Miss Susan Price, of Wellington, ONZM for services to literature and philanthropy
Susan Price is an historian, researcher, children’s author, archivist and book collector. She has donated her collection of 25,000 children’s books to the National Library of New Zealand and donated Chevening, a restored block of flats built in 1929, to Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. She established the Susan Price Scholarship, awarded biannually to a Victoria University of Wellington postgraduate student. She has donated $20,000 to writer Kate De Goldi to research children’s literature and has gifted thousands of books to children around the country. She selected books for the youth section of the Kippenberger Library at the Queen Elizabeth II Army Museum in Waiouru. She has compiled historical records of the Wellington suburbs of Brooklyn and Kelburn. Miss Price was a trustee of the Randell Cottage Writers’ Trust.