Reverend Alofa Ta’ase Lale, of Dunedin, QSM, for services to the community
Reverend Alofa Ta’ase Lale is Associate Minister at First Church of Otago. She serves on the Dunedin Samoan Minister’s Council. She is a Trustee on the Otago Community Trust Board and a member of the Otago Polytechnic External Pacific Advisory Group and the Kaitiaki group of the Ōtepoti Community Builders Network. She supports numerous Pacific community initiatives and events. She is Mission Coordinator at Mercy Hospital, Dunedin. She established the Mercy Centre of Learning, where Māori and Pacific students from Dunedin high schools receive weekly tutoring from university students. Reverend Lale is the immediate past National President of PACIFICA Inc.