New Year Honours

Playwright and dance theatre leader Jan Bolwell says her Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit award has given a welcome boost to the public profile of people in the arts.

There might have been no truffle industry in the southern hemisphere without Dunedin researcher Ian Hall.

Prof Peter Crampton has been honoured after his term as University of Otago pro-vice-chancellor of health sciences came to a close, but his working life is very far from finished.

He will not be arising Sir Richie today. Instead, the double-World Cup-winning former All Black captain has been made a member of the country's most honoured group.

The full list of the New Year Honours List for 2016. 

The Otago and Southland New Year Honours 2016 recipients.

Ask Prof Murray Brennan about an esteemed medical career that has now been honoured with a knighthood and luck is a recurring theme.

OFFICER OF THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT

THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT

MEMBER FOR THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT

An architect, a Pike River survivor and an unnamed warrior are among the New Zealanders winning accolades in the New Year Honours list.

Every time Ivan Vicelich retires from the All Whites, something great happens for New Zealand football.