a transition to high school programme for at risk Māori students in West Auckland. As Chairperson of the Waitakere Education Sector Trust she led the development of the Waitakere Education Plan. Mrs Ngawati has served as Chairperson of the Resource Teachers Learning and Behaviour Māori Caucus and Hoani Waititi Marae Trust.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
NICHOLSON, Mr Andrew Clifton
For services to equestrian sport
Mr Andrew Nicholson has represented New Zealand in equestrian sports internationally for more than 30 years.
Mr Nicholson has competed as an equestrian eventing rider at six Olympic Games, notably as a member of the silver medal winning event team at the 1992 Barcelona games and of the bronze medal winning teams at the 1996 and 2012 Olympics. He has competed at seven World Equestrian Games, notably as part of the gold medal winning team in 1990 and as a winner of team and individual bronze medals in 2010. Between 1995 and 2017 he won nine Concours Complet International Four Star events. Having broken his neck during the British Open Championships in 2015, he was able to recover and compete to win the Badminton Horse Trials in 2017. He has mentored and trained a number of New Zealand and international riders who have gone on to compete and win medals at the Olympic level. Within New Zealand Mr Nicholson has provided his time and donated memorabilia to fundraising events in the Waikato region.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
O'BRIEN, Associate Professor Michael Anthony
For services to social policy and education
Associate Professor Michael O’Brien is a leading social policy academic who has taught in social work programmes for 38 years and contributed to the wellbeing of children and families through a range of roles.
Associate Professor O’Brien is a Life Member of Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers. He has been a member of the Management Committee of the Child Poverty Action Group. He has been Convenor of the Inequality and Poverty Group of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services. In conjunction with Presbyterian Support Northern he helped establish Impact Research New Zealand as an independent research unit in the social service sector. He was a Board member of Te Waipuna Puawai Mercy Oasis community development project from 2001 to 2011. He was a member of the expert panel established by the Human Rights Commission on Right to an Adequate Standard of Living 2009. He chaired the Welfare Justice Reform Group appointed by Caritas, Benefit Advocacy Coordinators, and Anglican Social Justice Commission in 2010. He was a Board member of the Auckland City Mission from 1998 to 2011. Associate Professor O’Brien’s publications are widely cited in academic and practice contexts and the policy text ‘Social Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand’ is used extensively in universities and polytechnics across New Zealand.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
PARR, Mr Larry George
For services to film and television
Mr Larry Parry has had a long career with the New Zealand screen industry since the 1970s as a producer, scriptwriter, director, and television executive.
Mr Parr was associate producer of the landmark film ‘Sleeping Dogs’ (1977). He has since produced more than 20 feature films, including a number of iconic 1980s New Zealand films such as ‘Smash Palace’ (1981) and ‘Came a Hot Friday’ (1984). He made his directorial debut with the short film ‘The Makutu on Mrs Jones’ in 1983, before making his feature directorial debut with ‘A Soldier’s Tale’ in 1988. He produced the television anthology series ‘E Tipu e Rea’ in 1989, a ground-breaking project in which almost all of the cast and crew were Māori. He has mentored other notable New Zealand producers and has made significant contributions to developing Māori involvement in the film industry. His second film as director, ‘Fracture’, was released in 2004. He was director of production for Television New Zealand’s Avalon Studios from 1992 to 1993 and head of programming for Māori Television from 2005 to 2008. Mr Parr became television manager at Te Māngai Pāho in 2008, which was established to fund Māori radio and television programmes, later becoming Chief Executive in 2016.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
RANGI, Ms Caren Jane
For services to the Pacific community and governance
Ms Caren Rangi is an accountant/auditor who founded Ei Mua Consulting Ltd in 2008 and has contributed her services to the Pacific community in a range of governance roles.
Ms Rangi was National President of the Pacific women’s council PACIFICA Inc. from 2015 to 2017, during which time she headed a number of initiatives and mentored other women into leadership roles. She has been a Trustee since 2011 and Chair from 2016 of Pacific Island Homecare Services Trust. She is a Trustee of Te Matau a Maui Voyaging Trust. She is an Associate of the Centre for Social Impact New Zealand and was a Trustee of the Eastern and Central Community Trust between 2010 and 2018. She is a Director of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation in Rarotonga and of Pacific Inc. Limited, and is a past Trustee and Chair of the Pacific Business Trust Board. She was a member of the inaugural Pacific Women’s Economic Development Advisory Board from 2007 to 2009. She was made a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand in 2015. She was a founding member of the Charities Registration Board from 2012 to 2018. Ms Rangi is currently the Deputy Chair of the Arts Council of New Zealand.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
RATIMA, Mr Desma Kemp (Des), JP
For services to Māori
Mr Des Ratima has given significant service to the development of the Whakatu community over the past 14 years.
Mr Ratima has chaired Whakatu Kohanga Reo for 10 years, reviving it from a struggling early childhood education provider to a successful learning nest. He organised the inaugural Whakatu Christmas in the Park event in 2003. He has been Chairperson of the Te Kupenga A Maui and Whaia o te Ara Police committees since 2007, helping to develop strategies to reduce the number of Māori involved in crime. He is Chair of the post-settlement entity Ahuriri District Health Trust, having previously been a negotiating member of the claims committee for five years. He has worked with Māori Wardens regionally and was Deputy Chair of New Zealand Māori Council (NZMC), during which time he reorganised the local structure and created the Takitimu District Māori Wardens. He has represented Takitimu District Māori Council on the NZMC since 2012. He has been a cultural and environmental advisor for regional and district councils and a member of the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board Māori Relationship Board. He is Chair of the Marae collective Nga Marae O Heretaunga and has helped organise various projects. Mr Ratima was instrumental in establishing the first military marae in Waiouru in 1995.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
RAUMATI, Archdeacon Tikituterangi (Tiki)
For services to Māori and the community
Archdeadon Tiki Raumati has been involved with the Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia for 50 years.
Archdeacon Raumati has been Priest Kaumatua of the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki for more than 25 years and is recognised for his ability to bridge communities. He has been kaumatua for nearly three decades with Tu Tama Wahine o Taranaki, which provides services in family violence prevention, social service and health provision, and community development. He has been an active member of the anger management programme for male offenders referred to Tu Tama Wahine by the Courts. He was a member of the Department of Internal Affairs Māori Advisory Group for 12 years. He led the cultural aspects for the relocation of the Treaty of Waitangi, the Declaration of Independence, and Women’s Suffrage petition to the He Tohu exhibition in the National Library, providing guidance for the Department to move these significant documents in a safe and culturally sensitive way. He has worked closely with DIA’s New Plymouth branch, facilitating relationships with the Taranaki community and making services available to those who may not have otherwise been aware of them. Archdeacon Raumati is an active rangatira and kaumatua of Ngāti Mutunga and Te Ati Awa nui tonu.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
SHADBOLT, Professor Nicola Mary
For services to agribusiness
Professor Nicola Shadbolt has been a professor of Farm and Agribusiness Management at Massey University since 1996.
Professor Shadbolt has more than 35 years’ experience as a farmer and she and her husband founded and developed a significant farming enterprise, which now operates as four equity partnerships trading in dairy, beef, sheep, deer and forestry. She worked within the advisory sector as Manager of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ National Info-Systems Centre in the mid-1980s. She has authored more than 100 research articles on a variety of subjects, is editor of two international academic journals, and was co-editor of the textbook ‘Farm Management in New Zealand’. She co-directed the Centre of Excellence in Farm Business Management and is a Director of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. She was co-facilitator of the Icehouse Agribusiness courses and developer and facilitator of four Food and Agribusiness Market Experience Courses. She has served as a New Zealand representative on a number of OECD workshops relating to risk management and environmental indicators in agribusiness. From 2001 she has represented New Zealand on the International Farm Comparison network in dairying, a research partnership of 46 countries. Professor Shadbolt was the first elected woman director of the Fonterra Cooperative.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
SHEPHERD, Mr Roger Norman
For services to the music industry
Mr Roger Shepherd established the music label Flying Nun Records in 1981, which has since fostered, recorded and promoted New Zealand music.
Flying Nun rose to national prominence in championing the emerging music of Christchurch and Dunedin, with early releases of The Pin Group, The Clean, and the seminal ‘Dunedin Double EP’. Through Flying Nun Mr Shepherd has provided an outlet to New Zealand musicians, particularly young musicians, who would not otherwise have had their music recorded or released. A number of these artists have gone on to sign record deals overseas. His peers in the music industry regard him as an inspiration and a pioneer, and a man who put personal financial gain aside in the interests of the artists. Flying Nun Records was the recipient of a New Zealand Trade and Enterprise export award and is regarded as an integral part of New Zealand music history. Flying Nun Records merged with Mushroom Records in 2000 and was bought by the Warner Music Group in 2006, later being bought back in 2009 by a consortium that included Mr Shepherd. He remains involved as a company director of Flying Nun, which relocated to Auckland in 2012, and released the book “In Love with These Times – My Life With Flying Nun Records” in 2016.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
TITCOMBE, Mr Graeme John
For services to the home support sector and the community
Mr Graeme Titcombe had an extensive career in the electrical and electronic manufacturing and service industries in New Zealand and Australia before becoming CEO of Access HomeHealth (now Access Community Health).
Access Community Health is a provider of home-based health and disability services owned by Rural Women New Zealand. Mr Titcombe was CEO from 1999 until 2015, during which time he led the consolidation of a range of rural support services into a national service and oversaw significant growth. He joined the New Zealand Home Health Association as a regional representative in 2000 and was elected President from 2001 to 2006. He was a strong advocate and driver of several key outcomes for the home support sector, including the development of a nationally consistent health and safety standard for home based services in 2003, qualifications for support workers, sector funding uplifts, and the development of the Home and Community Support Services Costing Template in 2014. Within his local community Mr Titcombe has held leadership positions with the Rotary Club of Karori, was Treasurer of the Rotary Sanctuary Discover Area, Chair of Karori Community Bus since 2007, has been a founding Trustee of the Karori Community Hall Trust, and provides voluntary accounting support for the Marsden Day Care Trust.
To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
TODD, Ms Katrina
For services to dance
Ms Katrina Todd had a ten-year international dance career performing with London Festival Ballet, Washington Ballet Company USA, Australian Opera Company, and Sydney Dance Company.
Returning to New Zealand in 1990, Ms Todd completed a three year Alexander Technique teacher training and taught in private practice and on the BA Performance Arts Degree at Unitec until 2012. In 2014 she was the driving force behind the establishment of Wellesley Studios, a Dance House in Auckland, to provide world-class facilities for international and national dance companies, residencies and other opportunities for the New Zealand professional dance sector and wider dance community. She continues to personally contribute towards the Studio’s daily operating costs. Since 1994 she has also been providing annual scholarships, financial support and mentoring to numerous young dancers, as well as supporting arts organisations to provide platforms for New Zealand Dance. She has served as Trustee on the Board of Integrated Neurological Rehabilitation Foundation, was a Patron of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Dress Circle Programme, and a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the New Zealand Dance Company from 2012 to 2017. Ms Todd is currently serving on the Board of Trustees for the New Zealand School of Dance.