In the Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours 2002, I was honoured with the award of Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM), "for services to amateur radio".
The full list of honours can be viewed at: http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/index.asp
The Governor-General of New Zealand, Dame Silvia Cartwright, is here (almost obscured) pinning the medal for Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit to my lapel.
Photograph: Donald Johnson ZL2GA
Photography
by Woolf
After the ceremony, with my wife Marjory and our two daughters, Linda (left) and Heather.
Photograph: Donald Johnson ZL2GA
... and with our son Donald ...
Photography by Woolf
Same picture - for enlargement
The announcement was made on the morning of Queen's Birthday 2002 after the NZART Conference at Nelson had just concluded its week-end events. NZART Council was meeting on that morning. Here is the NZART web page recording that time.
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