CNZM To be Companions Ms Robyn Rangihuia Bargh, of Wellington.
For services to Māori language and publishing. Robyn is the Managing Director of, and oversees, the HUIA Māori language publishing programme, with a long-standing interest in education through her work as a teacher, an educational researcher and as a policy analyst.
Professor Margaret Anne Brimble, MNZM, of Auckland.
For services to science. Margaret Brimble holds the Chair of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Auckland, is past-President of the International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry, Chair of the Physical Sciences Panel of the NZ Marsden Fund and a Principal Investigator in the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery.
Mrs Diane Foreman, of Auckland.
For services to business. Diane is CEO of the Emerald Group, an investment company with interests in healthcare in New Zealand, manufacturing in New Zealand and the United States, a boutique hotel on Auckland's North Shore and property development and investment.
Her business empire also includes Emerald Foods, which won an NZTE International Business Award for companies that turnover between $10 million and $50 million.
The Honourable Frances Helen Wilde, QSO, JP, of Wellington.
For services to local body affairs and the community. Frances is a New Zealand politician, and former Wellington Labour MP, Minister of Tourism and the 31st Mayor of Wellington. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Wellington.
Ms Eseta Fifita Finau, of Auckland.
For services to health and the Pacific community.
Eseta Finau has spent much of her working life improving nursing services for Pacific people, especially Auckland's 40,000 strong Tongan community. She is also a spokesperson, President of the Tongan Nurses Association of New Zealand and helped ensure the success of Langimalie, New Zealand's first ethnic-specific health service.
Mrs Wendy Faye Hawkings, QSM, JP, of Warkworth. For services to health.
Wendy Hawkings established the Rodney North Harbour Health Trust in her Warkworth home in 1977. She has served on it for 33 years and is its chief executive officer.
Mrs Sylvia Margarite Piera McArthur, of Wellington. For services to the Arts.
Piera worked and lived for many years in Paris and later, while painting in Moscow, became the first New Zealander to have a solo show at the New Tretiakov Gallery in Russia.
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