New Year Honours: Members of the Order of New Zealand

** The New Year Honours are the nation's way of thanking the men and women whose efforts make New Zealand a better place to live. **

* Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, DBE

* Sonja Margaret Loveday Davies, JP

* Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, KBE

* June Daphne, Lady Blundell, QSO

* Dame Miriam Patricia Dell, DBE, JP

* Margaret May Mahy

* The Hon Mrs Tini Whetu Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan

* Sir Roy Allan McKenzie, KBE

* Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, DBE, AC

* Sir (Frederick) Miles Warren, KBE

* Sir James Muir Cameron Fletcher

* Dr Ivan Lichter

* The Rt Hon James Brendan Bolger

* Kenneth George Douglas

* Dr Clifford Hamilton Whiting

* The Rt Hon Michael Kenneth Moore

* His Eminence Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams

* Professor Alan Graham MacDiarmid

* The Rt Hon David Russell Lange, CH

* The Rt Hon Jonathan Lucas Hunt