6 Jun 2023

Willis:National would keep King's Birthday honours

From First Up, 5:50 am on 6 June 2023

Over 180 New Zealanders plus Queen Camilla received Kings Birthday and Coronation honours yesterday. Queen Camilla was awarded the Order of New Zealand with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins acknowledging her for her interest in NZ charities, her support for migrant women, new mothers and literacy programmes. New Zealand has four new dames..one was former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern for services to New Zealand during some of our most challenging times including the 2019 mosque attacks, the Whakaari White Island explosion and the pandemic. Nathan Rarere asked National's deputy leader Nicola Willis if she thinks it was well well-deserved.