Kahu Hohaia
Kahu Hohaia, of Te Kuiti, received the Queen’s Service Medal, for services to conservation, on 2 April 2008. Mrs Kahu, who is pictured after the ceremony with the Governor-General and Mrs Susan Satyanand and friends and family, has been a leader of a project to rebuild the sand dune on the Wahamahanga Reserve and has overseen the planting of some 80,000 plants.