Mrs Noma Shepherd, ONZM, of Kawakawa, for services to the community
Noma Shepherd chaired the Bay of Islands Community Board and was Secretary and then Chair of the Kawakawa Domain Board. She was a key driver of the project to establish Te Hononga Hundertwasser Memorial Park building, a cultural community centre. She joined the Trust and later became Chair, overseeing the process of obtaining a site, development of a building design, and Memorandums of Understanding with stakeholders. She is President of the Bay of Islands Senior Citizens Club. She chairs the Kawakawa Memorial Museum Library Charitable Trust. She runs a monthly history club, hosts weekly computer classes, and has contributed to local history books. She was area coordinator for the annual Cancer Society Daffodil Day. Mrs Shepherd has served six four-year terms as President of the Taumarere Opua Women’s Institute.