The 1993 Special Honours in New Zealand was a Special Honours Lists, dated 6 February 1993 and marking

Waitangi Day Waitangi Day ( mi, Te Rā o Waitangi), the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial signing – on 6 February 1840 – of the Treaty of Waitangi, which is regarded as the founding document of the nation. The first Wait ...

and the centennial of women's suffrage in New Zealand, in which three women were appointed to the

Order of New Zealand The Order of New Zealand is the highest honour in the New Zealand royal honours system, created "to recognise outstanding service to the Crown and people of New Zealand in a civil or military capacity". It was instituted by royal warrant on 6 F ...

Order of New Zealand (ONZ)

;Ordinary member * Dame Miriam Patricia Dell – of Ōtaki. *

Margaret Mahy Margaret Mahy (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growi ...

– of

Governors Bay Governors Bay is a small town in Canterbury, New Zealand. Geography The settlement of Governors Bay is located on Banks Peninsula near the head of Lyttelton Harbour. It is connected via Governors Bay Road to Lyttelton, via Dyers Pass Road ove ...

. * The Honourable Tini Whetu Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan – Member of Parliament for

Southern Maori Southern Maori was one of New Zealand's four original parliamentary Māori electorates established in 1868, along with Eastern Maori, Western Maori and Eastern Maori. In 1996, with the introduction of MMP, the Maori electorates were updated, an ...

since 1967. File:Miriam Dell ONZ 2009 (cropped).jpg, Dame Miriam Dell File:Margaret Mahy at the Kaiapoi Club, 27 July 2011, smiling (digitally altered).jpg, Margaret Mahy File:Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan.jpg, Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan

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