Knight Bachelor

Sir Frank Wakefield Holmes (Attended King’s High School from 1937 to 1941)

In 1941 Frank was a School Prefect, the School Dux, a member of the First Rugby XV, a member of the School Athletics team and a member of the First Cricket XI.    He was winner of the Moller Cup as Sergeant of the best platoon in the Cadet Corps.

On leaving King’s Frank attended the University of Otago until his university study at Otago was interrupted by war.

In 1943 Frank was with the Air Force stationed for training in New Zealand. He served in the South West Pacific 1944 and 1945, first as a dive bomber pilot and then as a fighter pilot.

After the war he graduated with a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Otago before going on to lecture at Victoria University. Frank was the recipient of several awards, including the Carnegie and Fulbright Fellowships in the 1960s.

Frank taught at Victoria from 1952-67 as a lecturer and then as Macarthy Professor of Economics, returning from 1970-77 as a Professor of Money and Finance. He became an Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Policy Studies up until his death in 2011.

Frank was awarded two honorary doctorates, one in law from Otago University in 1997 and one in commerce by Victoria University in 2004.
Frank’ career saw him work advising several governments, both on domestic economic policy and foreign trade.
He became an economic adviser to the Royal Commission Monetary, Banking and Credit Systems in 1955, he later served as two terms on the Monetary and Economic Council, set up in 1961 by the Holyoake government. Frank was involved in debates on New Zealand’s trade policies, including agreements with Australia and concessions to New Zealand when Britain joined the European Economic Community, which became the European Union.
He was founder of the Institute of Policy Studies at Victoria University where he wrote a series of studies of trade relationships with senior officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Frank was made a justice of the peace in 1960.
Frank also worked extensively in the private sector, including as economics manager of Tasman Pulp and Paper Company and chairing the National Bank of New Zealand’s Southpac Finance subsidiary.
Frank was knighted in 1975 for services to economics and education.

Member of the British Empire MBE 

Edwin Neville Sims – of Dunedin. For services to engineering.

Attended King’s High School from 1937 to 1938

Edwin served in WW2 as a Private in the N.Z. Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers as part of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force

After the war he founded Sims Engineering at Port Chalmers. He became a director of the company. Sims Engineering built mainly tugs and small craft.  However, in 1984 Sims Engineering launched the 1,056-ton dredge New Era, still the largest powered vessel built in New Zealand

Sims Engineering closed in about 1990. Edwin died on the 4 Oct 1990 aged 66 years.

Queens Service Order for public service.

Stan (S.W.B) Duncan (At King’s High School from 1943 to 1945)

Formerly Chief Executive Officer of Gardner Motors he served as President of the New Zealand Employers federation, the Motor Trade Association, divisional chairman of the Southern Region of the National Party and the board of Air New Zealand. Stan has also been a long-time worker for education in Otago, spending time on the Logan Park High School Board, the Otago Polytechnic Council, the Dunedin College of Education Council and the Otago Regional Employment Access Council

Patrick Grant McKay (Grant) (At King’s High School from 1965 to 1968)

Additional, military division: Warrant Officer Patrick Grant McKay – Royal New Zealand Airforce in recognition of service within operations in the Persian Gulf Region.

Royal New Zealand Air Force General Service Training School

GSTS Staff RNZAF Base Woodbourne circa 1989
R1/89 Recruit Course – 9th of January 1989 to 23rd of March 1989
The following people contributed the education at GSTS
Support Flight
Warrant Officer Patrick G. (Piggy) Mckay
Sergeant Jimmy S. Porter
Corporal Peter (Doc) Tapsell
Corporal Nicky K. Gibbons

Hugh Campbell  Templeton (At King’s High School 1945 to 1947)

 Hugh was Head Prefect in 1947, CSM of B Company in the Military Cadets and a member of the rugby committee. At the Prize giving he was awarded a General Excellence Price in English, French, Latin and History. He was a member of the First Rugby Fifteen and the First Cricket Eleven.

Hugh Templeton was born in Wyndham, Southland, in 1929. He was educated at Gore High School, King’s High School, the University of Otago, and then as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University in 1952–53.

From 1954 to 1969 Hugh served with the New Zealand Department of External Affairs, first in London, and then in Wellington, before going as the last Deputy High Commissioner of Western Samoa to prepare specially for independence and then to New York to assist secure Samoa’s post-independence aid programmes, under Guy Powles. From 1965 to 1969 Hugh served in Wellington working on Asian and European and Defence affairs, before being elected to Parliament.

Hugh was elected as MP for Awarua in Southland in 1969 to 1972 From 1972–1975, he was executive assistant to the Leaders of the Opposition, Jack Marshall and then Robert Muldoon. He was re-elected to Parliament in 1975 for the Wellington electorate of Karori. The electorate was renamed Ohariu and was represented by Templeton until the 1984 election.

He was appointed to various positions in communications and economic portfolios during the Muldoon National Government of 1975–1984. Hugh was Minister of Revenue (1977–1982) and Minister of Trade and Industry (1981–1984) with responsibility for ANZCER (Australia – New Zealand Closer Economic Relations free trade agreement). He also worked with the Prime Minister on stimulating New Zealand’s onshore petroleum programme as part of Think Big. He wrote a book All Honourable Men: Inside the Muldoon Cabinet 1975–1984 on this period.

Hugh lost his seat with the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984.

Commander John Meldrum of the Royal New Zealand Navy was awarded the O.B. E. for his part in the Anzac ship project. Specifically mentioned was his dedication in administrating the engineering and commercial aspects of the project.  John was promoted to be acting Captain with effect from 15 May 1996, and Captain with seniority and effect from 20 May 1996.

O.N.Z.M.   Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit

Emeritus Professor Alexander Keith JEFFERY, of Dunedin. For services to orthopaedics.

(Attended Kings High School from 1948 to 1952)
At Kings Keith was a prefect and played rugby as a loose forward in the First XV. He was awarded a Blue for rugby in 1952 and gained Higher School Certificate and an Honourable mention at the end of year prize giving.  He also received a prize for being the most efficient gunner in the School’ Cadet force’s Artillery Platoon.

On leaving school Keith won a place at the Otago Medical School and graduated in 1958. He subsequently worked in Dunedin Hospital as a house surgeon. After two years, Keith had decided to specialise in orthopaedic surgery. In 1965, he went to the UK to undertake specialist training, very quickly becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1965. He held posts in Oswestry, Oxford, and Exeter. Back in New Zealand Keith performed one of the first hip replacement operations in New Zealand.

In 1968 he was appointed as specialist orthopaedic surgeon at Dunedin Hospital, a position he held until 2000. He gained his FRACS and in 1975 he completed his ChM (Otago). During 1972 he was an ABC Travelling Fellow travelling through North America. He revisited the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Fellow in 1976-77 and in 1989 was awarded the Gold Medal and guest lectureship at Oswestry.

In 1982, Keith became Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in Dunedin. He was a world authority on the structure and function of articular cartilage. With Mark Walton he created a well-respected research department which attracted post-graduate students. He also had a keen interest in the management of amputees and the science of prosthetics, and served on the Artificial Limb Board for many years.

He loved teaching, especially undergraduates, for whom his tutorials were superbly planned and illustrated. His bedside teaching was inspiring.

Keith became the 25th President of the NZOA in 1993. Keith was well known in British orthopaedics and in particular Oswestry, Oxford and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, where he spent a number of sabbaticals working on cartilage research. In 2007 he was presented with the NZOA President’s Award for services to the Association. In 2003 Keith became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Orthopaedic Surgery.

Ian Campbell Templeton (At King’s High School 1945 to 1946)

Ian is a veteran New Zealand political reporter who celebrated 50 years of reporting the New Zealand Parliament from the press gallery in 2007. He has written several books on politics. He was the only print journalist to get a weekly one-on-one briefing with Prime Minister Helen Clark.

He was educated at King’s High School, Dunedin, and completed an economics degree at the University of Otago. After university he was a general reporter for two years at the Otago Daily Times.

Templeton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1994 New Year Honours, a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2010 New Year Honours, both for services to journalism.

In May 2011 he was conferred an honorary doctorate by Massey University

Peter John Montgomery (Attended King’s High School from 1956 to 1960)

Peter was the Senior Athletics Champion in 1960. He won four events in three of which he established new records – 10.7 seconds in the 100yards, 23.4 seconds in the 220 yards and 16.1 seconds in the 120 yards hurdles.  Peter held the 220 yards record for 55 years.  He was awarded a School Blue for Athletics in 1959 and 1960. Earlier in his school career he was an Otago junior representative at both sprinting and rugby union.

In 1965, Montgomery moved to Auckland. As injuries began to curtail his sporting career, he took up sailing. It became an all-consuming passion. While he threw himself into Auckland’s sailing community and built up his knowledge of the sport, his days were spent working in, and later managing and owning, car dealerships.  In Auckland he met up with old King’s chum Bill McCarthy who talked Peter into becoming a fill in commentator for Radio New Zealand. He was soon covering many yachting and other sporting events.

Peter has broadcast thirteen America’s Cup regattas, ten Olympic Games and thirteen Whitbread Round the World/Volvo Ocean Races. He has been regularly invited to commentate at major regattas across the world, including The International Sailing Federation World Championships and key regattas on the World Match Racing Tour, including The Bermuda Gold Cup, The Swedish Match Cup and The Monsoon Cup Malaysia. ISAF also chose him to be the first Host / MC for the World Sailor of The Year and Sailing Hall of Fame ceremonies.

In addition to commentating and reporting on sailing regattas he has also broadcast many other sports including rowing and rugby. He is the “sideline eye” for the Radio Network “Radio Rugby Team” in Auckland, where his Driz-a-Bone raincoat became as recognised on the sideline as his microphone.

He was chosen to play the America’s Cup broadcaster in the 1992 movie Wind to lend authenticity to the racing scenes and is featured in the America’s Cup documentary film The Wind Gods. He also performs many public speaking engagements.

Peter is a Patron or Vice Patron of several yacht clubs, a trustee of the New Zealand International Yachting Trust and a member of the selection committees for The America’s Cup Hall of Fame and The Yachting New Zealand Sailor of the Year Award. He is a Life Member of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, Yachting New Zealand, The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and The New Zealand Sports Journalists Association

Peter has been honoured with many awards, including:

Sports Journalist of the Year

Sports Broadcaster of the Year

Communicator of the Year

Yachtsman of the Year – 1990, when the New Zealand Yachting Federation awarded their highest honour – The Bernard Ferguson Trophy.

The prestigious SPARC “Lifetime Contribution to Journalism through Sport” at The New Zealand Sports Journalists Association awards 2003.

In 2015 he presented an episode of series Descent from Disaster, on a tragic 1951 yacht race which saw ten die.

In 2021 he became only the third journalist or commentator chosen to be inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame.

Peter was awarded an MBE in the 1995 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Marie R Aubin – services to education and the community

(King’s High school Staff 1973 to 1987)

COMMANDER of the ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

John Herbert HESLOP, of Dunedin.  For services to medicine, sport and the community.

John Herbert Heslop CBE, FRCS, FRACS

(Attended King’s High School from 1938 to 1942)

John was a School Prefect, a Sergeant in the Cadet Corps and a General Excellence prize winner. He was senior athletics champion in 1942. He was a member of the First Rugby Fifteen and was a keen and capable cricketer, being a member of the First XI and being twice selected in 1942-43 for the Otago Brabin Shield team as a seam bowler and useful lower order batsman.

John served on the Old Boys committee in 1944 and 1945

John gained entry into the Otago Medical School in 1944, completing his MB ChB in 1949. He completed his house surgeon years in Dunedin and in 1952 he embarked on his surgical career when he became a resident surgical officer. John moved to England and commenced at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Ealing, London as a resident surgical officer. The following year John successfully completed the FRCS (England) examination and then shifted to the Middlesex Hospital, London where during 1956 he was the Leverhulme Research Fellow.  He returned to Dunedin where he took up the position of senior registrar and surgical tutor.

John’s career developed quickly as he completed a Master of Surgery and became a fellow of the RACS in 1958. In 1959 John made headlines when he was awarded the coveted Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Moynihan prize for surgical research on skin tumours. John took charge of the burns unit at Wakari Hospital in 1960 and served as president of the Australia and New Zealand Burns Association and as the New Zealand representative on the committee of the International Burn Society. He was appointed senior lecturer in surgery at Otago University in1962.  He was involved in the establishment of the New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine in 1963.

In 1978 John became Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and also, the same year, was appointed Associate Dean of postgraduate studies at the Medical School. John played a prominent role in the Cancer Society of New Zealand at both divisional and national level including terms as Divisional Chairman and National President. Between 1983 and 1987, he chaired the research advisory committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Cricket was John’s first and greatest sporting love and he contributed greatly to this game. He played senior cricket with the University Club when only a teenager. Returning from England in 1957, he continued to play senior cricket until 1960.

John’s greatest impact on cricket came not as a player but as administrator, starting with his appointment as the convener of selectors for the Otago Plunket Shield team in 1960, where perhaps his greatest claim to fame was in selecting future batting great Glen Turner, while he was still at school, for his first-class cricket debut. He served the Otago Cricket Association as a selector 1960-66, as president 1966-68 and was made a life member in 1986.

In the late 1960s John was appointed to the New Zealand Cricket Board of Control. In 1975 he was given his first prime administrative role as manager of the New Zealand team to contest the first one-day World Cup, held in England. He served as New Zealand team manager 10 years later, this time for a four-test tour of the West Indies. John was a member of the New Zealand Cricket Council for 12 years, being president 1987-89 and he was subsequently made a life member.

Arguably John’s most significant honour was received in December 1996 when he has awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours for services to medicine, sport and community.

Royal New Zealand Navy

Rear Admiral John Edwin Nugent WELCH (B16584), Royal New Zealand Navy, Chief of Naval Staff

Jack joined the Navy in 1959 serving overseas on several ships (including the HMNZS Otago) in the West Indies, the Far East and a Mururoa in 1973. He was appointed Chief of Naval Staff in 1994, and continued in the post until April 1977.

Colin Campbell Fraser (Attended King’s High School from 1945 to 1948).  In 1947 he gained a General Excellence Prize (in English, French, Latin, History and Chemistry) He was a Sergeant in the school’s military cadet unit.

On leaving school he attended the University of Otago where he studied Law. While at the University of Otago Studying Law, Colin was awarded the Law Society Book Prizes in Company Law and Bankruptcy, Trusts and Torts. He was president of the local Law Students association in 1954.

In 1955 he graduated with an LL.B. degree. He started his legal career with the firm of Ross and Dowling in Dunedin while still at University.  In 1956 he was admitted to a partnership with the Invercargill firm of Hanan, Arthur and Co. He remained with the firm in Invercargill until he was appointed to the District Court at Christchurch in 1980.

He was one of the first District Court Judges warranted to conduct jury trials when they were introduced to the lower jurisdiction in 1981. Colin was the South Island’s Executive judge in 1986 and 1987.  He was also the Chairman of the Invercargill District Prisons Board and President of the Southland District Law Society for three years.

In 1989 Colin created judicial history by becoming the first District Court Judge to be appointed to the High Court. He held this position from 1989 until his retirement in 1996.

In 1996 the Honorable Colin Campbell Fraser – of Christchurch; judge of the High Court 1989–1996 was awarded the CNZM

Queens Service Medal – for Services to the Community

Denis Ian Dove – of Oamaru. (At Kings High School 1957 – 1960)

In 1998 Dennis retired after nearly 40 years in the stock and station industry. After leaving King’s he worked as a clercjk for dalgety and Co., in Dunedin. He had stints in Central and West Otago. In 1963 he joined Stringer and Co. in Oamaru as a junior stock agent and a merchandise and seed traveler  – he worked for them until he retired. After five years as their sole representative in Waimate , he was in Oamaru for 25 years, initially as a stock auctioneer, but latterly selling real estate.

Dennis has been involved with many fundraising projects for North Otago community and welfare organisations. Assistant manager of Stringer and Co., a stock firm, he organised a march to save services at Oamaru hospital in 1992, in which more than 12,000 took part. He was chairman of the North Otago Community Recreation Centre for four years, and appeal publicity officer for the North Otago Child Cancer Holdaway House project from 1989-90. He was master of ceremonies for Dancing for Charity from 1978-96, whereby $50,000.00 was raised and distributed to local charities, and has been involved in North Otago swimming, both as a judge and steward.

Denis was the man who founded the penguin colony He was the first manager of the Colony and was passionate about the penguins and the monitoring. The success of the Colony was due to his hard work with a dedicated team who respected him greatly. He retired as manager after many years, but stayed involved with penguins by sharing his knowledge with visitors to Oamaru, as a tour guide for a local company.

Queens Service Order for public services

Malcolm J C Templeton ( Kings high School 1936 to 1940), Staff 1945.

1940 : Malcolm James Campbell Templeton

Malcolm James Campbell Templeton, came to the School from Gore High School during the second term of 1936, and has bad an excellent scholastic record during the whole of his five years at the School. He is a boy of exceptional literary ability and sound historical knowledge, and the school magazine, Wi Kingi, owes more to his guiding hand than to anyone else. He has been on the committee responsible for that school publication for four years, while for the last two years he has been Editor-in-chief. In the newly formed Ambulance Division of the School Cadet corps he has done excellent work.

Malcolm attended King’s High School, where he was dux in 1940. In the next four years he was a student at Otago University, graduating with an MA with first-class honours in Latin and English literature in 1944. Military service followed, after which Secretary of External Affairs Alister McIntosh recruited him to the fledgling Department of External Affairs in 1946. Malcolm spent the next five years in what he later described as ‘a longish apprenticeship’ before being posted as a third secretary in the New Zealand Embassy in Washington.

Malcolm’s talents were recognised early. His first task in the United States was to attend the San Francisco Conference on the Japanese peace settlement, which was preceded by the signing of the Pacific Security (ANZUS) Treaty.

In 1954 Malcolm joined the New Zealand permanent delegation at the United Nations in New York for three years.

Following a period in the department back in Wellington, during which he headed its Defence Division, Malcolm was posted to the New Zealand High Commission in London in 1962. In 1963 he attended the Imperial Defence College.

Returning to Wellington in 1967, Malcolm assumed the role of an assistant secretary in the department; during Jack Marshall’s brief term as prime minister in 1972 he was seconded to Marshall’s office as deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Department. This was followed by his first and only head of mission posting, going back to New York as permanent representative at the United Nations. In 1973-74, he was an influential adviser to Norman Kirk on human rights, Antarctica and apartheid.

Back in Wellington in 1978, Malcolm became deputy secretary of foreign affairs, a position he held until his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1984. During the latter stages of his career in the department, he was much involved in developing New Zealand position in and taking part in the negotiations on the law of the sea convention.

Malcolm was appointed a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for public services in 1997.

Malcolm made a Doctor of Literature at the Otago University in 2003 and was appointed a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for public services in 1997.

Warren Ernest Cooper, (Attended King’s High School from 1947 to 1948)

Warren was born in Dunedin in 1933. He received his education at Musselburgh School and King’s High School. He later moved to Queenstown after leaving school at 15. He worked as a retailer, a painting, decorating and signwriting contractor, and a motel manager. He then became a real estate agent and was a leading member of the Jaycees, being awarded with life membership

Warren was Mayor of Queenstown Borough from 1968 to 1975. As mayor Warren successfully lobbied the then Minister of Finance Robert Muldoon to allow the Queenstown Borough Council to sell land in the Queenstown Hill Commonage in order to fund new water and sewerage schemes.[4] He joined the National Party and was elected a member of the party’s dominion council in 1973.[6]

He was first elected to Parliament in the 1975 election as MP for Otago Central, defeating the newly elected Ian Quigley of the Labour Party. In the 1978 election, he successfully contested the replacement electorate Otago.

Just after the 1978 election, his ministerial career started. He was Minister of Tourism (1978–1981), Minister of Regional Development (1978–1981), Postmaster-General (1980–1981), and Minister of Broadcasting (1981). When Brian Talboys retired from Parliament in 1981, Warren was appointed to replace him as Minister of Foreign Affairs; he held this position until the government of Robert Muldoon was defeated in 1984. He got along well with the now Prime Minister Muldoon despite having differing views on policy, Warren describing Muldoon as a socialist while Muldoon thinking Warren the caucus’ chief private enterpriser (a label Warren embraced).

After the governments defeat he was retained on the frontbench by Muldoon and was designated Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Trade. He retained those portfolios for most of Jim McLay’s brief tenure as National leader (1984–86) before being dropped from Foreign Affairs by McLay’s successor Jim Bolger and instead given the Local Government, Regional Development and South Island Development portfolios. Following National’s defeat in 1987 he had another portfolio shift, retaining only Overseas Trade while also gaining Transport. In a reshuffle in early 1990 he swapped the Transport portfolio for Tourism.

Later, in the government of Jim Bolger, Warren served as Minister of Defence (1990–96), Minister of Local Government (1990-94) and Minister of Internal Affairs (1993–96). Warren remained in Parliament until the 1996 election, when he stepped aside in favour of Gavan Herlihy.

He transitioned back to local-body politics and was Mayor of Queenstown-Lakes from 1995 to 2001. Still an MP and minister at the time of his election as mayor there was speculation he might resign from cabinet or parliament altogether but stated he would not do so unless asked to by Bolger.

In 1977, Warren was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, and in 1990 he received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. In the 1997 New Year Honours, Warren was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for public services

Opening the batting for Otago in 1984–85 he scored 442 runs at 44.20, including his first century, 130 against Auckland, and he was asked to open the batting for New Zealand in the West Indies at a time when West Indies were at the height of their powers. Ken’s highest score for Otago was 226 not out against India in the 1989/90 season.

Ken’s highest first-class score of 317, scored playing for a New Zealand touring side against a D.B.Close XI at Scarborough in 1986, achieved several records for New Zealand cricket. it contained eight sixes and 45 boundary fours, crossing the boundary rope a record 53 times. The runs were scored in a day – the most runs scored in one day by a New Zealand batsman, and 199 of the runs were scored in one session between lunch and tea. The match was something of a festival occasion, with some elderly players in the fielding ranks, and Ken had not played with great distinction in the test matches. It is the highest innings in the history of the Scarborough Festival, as of 2015.[6]

Upon being dropped from the New Zealand team in 1995, Ken moved to South Africa, where he played first-class cricket for five seasons, first for Transvaal and then for Gauteng (which replaced Transvaal in 1994), before finally retiring, scoring a duck in his last game.

International career

Making his debut during New Zealand’s tour of the West Indies in 1984-85 at the age of 19, Ken played in all four Test matches. Facing the West Indian pace attack, he endured a difficult time, scoring 0, 0 (run out without facing a ball), 4 (an edge through the slips), 0, 2, 1 and 5 in the series. Ken described that by the time the fourth test arrived “I was devastated emotionally. I couldn’t handle the bombardment on the field and felt shell shocked off it”.

He was not selected for the tour of Australia in 1985–86, but after scoring 638 runs at 53.16 with three centuries in the Shell Trophy he returned to the Test team when Australia toured New Zealand early in 1986, this time in the middle order, scoring two fifties in the three Tests.

Ken was a steady feature of the side after his return. However, he had a habit of not converting fifties into centuries in Test cricket though he clearly had the ability to do so, as shown by his 35 first-class centuries. He captained New Zealand’s team for three years, with two Test wins in 18 attempts in what was a difficult tenure as New Zealand struggled to find a replacement for the retired Richard Hadlee and suffered the decline in power of their only world class batsman, Martin Crowe.

Arguably, Ken’s greatest success came in One Day Internationals where he won ten matches as captain and made his highest international score, with 108 in a losing cause against India. He was a member of the New Zealand side which reached the semi-finals of the 1992 World Cup, their 2nd equal best performance in the tournament’s history.

After cricket

In the 1997 New Year Honours, Ken was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket.

Ken published his autobiography, A Hell of a Way to Make a Living, in 1995. With Mike Crean he wrote a book for young cricketers, Ken’s Book of Cricket, in 1992.

After retirement from the playing side of the game, he coached the Irish national cricket team.

After coaching the Ireland national team for two years he followed his interest in horse racing, returning home to work as head bookmaker for the New Zealand TAB and then filled a similar role in Singapore. Back in South Africa he then worked as chief executive of racing broadcaster Tellytrack. Since 2013 (and as of 2014) he is general manager of the Waikato Racing Club. He left Waikato Racing Club to take up a similar role in New South Wales at the end of 2019.

He was also a cricket commentator for Sky Network Television

Laurie W Mains (At King’s high School 1960 to 1964)

Queen’s Service Medal (QSM) for Public services.

Charles Andrew Burnett (At king’s High School )1937-41 ),

After returning from war service with the Air Force, And)’ shifted northwards to buy a grocery in Ngongotaha in 1946, and has been a town crusader ever since. He was a member of the County Town, and its successor the County Borough Council for 15 years. He battled against chlorination in the water supply, for the re-establishment of a bank in the town, for the rerouting underground of the unsightly power lines through the town centre, and for the reopening of the local police station-when the latter was unsuccessful, he organised fundraising for a police car. A past president of the Ngongotaha Business Association. he recently helped to establish the Ngongotaha Community Association; He is past president patron. and life member of the Rotorua Tramping and Skiing Club a sponsor of the Rotorua Youth Trust, and an active member of the Rotorua Promotion Society, currently he is writing a history of the area.

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The Very Reverend J. S. (John) Murray ( 1943–47) of Raumati was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to the community. John was for many years the Presbyterian minister of St Andrew’s church in Wellington, and served a term as a liberal Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM)

 W. N. (Warwick) Larkins ( 1960-63) of Dunedin who was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to cricket. This recognises an involvement, both as player and administrator, for more than 40 years, including 25 years as president of the Albion club of which he was made a life-member in 1981. He toured England in 1978 as a scorer for the NZ cricket team, and unexpectedly made his international debut when he played in their one-day match versus Holland in Amsterdam. He was cricket field manager for TVNZ from 1993-96, and has served on the executive of the Otago Netball Association and the Otago Sports Trust. Warwick has been both secretary and president of re KHSOBA and is currently back on the committee.

Barry Vickerman Cleavin (At King’s High School 1953 to 1958)

Barry is a New Zealand fine art printmaker.

Barry was born in Dunedin in 1939. He moved to Christchurch in 1963, and studied at the University of Canterbury, where his lecturers included Rudi Gopas and Bill Sutton. He completed a Diploma of Fine Arts (Hons) in 1966.

He continued his education in Hawaii at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, before returning to the University of Canterbury, where he was senior lecturer in printmaking from 1978 to 1990. Barry returned to Dunedin following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, where he set up his studio on Otago Peninsula.

He has received numerous awards for his art, notably becoming the Fulbright Fellow at The Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque in 1983. He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Canterbury in 2005. He was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts, in the 2001 New Year Honours. Barry has represented New Zealand at various international print biennales, in Berlin, Krakow, Ljubljana, Paris, Sapporo, San Francisco, and Tokyo.

His work has long concentrated on etching, but in recent years has also included digital printmaking. His works are hallmarked by a wry surrealism and punning titles, using recurring motifs of animal skeletons, silhouetted horsemen, and shadow patterns. Many of his images make poignant political comments. These themes combined in the 1988 book A Series of Allegations or Taking Allegations Seriously, co-written with A. K. Grant and published by Hazard Press.

Rev. Dr P. E. (Paul) Oestreicher (At King’s High School from  1945 to 1949)

H. (Ces) Irwin (At King’s High School from 1937 to 40)

Ces was a leader in education at all levels, and in the care of small children. His own education at the University of Otago and at Dunedin Teacher’s College was interrupted by war service in Egypt, Italy, and with the interim occupational forces in Japan, but on his return to NZ he completed his BA, and an MA with honours in History. His first teaching job was a sole-charge position at Blacks ( Ophir ), before shifting to a model school attached to George Street Normal in Dunedin. Active in the NZ Educational Institute (NZEI) he was appointed principal of Wyndham District High-School, before joining the inspectorate in Otago, then district senior inspector in Nelson, before returning to Otago in the same role. In 1969 Ces was appointed principal of Dunedin Teachers’ Training College, and became a persistent advocate for university involvement in teacher education and for closer relations between the two institutions while maintaining their individuality and integrity: he was the “energising force” behind the establishment of the Bachelor of Education degree. Sitting on the national working party for early childhood education, he was also instrumental in bringing the Kindergarten College within the Teachers’ College, and extending the BEd degree to include early childhood education. He was a member of the university senate, the joint board of studies, and the Otago Polytechnic Council. When he retired in 1983, he told the ODT that “Children are the Think Big resource of our society: educated youngsters are our major natural resource;’ and continued working towards improving the life of young people through advocacy roles on the Child Protection Otago Trust, the NZ Life Education Trust, and the NZ Health Camps Board. His work was recognised by the awarding of the NZ Commemoration Medal in 1990, the NZ Order of Merit in 2001, and a Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Fellowship. Ces was a keen fly fisherman, a member of the Fortune Theatre Board, and a justice of the peace. He suffered personal tragedy in 1975 when involved in a car accident at Rakaia in which his wife Margaret was killed; he later married Isabell, whose husband J. R. (Ross) Sinclair (1947-50) had been killed at Dunrobin in a farming accident in 1965. Ces has been described as having a keen sense of humour, and very strong qualities of tolerance and acceptance; he was a man who made a difference, who was open-minded and not in the least judgemental, and who always made those he spoke to feel as if they mattered.

Member of the NZ Order of Merit

Graham Sinclair (At King’s High School from 1949 to 1953)

See Wall of Fame 2021

John Shotton PARKER, of Blenheim. For services to painting.

John was a School Prefect and a member of the First Rugby XV in 1958. He was member of camera club, the Bookshop Committee and the Rugby Football Committee.

On leaving school John spent from 1959 to 1964 at Lincoln College (now Lincoln University) where he graduated – Master of Agricultural Science with Honours in Agricultural Economics.  . John’s first step in what was to be a distinguished public service career of 39 years was as an in 1964 when he joined Department of Agriculture, Christchurch before moving to Wellington with Dept. Agriculture Economics Section where he worked on agricultural and trade policy.  John joined the Treasury in 1969 and was soon a member of the team advising ministers on New Zealand’s strategy for negotiations with the British and European governments over Britain’s entry to the Common Market (now the European Union).

In 1971 he was seconded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as First Secretary (Economic) at the New Zealand High Commission in London. He was there for five years and as part of the New Zealand negotiating team played a seminal role in helping to obtain the best possible continued access for New Zealand to the British market and ensuring that the provisions for New Zealand were implemented effectively.

Resuming his Treasury career in New Zealand and subsequently promoted to Assistant Secretary he spent a period setting up the new Corporate Services function and leading a revamp of the Treasury’s organisation and management systems as a response to serious staff turnover and morale problems.

Promoted further to Deputy Secretary, managing the Industries Branch, he had overall responsibility for policy advice and implementation in the areas of State-Owned Enterprises, agriculture, energy, transport, communication and natural resources. Later his responsibilities were extended to include management of the Government’s privatisation programme.

He was close to the heart of all the decision-making in State Owned Enterprises policy which saw a host of new “corps” come into being as modern, market-driven permutations of old public service departments.

He has described SOE policy as “an idea whose time had come”, and  is remembered from this period as “the quintessential public servant … very measured and sage”.

In 1992 John was appointed Deputy Secretary to the Treasury managing the Regulatory and Tax Policy Branch then in July 1994 he left the Treasury to become Secretary of Labour. As Secretary of Labour he was closely involved with the creation of Work and Income New Zealand, an amalgamation of the employment functions of the Labour Department and the Income Support arm of Social Welfare and Employment. During his time the Department of Labour also developed the Human Capability Framework that has become the foundation for the broad area of Government human resource policies.

From 1995 to 2003 he led the New Zealand delegation to the annual conference of the Interventional Labour Organisation. In 2003 and 2004 he was elected chairman of the ILO’s Committee on Human Resource Development.

John retired in to Kakanui in 2003.  His public service continued and he became a Member of Lincoln University Council where he became Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee from 2004 to 2012.

He became a committee member Friends of the Forrester Gallery, a committee member North Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club and was involved in restoring Clarks Mill in Maheno

In the 2004 Queens Birthday Honours List he became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit – CNZM ‘for public services.  He was also awarded the Lincoln University Bledisloe Medal.  The award, introduced by Governor-General Lord Bledisloe in 1930, is Lincoln University’s top medal for outstanding contributions by an alumnus advancing New Zealand’s interests.

Grahame Charles Sydney (At King’s High School from 1962 to 1966)

Grahame has become one of New Zealand’s most significant and enduring artists. His work spans over 4 decades and encompasses oils, watercolours, egg tempera, lithographs, etching and photography. Rarely exhibiting, Grahame’s works are held in private collections throughout the world and represented in the collections of New Zealand’s major galleries and museums. Only occasionally collaborating with dealers, he mainly paints for a private client list. Always a meticulously slow worker, he generally produces no more than six works a year.

Since 2003 he has lived and worked in a remote corner of Central Otago, close to his recurrent subject matter. His wife Fiona is an integral part of his practice and occasional model.

Grahame has travelled twice to Antarctica as guest of the New Zealand Government. Unable to use his usual media due to the extreme temperatures he turned to the camera, which resulted in a resurgence of his long-standing love of photography and the book ‘White Silence, Grahame Sydney’s Antarctica’ (2008).

Always a willing writer, Grahame is the author or significant contributor to several other books including: ‘Grahame Sydney Paintings: 1974 – 2014’, Grahame Sydney’s Central Otago’ (photographs, 2011) ‘Promised Land’ (2009), and the much loved ‘Timeless Land’ (1995 [now in its fifth reprint]).’

Queen’s Service Medal (QSM) for community service

John Lindon Rayner (Attended King’s High School from 1938 to 1941)

Lin passed School Certificate in 1940 and University Entrance in 1941. He was awarded a General Excellence prize at the 1941 Breakup.  Lin played for the First Fifteen Rugby team in 1941.

He received the Queens Service Medal in the 2005 New Year Honours for services to the community and in 2006 received an Otago Service to Sport Award. Lin was a Life Member of the former St Kilda Athletic Club now Ariki Athletic and Harrier Club. He guided Dick Taylor’s early career and also coached Max Smith to the New Zealand under 20-mile record of 4:01.15.
Lin was for a time publicity officer for the Otago Athletics Centre where he wrote Newspaper reports on various harrier and athletic events.

Lin was a director in the Dunedin investment Company RUSCO HOLDINGS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED. He at one stage owned 52% of the company’s shares.

Lin joined the Caledonian Society at the time of the Second World War and at various times filled the Offices of President, Vice President. Secretary and Treasurer With his background in Athletics Administration Lin was a key organiser in many of the major Athletics Meetings and Highland Games organised by the Caledonian Society during the 1960s 70s and 80s. A special occasion for him was the 100^th Centennial Sports Meeting held at the Caledonian Ground on February 2^nd. In recent years Lin still maintained a keen interest in the affairs of the Caledonian Society where he had become Patron.

Lin passed away on the 27.7.2016

Ian F Farrant (At King’s High School 1955 – 1959)

Member of the Order of New Zealand – for Services to the Department of Corrections

Warwick F Duell  (At King’s High School 1958 – 1963)

Member of the Order of New Zealand – for Services to Rugby and the Community

W J (Bill) Townsend (At King’s High School 1954 – 1957)

Queen’s Service Medal – for Services to the New Zealand Police

E L (Lox) Kellas (At King’s High School 1960 – 1966)

Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for public services.

Graham Charles Fortune (King’s High School 1955 to 1959)

Graham was Educated at King’s High School, Dunedin from 1955 to 1959. He gained School Certificate in 1957 and studied science subjects in 1958 and 1959. University Entrance was achieved in 1958.  While at King’s he became a member of the Caversham Harrier club where he enjoyed running around the countryside on Saturdays with the ‘colts pack’.

He went on to study chemistry and geology at the University of Otago, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1962 and a Master of Science in 1963.

After leaving university, Graham worked as a journalist for four years on the Dunedin Evening Star. In April 1964 he joined the Department of External Affairs. Initially he was in the South Pacific and Antarctic Affairs Division, and involved with administration of New Zealand’s science and exploration programme in the Ross Dependency and the development of Scott Base. He also gained a lifelong love of Antarctica, visiting several times.

He then had a number of overseas postings, including to the Cook Islands in 1965, five years in Ottawa, and three years in Papua New Guinea which gained its independence while he was in the country.

After a secondment to the State Services Commission from 1977 to 1980, he was a senior administrator in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for six years before being appointed the deputy secretary of Foreign Affairs From 1987 to 1990 Inside Foreign Affairs, he left a mark by advocating for an expanded New Zealand role in the Pacific from the 1970s, and by helping to modernise the ministry from the 1980s onwards.

He served as New Zealand’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, In the late 1980s, Graham was New Zealand’s permanent representative to the UN at Geneva. As well as working on the Uruguay round of world trade talks, he was charged with representing New Zealand’s bold new position on nuclear disarmament. That stance put the country at odds with major allies, as well as many other countries, and the task was a fraught one.

He was also High Commissioner to Australia from 1994 to 1999.

Graham was as Secretary of Defence from 1999 until his retirement in 2006. The post also had its challenges; he was in charge when New Zealand scrapped its air force combat wing, and when it first contributed to the US-led war in Afghanistan.

He subsequently served as a board member of Antarctica New Zealand and undertook various consultancy roles for the New Zealand government in the areas of policy and management.

Graham was a keen runner who represented New Zealand in orienteering. He was an orienteering stalwart for decades, including being Vice President of the New Zealand Orienteering Federation in 2007 and 2008.  He was a member of the World Cup 2013 steering group, and was one of the earliest members of Wellington Orienteering Club. His involvement covered all aspects of orienteering and he was an inspiration to many.

Graham had an interest in the arts and was a keen supporter of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.

In the 2007 New Year Honours, Graham was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for public services

A.J. (John) Campbell ( At King’s high school from 1952 to 1956)

John attended Teachers’ College before being called up for compulsory military training in 1957 and became a Territorial, before enlisting in the regular army, receiving a commission, then being posted to Vietnam in 1969. He spent almost a decade with the regular force. Upon leaving the regulars in 1979 he re-joined the Territorials taking command of the 3rd Field Ambulance.

That year he became chief administration officer with the Otago Hospital Board before moving into the private sector. In 1982 he joined Command Services Corp being managing director from 1983 to 1985. He retired as a Territorial soldier in 1984 and from 1985 to 1990 was group managing director for Australasia and Asia in the large company ADT Ltd. Between 1992 and 1995 he was owner and director of another substantial firm Temp New Zealand Ltd.

John was made the first honorary colonel of the Royal New Zealand Logistics Regt, colonel commandant of the Royal New Zealand Ordinance Corps, appointed for a 5 year term as a trustee on the National Army Museum board of governors, and the New Zealand Patriotic Funds Board management committee.

During 32 years of service to the RSA, and between 2001 to 2007 he was Dunedin president, Otago-Southland president and RNZRSA national president. After retirement he served the association as the lay member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Veterans’ Health. In Dunedin he made significant contributions at Montecillo Veterans’ Home and Hospital on the management board, a trustee, and its restructuring.

He was a dedicated champion of war veterans’ rights, actively helping to achieve national milestones such as the return of the Unknown Warrior in 2004, the installation of the Year of the Veteran in 2006, and the Government’s public apology to Vietnam veterans.

In 2008 he was made an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to returned services personnel, and in 2011 received the RNZRSA Badge of Gold, its highest honour for significant service

Murray James Boyd Deaker (At King’s  High School 1958 – 1962)

Murray is, of course, well-known nationally for his books and radio and television work, during which he often mentions his old school.

Mr John (Hone) Vivian KOUKA, of Paekakariki.

Emeritus Professor G. L. (Graham) Hill ( 1953-57)

Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of Auckland,

Graham Hill, died in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 28 February after a
prolonged illness.
It was in Dunedin at the University of Otago where Graham
completed his early medical education and where, as a trainee
surgeon in 1968, he met Francis (Franny) Moore. Dr Moore was the
inspiration behind Graham’s decision to pursue an academic
surgical career. After a period as a missionary surgeon in
Indonesia, Graham spent a year in John Goligher’s world-leading
Department of Surgery at the General Infirmary at Leeds,
renowned for its expertise in colorectal surgery. He returned to
the University of Leeds as a Reader in Surgery after 2 years with
Stanley Dudrick in Houston, and it was at Leeds where he realized
the potential of the neutron activation technique for assessing
body protein metabolism in illness. In 1980, he took up the Chair
in Surgery at the University of Auckland and set about establishing
a unique facility capable of measuring the detailed body
composition of critically ill patients.
Graham’s first published paper in The Lancet (1967) set the
standard for more than 200 published papers and 35 book
chapters to follow. With these, and a splendid monograph,
‘Disorders of Nutrition and Metabolism in Clinical Surgery’, he
made significant contributions to our understanding of surgical
nutrition and metabolism.
He facilitated the training of numerous surgical registrars who
were privileged to observe his outstanding surgical skills. More than
30 full-time research fellows came under Graham’s tutelage inspired
by a genuine and infectious enthusiasm for research and his
penetrating insights in the area of surgical metabolism. Graham’s
lectures, whether to an undergraduate class or to an international
forum, were models of clarity and lucidity, and will be remembered
by former students and professionals alike. Graham’s love of and
commitment to research led to significant innovations in colorectal
surgery. Establishing the first colorectal unit in New Zealand, he
delivered a national service for patients with complex colorectal
disease. His patients remember the gentle and reassuring bedside
manner that made them feel important and special.
The recipient of numerous international awards and distinguished visiting professorships,
Graham served on the Editorial Boards of many surgical and clinical nutrition journals. Honoured
as both the ASPEN Jonathan E. Rhoads lecturer (in 1992) and the
ESPEN Sir David Cuthbertson lecturer (in 1994) was a rare
distinction shared only by Franny Moore and four others from North America.

Hon H. C. (Hugh) Templeton QSO (1945-47) was awarded an honorary Order of Australia for service to Australia-New Zealand economic relations, particularly through the establishment of ANZCERTA (Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement). The Order of Australia is that country’s highest honour,

Queens Service Medal (QSM)  For services to broadcasting

Lyndsay Rackley (At Kings High School 1958-1959)

Mr Lyndsay Rackley has had a long involvement in the radio broadcasting industry since the early 1960s.
Mr Rackley began by joining the Otago Radio Association and working as a volunteer announcer on Radio Dunedin (previously 4XD). He began his professional career with Dunedin station 4XO, which was the first commercial radio station in the South Island commencing in November 1971. For decades he has continued to work closely with the Otago Radio Association and for the past 34 years has arranged for the volunteer announcers to provide their programmes during the Association’s timeslots on Radio Dunedin. He continued to work as an afternoon announcer until 2015. Mr Rackley has been voluntary Secretary of the Otago Radio Association since 1985 and voluntary announcer since 2015.

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2020

Queens Service Medal (QSM) – for services to the community and sport

Norman Rodney Crawshaw  (King’s High School 1955 – 1957)

Norman came to King’s as a “Train Boy” in the fifth form, after having immigrated to NZ from Britain with his family, and having spent a year at Mosgiel District High School. Three years later he moved on to the University of Otago (O.U.), graduating with a BA in 1961 and a MA in history in 1962. He then qualified as  a schoolteacher and taught at secondary schools in Hauraki and Taranaki before being appointed as Deputy Principal of Buller High School at Westport in 1975. He resigned from that position in 1995, after becoming tired of being in the crossfire of a bitter dispute between the Principal and the Board. After that he did a lot of relieving at local primary schools before becoming head of Westmount School in Westport, one of a chain of Brethren schools spread throughout NZ which were officially one school but which operated independently: Campus Director was his official title. Norman has been a community volunteer for more than 50 years.Norman has held various positions within the Buller Cricket Association for the past 55 years. He has served as an organiser, coach, umpire, statistician, secretary and historian. He has written two books detailing the history of cricket in the area, organised two jubilees and various tournaments over the years. Between 1976 and 2015 he variously held the roles of chairman, treasurer, secretary, coach, referee and lecturer for the Buller Rugby Referees Association. He was also a national rugby referee assessor. Outside of sport, he has been Secretary/Treasurer of Buller Grey Power since 2013. He has been Buller Delegate to the Grey Power New Zealand National AGM from 2015 to 2019 and previously at Tasman zone meetings from 2013. He has fundraised for Buller Grey Power and increased membership by 150 percent, helping the organisation recover from near insolvency. Norman has also served as secretary of Buller Citizens Advice Bureau and the Coaltown Museum Trust, as well as a member of the Westport Returned and Services Association’s Scholarship Award Committee.

Queens Service Medal (QSM) – Services to Sport and Education

J. L. (Stuart) Thorne (At King’s High School from1960 to 1964)

Stuart initially worked for the Dept of Lands & Survey, before starting a 40-year career with the Dept of Conservation (DoC) as a ranger in Mt Cook National Park prior to shifting to Wanaka and the Mt Aspiring National Park. There he helped eradicate Lagarosiphon major (lakeweed) from Lake Wanaka, and helped reintroduce buff weka to the islands in the lake, and the South Island robin to the West Matukituki valley. For years Stuart was a volunteer with the Matukituki Charitable Trust and DoC trapping and monitoring programmes, and for many summers was (and still is) a hut warden in the national park. For 30 years he has been a search & rescue police advisor in the Wanaka area, being involved in more than 150 missions. He was instrumental in establishing the Upper Clutha Tramping Club, and has volunteered for Tekano which replants native trees in the area. He was a member of the NZ Mountain Safety Council for 29 years, including a term as chairman; president of the Wanaka Jaycees; secretary of the Wanaka Lions Club; and group leader of the Wanaka Venturer Scouts.

Expeditions to Antarctica also ranked highly with the first of eight taken in 1990. At one time he spent three weeks on top of Mt Erebus in minus 40 degree temperatures.

While “thrilled” to receive the award, Stuart stressed that all his good outcomes were the result of team effort.

New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health

David Ross Black (Ross) (Attended King’s High School from 1961 to 1965)

In 1965 Ross was a school Prefect, a Leading Cadet in school Sea Cadet Unit and President of Camera Club.

On leaving school Ross attended the University of Otago where he graduated with a Batchelor of Commerce Degree majoring in Marketing, Accounting and Business.

Ross, who started his business life with an outdoor leisure company Sunshine Leisure Products Ltd where he was a Joint Founding Partner (1977 – 1993). The business manufactured and imported camping & outdoor leisure equipment with well-known brands including Sunshine Leisure, Great Outdoors, and Fairydown.

He moved on to become an independent company director or chairman of a variety of companies.

He was a Director of the Southland Dairy Cooperative Ltd (1993 –1998), the Canterbury District Health Board / Canterbury Health Ltd / Healthlink South Ltd (1996 – 2001), Port Otago Limited (1994 – 2015), Farra Engineering Limited (1989 – 2015) and Timberlands West Coast Ltd (2002 – 2008)

He has also been Chairman of the Otago District Health Board / Healthcare Otago Ltd (1998 – 2001), Clough Holdings Ltd (2001 – 2012) and Chairman and Trustee of the Healthcare Otago Charitable Trust (999 – 2014).

Ross founded the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust and was chairman from 1998 to 2019, spearheading a $3.5M fundraising drive for a dedicated rescue helicopter in the Otago area. Ross said “I’ve had some amazing association with some amazing companies and people, but without a doubt, the most rewarding and dearest to my heart has been the rescue helicopter trust.”

Queen’s Service Medal for services to sport and the community

Paul Eric Tyson (Attended King’s High School from 1968 to 1969)

Paul was a member of the First Rugby XV and was part of the stage crew in school production “Hobsons Choice or Nothing”

In 1970 Paul attended the Dunedin Teachers College.

Since then, he has taught for 42 years in Whanganui, Southland and Dunedin. He spent 17 years at Kaikorai Valley College being home-room teacher and the teacher in charge of the home-room department. He has been on the senior management team of the college. He retired from Kaikorai Valley College in 2014.

He also has a very long association with the New Zealand Educational Institute.

Paul has been involved in sports administration as a volunteer coach, manager, event official, organiser, and support worker.

He has managed local and regional after-school activities, senior track and field athletics, and the South Island Colgate Games.

He also acted as the travelling assistant coach and manager for New Zealand athletes in the international Pacific Games.

Paul has been president of the New Zealand Children’s Athletics Association and Athletics Otago, and was involved with Junior Chamber International New Zealand.

He is also a highly valued rugby union referee, referee coach and mentor in Otago, across all club grades.

Paul has been a Dunedin South Lions Club board member for 20 years, secretary since 2014, and was president in 2004 and 2005.

He was recently made a life member of the New Zealand Children’s Athletics Association and has been heavily involved in the Otago Rugby Referees’ Association.

Paul is a life member of Otago Children’s Athletics, New Zealand Children’s Athletics, and Athletics Otago.

John Tyson Bezett (attended King’s High School from1958 to 1959)

John recently became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sport and recreation.

John was a keen rugby player while playing in the junior grades at school. He continued this passion with the Green Island Rugby Club on leaving school.  Transport to school for John along with a number of King’s boys was on the train from Mosgiel to Dunedin train. He would board the train at Green Island Station and disembark at the Caversham Station. He had a cheerful, outgoing disposition and got on pretty well with train boys.  Although John left school at an early age, he has continued to learn new skills and has become a successful businessman and has served the community well as a competent City Councillor.  He has shown great vision in the development of the Master Games and a wide range of city projects.

John trained as a jeweller and watchmaker with a local firm. He started his own shop after a while and eventually in 1979 set up and incorporated the company J T Bezett Jewellers and watchmakers Limited.

John was elected to the Dunedin City Council in 1986 and remained on the Council until 2016.  He was Chair of the Dunedin City Council Economic Development Committee, involved in the upgrade of Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin Town Hall and Dunedin Centre. He worked to modernise Otago City’s water and wastewater systems and in the build of Forsyth Barr Stadium. He has been an advocate of the St Clair Sea Wall Construction and the return of the St Clair Hot Water Salt Pools. He was instrumental in getting Basketball and almost all the other sports using the Dunedin Stadium to relocate to the Edgar Centre and for Ice Sports to take over the Dunedin Stadium. John said his election success over the years was a result of portraying himself as ”someone with basic common sense, no nonsense; I mean there’s no bullshit with me.”

John became the Chairman of the New Zealand Maste for rs Games in 1993, a year after it was launched, and stepped down from this role in 2021. The Games are New Zealand’s largest sporting event, involving approximately 5,000 competitors and contributing $3-5 million to the economy each year. He received a Life Award in 2014 from the New Zealand Masters Games for his contributions.

John remains active on a daily basis. He bikes to work, swims regularly and likes to run. At the games he competed in the triathlon, swimming and swam in a team in the half ironman.

Queen’s Service Medal for services for outdoor recreation

Antony Mark Pettinger (Attended King’s High School from 1982 to 1985)

Four terms and nearly 15 years as president of the Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club (OTMC) has earned Antony Pettinger a Queen’s Service Medal for his services to outdoor recreation. Antony has been involved with the OTMC for more than 30 years.

After joining the OTMC, the oldest tramping club in the South Island, in 1985 he became membership secretary of the club’s committee in 1986 and has since held a multitude of roles including secretary, chief guide and club president.

He played a key role in the club’s ongoing success, organising and leading 139 trips in 37 years.

An accomplishment Antony was most proud of was being course director for the club’s bushcraft courses for 22 years, teaching novice trampers river crossing techniques, clothing and gear advice, map and navigational skills and reading weather conditions.

Antony was a member of the OTMC’s Land Search and Rescue callout list for 20 years and is organising the club’s centenary celebrations taking place this year.

He was leading the creation of a new tramping track to a lookout point on Pineapple Point in Dunedin