Patricia Cunniffe, Whanganui, MNZM, for services to the community
Mrs Patricia Cunniffe has served on a variety of standards boards and working parties since the early 1970s, has been Managing Director of Joll Cunniffe Developments, an ergonomics consultancy company, since 1994, and is a trustee of the New Zealand Opera School. She initiated the New Zealand Disability Information Bureau and was the foundation President. In the 1970s she founded the New Zealand Council of Elders Charitable Trust. Many of the roles she has taken on have been voluntary. She has been a member of the Electricity Supply Industry Public Safety Working Party, and the PowerSafe and EnergySafe working parties. She has been a member of the New Zealand Ethics Committee and the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists. She is a member of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs Consumer Representative Network. As well as being a trustee of the New Zealand Opera School, Mrs Cunniffe is the secretary and major fundraiser for the Wanganui Opera Week Committee.