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1993 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1993 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1992 and the beginning of 1993, and were announced on 31 December 1992. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour. Knight Bachelor * The Honourable John Francis Jeffries – lately a judge of the High Court. * Gordon Charles Mason . For services to local government. File:John Jeffries (crop).jpg, Sir John Jeffries File:Gordon Mason 1944 (cropped).jpg, Sir Gordon Mason Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Companion (CMG) * Professor Margaret Clark. For services to education. * The Right Honourable David Spence Thomson . For public services. File:David Spence Thomson.jpg, David Thomson Order of the British Empire Dame Commander (DBE) ;Civil division * Reubina Ann Ballin . For servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime, and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aroha Reriti-Crofts
Dame Aroha Hōhipera Reriti-Crofts (née Crofts; 28 August 1938 – 20 May 2022) was a New Zealand community worker who was national president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League. Biography Reriti-Crofts was born Aroha Hōhipera Crofts at Tuahiwi on 28 August 1938, the daughter of Metapere Ngawini Crofts (née Barrett) and Edward Teoreohua Crofts. Of Māori descent, she affiliated to Ngāi Tahu, and was educated at Te Waipounamu Maori Girls' College in Christchurch. She married Peter Reriti, and the couple had four children. From 1978 to 1979, Reriti-Crofts returned to study as an adult student at Aranui High School in Christchurch, and went on to complete a teaching diploma at Christchurch Teachers' College in 1983. Reriti-Crofts died in Christchurch on 20 May 2022, aged 83 years. Community activities From the age of seven, Reriti-Crofts was involved in kapa haka: she was co-tutor of the Māori cultural performance group at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Baker
Erin Margaret Baker (born 23 May 1961) is a former New Zealand triathlete. She won many world championship and Ironman titles. Early life Baker was born in 1961 in Kaiapoi, New Zealand. Upon the suggestion by her mother, Mary, Baker began running competitively at age 15 and showed ability right from the start. "I remember the first day Erin competed in a cross-country race. I was waiting for her to come in thinking God, she won't be very pleased because she hasn’t done very well. In fact, I missed her crossing the finish line a quarter of an hour earlier, in first place." Baker is one of eight children. Her siblings include Philippa Baker (New Zealand rower and 1991 & 1994 Halberg award winner) and Kathy and Maureen who were both national titlists in swimming and aerobics. Competitive career Baker was originally coached by John Hellemans but controlled and developed her successful career by self-training, "I was self-trained. I just trained as much as my body would handl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Army
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Mayne Smeeton
Mayne may refer to: People * Andrew Mayne, magician and filmmaker * Brent Mayne (born 1968), American Baseball catcher * Chris Mayne (born 1988), professional Australian rules footballer * Clarice Mayne (1886–1966), British music hall and variety theatre singer and performer * Cuthbert Mayne (1544–1577), English Roman Catholic priest and martyr * Edgar Mayne (1882–1961), Australian cricketer * Edith Mayne (born 1905), British freestyle swimmer * Edward Mayne (1756–1829), Irish judge * Ferdy Mayne (1916–1998), German-British actor * Frederick Allen Mayne III (born 1970), birth name of American singer ''Fred Durst'' * James O'Neil Mayne, Australian philanthropist * Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), British clergyman, translator, minor poet and dramatist * John Mayne (1759–1836), Scottish printer, journalist and poet * Kenny Mayne (born 1959), American sports journalist * Laurie Mayne (born 1942), Australian cricketer * Lonnie Mayne (1943–1978), American professional wrestler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Josepha Orange
Dame Claudia Josepha Orange (née Bell, born 17 April 1938) is a New Zealand historian best known for her 1987 book ''The Treaty of Waitangi'', which won 'Book of the Year' at the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1988. Since 2013 she has been the head of research at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, where she was previously the director of collections and research. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in recognition of her service to the humanities. Personal life Orange was born in Auckland in 1938. Her father, Monty Bell, was a fluent speaker of te reo Māori, knew Āpirana Ngata and joined the Department of Māori Affairs in Gisborne, so she grew up well aware of Māori issues."Claudia Orange: A clear voice on the Treaty" , Bridget Williams B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Morris
Joanne Robin Morris is a former New Zealand lawyer and law lecturer. She served as a member of the Waitangi Tribunal for 24 years, from 1989 to 2013. Biography Morris was a law lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington and was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 1989. During her career she served as chair of the Commission of Inquiry into Pornography, which reported to the government in 1989. In the same year, she was appointed as a foundation member of the Broadcasting Standards Authority and was reappointed a following for a following two terms. In 2003, she was appointed chair of the Broadcasting Standards Authority. She also chaired the Police Appointment Review Committee and was a member of the establishment board of the Legal Services Agency. In the 1993 New Year Honours, Morris was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for public services. Following her retirement from law, she opened a sewing shop in the suburb of Kilbirnie Kilbirnie ( Gae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Scientific And Industrial Research (New Zealand)
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) is a now-defunct government science agency in New Zealand, founded in 1926 and broken into Crown Research Institutes in 1992. Foundation DSIR was founded in 1926 by Ernest Marsden after calls from Ernest Rutherford for government to support education and research and on the back of the Imperial Economic Conference in London in October and November 1923, when various colonies discussed setting up such departments. It initially received funding from sources such as the Empire Marketing Board. The initial plans also included a new agricultural college, to be jointly founded by Auckland and Victoria University Colleges, Palmerston North was chosen as the site for this and it grew to become Massey University. Structure DSIR initially had five divisions: * Grasslands in Palmerston North * Plant Diseases in Auckland * Entomology, attached to the Cawthron Institute in Nelson * Soil Survey (later Soil Bureau) in Taita * Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Collins (physicist)
Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to: * Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician * Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and Gemini 10 crews It may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Michael Collins (English actor) (1922–1979), English television actor * Michael Collins (American author) (a.k.a. Dennis Lynds, 1924–2005), American mystery writer * Michael Collins (writer and broadcaster) (born 1961), British author, journalist and television presenter * Mike Collins (comics) (born 1961), British-born American comic book artist * Michael Collins (Irish author) (born 1964), Irish novelist * Mick Collins (born 1965), American musician * Michael Knost (a.k.a. Michael Earl Collins, born 1967), American horror fiction writer * Michael Collins (Irish actor) (fl. 1995–2015), Irish actor * Deathlok (a.k.a. Michael Collins), Marvel comics character Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Butler
Muriel Dorothy Butler (née Norgrove, 24 April 1925 – 20 September 2015) was a New Zealand children's book author, bookseller, memoirist and reading advocate. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Personal life Butler was born in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn on 24 April 1925, the daughter of William Victor Norgrove and his wife Emily Isobel Norgrove (née Brown). She was educated at Auckland Girls' Grammar School, before studying at Auckland University College, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1947. She became engaged to her future husband, Roy Edward Butler, in August 1945, and they were married in 1947. They went on to have eight children together, six daughters and two sons. Butler died on 20 September 2015 in Te Atatū Peninsula, Auckland. Work She founded the famed Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop in Auckland which remains a going concern, albeit under new ownership. A brief history of the bookshop's early years was reported in the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Fire Service
The New Zealand Fire Service ( mi, Whakaratonga Iwi, "Service to the People"; also known as the NZFS) was New Zealand's main firefighting body from 1 April 1976 until 1 July 2017 – at which point it was dissolved and incorporated into the new Fire and Emergency New Zealand. Legal Authority The NZFS was somewhat unusual, internationally, in that it had jurisdiction over the entire country with no division by region or city. It was the result of the New Zealand Fire Service Act (1975), which nationalised the various District-level brigades that had developed across the country. Responsibility The New Zealand Fire Service was predominantly configured as an Urban Fire & Rescue Service. The Fire Service Act placed responsibility on the NZFS for firefighting in gazetted Urban Fire Districts, totalling about 3% of New Zealand's land area but covering 85% of the country's population. The remainder of the land was covered by Rural Fire Authorities (RFAs) that acted under the Forest a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal New Zealand Navy
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN; mi, Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa, , Sea Warriors of New Zealand) is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of nine ships. The Navy had its origins in the Naval Defence Act 1913, and the subsequent purchase of the cruiser , which by 1921 had been moored in Auckland as a training ship. A slow buildup occurred during the Interwar period, and then perhaps the infant Navy's finest hour occurred soon after the beginning of World War II when fought alongside two other Royal Navy cruisers at the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939. History Pre–World War I The first recorded maritime combat activity in New Zealand occurred when Māori in war waka attacked Dutch explorer Abel Tasman off the northern tip of the South Island in December 1642. The New Zealand Navy did not exist as a separate military force until 1941. The association of the Royal Navy with New Zealand began with the arrival of Lieutenant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
