Mrs Teremoana Yala, MNZM, of Porirua, for services to the Cook Islands community
Teremoana Yala helped purchase a church building, helped revive the Cook Islands Manawatu Association, and started groups for budgeting, cooking and driver licensing.
She started a weekly Tivaevae group for Cook Islands women. She has been member of Palmerston North City Council’s committee overseeing Highbury Community Hall.
She helped establish a World War One Pacific war memorial. She is member of the Cook Islands Translation Panel and is involved with Lift Education.
She was Assistant General Secretary of the 43rd Diocese South Pacific District Council of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World and Cook Islands Commissioner of Girls’ Brigade. Mrs Yala was Cook Islands High Commissioner to New Zealand.