Story: Royal honours system

More links and websites

• New Zealand honours

  This section of the website of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet provides information about the Honours Secretariat and New Zealand’s honours system.

• New Zealand Royal Honours

  This page on the governor-general’s website outlines New Zealand’s honours system.

More suggestions and sources

• O’Shea, Phillip P., ed. Honours, titles, styles and precedence in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1977.

• O’Shea, Phillip P., ed. Honours, titles, styles and precedence in New Zealand: supplement to 1977. Wellington: Government Printer, 1980.

• Taylor, Alister, and Deborah Coddington, eds. Honoured by the queen: New Zealand: recipients of honours 1953–1993, and royal appointments to the Privy Council, as queen’s counsel and as justices of the peace. Auckland: New Zealand Who’s Who Aotearoa, 1994.

• Taylor, Alister. The New Zealand roll of honour: New Zealanders who have served their country in peace and war. Auckland: Roll of Honour Publications, 1998.

• The New Zealand royal honours system: report of the Prime Minister’s Honours Advisory Committee. Wellington: Prime Minister’s Honours Advisory Committee 1995.