Ian Symonds
Ian Symonds, Waikanae, received the Insignia of a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the community. He was a member and former chairman of the Scots College Board of Governors and is a member of the Scots College Foundation. He has also been on the Queen Margaret College's Board of Governors and was a representative on the Independent Schools Council. He was a New Zealand representative on the International Medical Informatics Association Executive for 30 years. He has also been active in his services as a Justice of the Peace. Mr Symonds has been the president of the Wellington Justices of the Peace Association and more recently, he has acted as a visiting justice to prisons and held the position of relief coroner.