To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
BORROWS, The Honourable Kerry James (Chester)
For services as a Member of Parliament
The Honourable Chester Borrows was first elected to Parliament as the Member for the Whanganui electorate in 2005 and held the seat until stepping down from politics in 2017.
While in opposition between 2005 and 2008 Mr Borrows was appointed National Party Police spokesman and, as part of the Law and Order team, worked on policies dealing with Police, Corrections and Justice that formed a substantive part of the 100 Day Action Plan. From 2008 to 2011 he was Chair of the Justice and Electoral Select Committee and a member of the Social Services Select Committee. He contributed to the Fresh Start youth justice reforms introduced in 2009, which saw a decline in serious and persistent youth offending through a range of initiatives. In 2011 he was appointed Minister for Courts and held the portfolio until 2014, alongside the associate portfolios of Justice and Social Development. Following the 2014 General Election he was elected to the role of Deputy Speaker of the House. Mr Borrows is Patron of Birthright Whanganui and is involved in his community as a Lay Preacher and Funeral/Marriage Celebrant.
HONOURS
Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct, 1978
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
BROWN, Mr Michael Joseph
For services to governance
Mr Michael Brown has been involved with the governance of Wellington Free Ambulance since the 1950s.
Mr Brown began his involvement as Treasurer in 1959 and identified that the organisation was receiving more funds through bequests than was needed to run the service at the time. He set up the Wellington Free Ambulance Trust in response so that any surplus and bequests could be protected for the long term benefit of the organisation, enabling the service to develop into a world class paramedic service uniquely free to the people of Greater Wellington and Wairarapa. The Trust has since grown its capital base to $14 million and over the past 10 years provided a further $14 million in grants to the Wellington Free Ambulance Service. His guidance of the Trust fund has seen interest and revenue from investments bolster the amount of money the service has needed to raise each year to make up the difference between government funding and the cost of running the service. He continues to serve as Honorary Treasurer and as a Trustee of the Wellington Free Ambulance Trust. Mr Brown has given hundreds of hours of his time voluntarily to preparing for and attending Trust meetings over the 58 years of his involvement.
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
CUNLIFFE, The Honourable David Richard
For services as a Member of Parliament
The Honourable David Cunliffe was Leader of the Opposition from September 2013 to September 2014 and previously held Ministerial portfolios in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand.
Mr Cunliffe was first elected to Parliament as the Member for Titirangi from 1999 to 2002, before becoming MP for New Lynn from 2002 until 2017. He held the Ministerial portfolios of Communications and Information Technology, Health, Immigration, and State for various periods under the Fifth Labour Government. He was also Associate Minister of Revenue, State Owned Enterprises, Finance, and Economic Development. As Immigration Minister he initiated a major review of the Immigration Act 1987. As Minister for Communications and Information Technology he announced extensive pro-competitive reform of the telecommunications sector, including local loop unbundling and operational separation of then Telecom New Zealand. In 2008 he was conferred the title of Honorary Fellow of the NZCS by the New Zealand Computer Society, the professional body of the ICT profession, in recognition of his contribution to the ICT sector. In opposition Mr Cunliffe was spokesperson for a range of portfolios including Finance and Economic Development and held membership on a number of select committees, including as Chair of the Regulations Review select committee and the Commerce select committee.
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
DRUMM, Ms Jane Louise
For services to victims of domestic violence
Ms Jane Drumm has provided support for victim of domestic violence for more than 20 years.
In 1997 Ms Drumm became Executive Director of the violence prevention agency now known as Shine, one of the largest community organisations in New Zealand dealing with domestic abuse. When Shine merged with Presbyterian Support Northern in 2016, she continued in the role of General Manager. She has grown Shine from a small organisation of four staff to more than 30 staff providing a wide range of training and educational programmes, and services for victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse in Auckland and nationally. Under her leadership Shine pioneered new initiatives in New Zealand such as the use of analytical tools to assess victims’ risk of lethality or death; an advocacy service based at Auckland Hospital; DVFREE which assists corporates develop an employer response for staff affected by domestic abuse; the KIDshine programme which educates children exposed to violence on how to react to and escape violence; and safe@home which upgrades house security for high risk victims of domestic abuse to remain living safely in their homes. More widely Ms Drumm has researched and written reports on domestic abuse, regularly presented at conferences and seminars, and provided consultation on policy, service development and changes in legislation to policy analysts, researchers and ministerial representatives.
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
FOWLER, Mr Robert John
For services to the community
Mr Robert Fowler established the Howick Pakuranga Community Patrol in 1993 and served as Chairman from inception until 2016.
During this time Mr Fowler sought to network with other community patrols, which fed into the establishment of the Community Patrols of New Zealand Charitable Trust (CPNZ) in 2002, of which he was a founding Trustee. CPNZ has grown to encompass 6,000 volunteers working with government and Police to keep communities safe. CPNZ covers 152 communities around New Zealand and has three staff in Police National Headquarters in Wellington and one staff member in Police Headquarters in Auckland. He has been a Trustee of CPNZ for 15 years and is currently Treasurer and immediate past Chairman. As Chairman he managed the first government service provider contract and established a partnership with the Ministry of Justice. He instigated the CPNZ response to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and utilising CPNZ’s network of community patrollers set up a housing scheme to shelter more than 100 displaced community members. He has been involved with CPNZ as a partner with New Zealand Police to recruit and train people of different ethnicities to assist in the development of demographically wider Police staffing. Mr Fowler has served on the Auckland Council subcommittee for safer communities.
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
FOX, Mrs Raewyn Christine
For services to family budgeting services and the community
Mrs Raewyn Fox has contributed to the development of family budgeting in New Zealand through her involvement with the New Zealand Federation of Family Budgeting Services (NZFFBS), of which she was CEO from 1999 until retiring in 2017.
Mrs Fox began as Coordinator of the Porirua Budgeting Service in 1987 and progressed to more senior roles, including as a National Committee member for six years and NZFFBS President for three years. As CEO she oversaw the implementation of a quality assurance programme for services offered, a new training policy, increased profiling of NZFFBS nationally, the co-development of funding strategies which increased revenue to $1.2 million over 10 years, the implementation of a new adult financial literacy community education strategy and designing the introduction of financial literacy into the school curriculum. In addition to her roles with the NZFFBS and various other government and statutory bodies she has contributed to a range of community organisations. Mrs Fox was a leader of Girls’ Brigade for 12 years, committee member of the Paremata YMCA, Treasurer of the Porirua Citizens Advice Bureau, held roles with the Porirua Community Service Centre Committee, an Executive Committee member of Porirua Council of Social Services, and a Trustee of Trustbank Wellington Community Trust and Mana Christian Care and Counselling Centre.
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
GEIDT, The Right Honourable Sir Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie, Lord Geidt of Crobeg, GCB, GCVO, OBE
For services as Private Secretary to The Queen of New Zealand
The Right Honourable Sir Christopher Geidt has worked closely with New Zealand in his role as Private Secretary to the Queen, to promote New Zealand’s interests and relationships with the Sovereign and senior members of the Royal family.
Sir Christopher was Private Secretary to the Queen for ten years until his retirement in October 2017. His career began with military service in the British Army, including operational tours in the Gulf, Cambodia and former Yugoslavia. He worked at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies before later joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where he served in diplomatic posts in Sarajevo, Geneva and Brussels. He joined the Royal Household in 2002 as Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen, becoming Private Secretary in 2007. He has supported successive New Zealand Prime Ministers in their constitutional relationship with Her Majesty as Queen of New Zealand, ensuring that advice from New Zealand on New Zealand matters is conveyed directly to our Head of State. He has also supported strengthened relationships between senior members of the Royal family and New Zealand. He has provided significant help on a range of important and complex issues that have arisen in recent years, in particular New Zealand’s work leading the 15 Realm countries that have the Queen as Head of State to adopt updated laws about the succession to the throne for each of those countries.
HONOURS
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 2017
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 2017
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, 2014
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 2011
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 2007
Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1997
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
SMOL, Mr David
For services to the State
Mr David Smol was the founding Chief Executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) from 2012 to 2017, successfully leading the integration of four public sector agencies into a business-facing agency.
Mr Smol’s leadership in the early days was critical in ensuring the organisation’s success, with its fundamental importance to the New Zealand business community. Under his leadership, the Ministry and the economic sector has delivered on a number of government strategies and targets, including the Business Growth Agenda, Better Public Services Result 9, the regional economic development and science and innovation investment programmes, New Zealand Business Numbers, and the service transformation work to make 100 percent online services for intellectual property rights and visas for students, work and visitors. He has been instrumental in advancing a Māori economic strategy through He Kai Ki Aku Ringa, the Māori-Crown economic partnership. In the area of system performance, MBIE’s procurement and property functional leadership role is projected to deliver total savings of $770 million over the life of new All-of-Government contracts. As Chief Executive of the Ministry of Economic Development from 2008 to 2012 and Deputy Secretary (Energy and Communications Branch) from 2003 to 2008, Mr Smol’s leadership has been critical to the New Zealand economy.
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
TISCH, Mr William Lindsay (Lindsay), JP
For services as a Member of Parliament
Mr Lindsay Tisch has been a Member of Parliament since 1999 and for the Waikato Electorate from 2008 until retiring from politics in 2017.
Mr Tisch was first elected as MP for Karapiro from 1999 to 2002 and retained the seat from 2002 to 2008 when it was renamed Piako (now the Waikato electorate). He was a Presiding Officer of Parliament from 2008 to 2017 including Assistant Speaker and Deputy Speaker. He has been a member of a range of Parliamentary Select Committees and was Junior and Senior Whip for the National Party between 2002 and 2006. He was National Party President in 1994 and the Party’s Campaign Manager for the first Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP) election in 1996. He was a director of Land Corporation Ltd from 1991 to 1997, a former member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors, the New Zealand Institute of Property Management, and the New Zealand Institute of Valuers. Since 2005 he has been a Trustee of the Matamata-based Pohlen Hospital Foundation and is currently the Chairman. Mr Tisch has been a member of the Matamata Lions Club since 1982 and a Justice of the Peace since 1994.
HONOURS
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order:
WEIR, Ms Evelyn Marion
For services to seniors and the community
Mrs Evelyn Weir has contributed to the communities of Christchurch and Hamilton through a range of organisations and community groups.
Mrs Weir was a member of the Christchurch Branch of the National Council of Women from 1975 to 1990 and served as Vice President. She was elected to the Fendalton Community Board of the Christchurch City Council and helped establish the Children’s Television Foundation in Christchurch. In 1997 she was instrumental in the establishment of the Celebrating Age Centre for the Hamilton City Council and served as manager until 1998. Soon after she became a council member for the newly established Age Concern Hamilton office, a role she continues in today having served as Vice President and President for a time. She was elected to the National Board of Age Concern New Zealand in 2005, later serving as Vice President and most recently as President from 2012 to 2016. During this time she oversaw considerable change to the organisation. Mrs Weir was Chair of the Community Health Forum of the Waikato District Health Board from 2009 to 2016, a member of the Advisory Group for Age-wise with Waikato DHB, and a Volunteer Community Coordinator with the Office of Senior Citizens.