Tupou Tamata-Manapori

Tupou Tamata-Manapori, of Manukau, received the Queen's Service Medal at an investiture ceremony on 2 April 2009 for services to the Pacific Islands community.  She has been involved in the Cook Islands community in many capacities for more than 25 years.  She has been a teacher of Cook Island Maori for all of this time and taught at Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate. She is the Ai Metua Cook Islands coordinator of the ‘Mind Your Language'; the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs Cook Island Maori language project.  Mrs Tamata-Manapori was a Manukau city councillor.  She is a founding member of the Manukau City Council Pacific Advisory Council.