Molesworth manager’s wife gets Q.S.M.

Press, 30 December 1978, Page 3

Molesworth manager’s wife gets Q.S.M.

The wife of the manager of Molesworth station, Mrs! Rachel Chisholm, has been awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for community service. For 34 years, Mrs. Chi- i sholm has worked on Moles-; worth looking after the homestead, the weather station, and the domestic animals. She has also manned the telephone and the radio. As well as these duties shej has often acted as host to Government and official vis-; itors to the station. The organist at the South; Ashburton Presbyterian; 1 Church for the last 65 years,; Mrs E. M. W. Shaw, has also been awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for community service. Mrs Shaw is a member of the Country Women’s Institute and the Red Cross Society. Mr Clifford Holdsworth, a member of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society | for 16 years, is another; recipient of the Queen’s Service Medal for community! service. He has been promi-1 nent in the work of the! Canterbury regional committee of the Historic Places Trust, and has given voluntary assistance to the Summit Road Scenic Society and the Christchurch Boys’ j High School. Mr Hold-* sworth, a Jife member of the! Canterbury Mountaineering! Club, instructs parties from I the school in river crossing I and mountain safety. Three Christchurch women are among other recipients of the Queen’s Service Medal for community service. Mrs Maisie McNair is a registered music teacher and has been active in Christchurch music circles for many years. Before coming to New Zealand in 1931, she studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and 1 worked for radio in Sydney. For many years Mrs F. G. Roberts has given her time to help young and old through various organisations and activities. Mrs Roberts was a member of the St Peter’s Girl Guide Association for 10 years and . was also on the parents;! committee of the Holmes !1 Park Scout Group. Mrs J. Warren has been a member of the North ' Canterbury branch com-1, mittee of the Save the i c hildren Fund for 30 years. ; In 1950 she formed a group i called Members and Friends 1 to support hospital beds forji children in North Korea and 11 Bangladesh. ! i The Queen's Service Medal! I for public service has been! i awarded to Mrs Mary Arm-lt

strong, who was post-; mistress at Waimangaroa, north of Westport, since *1935, except for a brief ab■jsence in 1950. For many years she was the registrar of births, deaths, and marriages at Waimangaroa. The deputy chairman of the South Canterbury Electric Power Board Mr C. A. Gallagher, of Fairlie, has i j been awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for public! I service. Mr Gallagher is a ! former member of the' ; Fairlie Community Council land a member of the Mackenzie Agricultural and Pas- [ toral Association. He is also : a member of the Mackenzie Returned Services Associ- ; ation, having served as pres- ■ ident for two terms. Mr J. B. Graham, J.P., the area controller for Lyttelton of the Christchurch Combined Civil Defence Organ- | isation, has also received ; the Queen’s Service Medal [for public service. Com- | merical manager of the Lyt- [ telton Harbour Board, Mr ! Graham is a member of many community organisations and sports clubs, including the St John Ambulance Association and the Rotary Club. He has been | chairman of the Cressy Home Trust Board, a home; [for the elderly since 1972. j ; Mr E. W. King, of Nelson, i one of the scuba divers who; I discovered and explored thei | underground caverns that! extend beyond the Riwaka! Springs, near Motueka, is another recipient of the Queen’s Service Medal for public service. Mr King has several times assisted the police in recovering bodies from flooded rivers. He has also undertaken work for the Electricity Department at Cobb Dam and has helped with oil research in Tasman Bay. The matron of the Christchurch Presbyterian Social Service Association’s Eventide Home since 1958, Miss L. M. Langridge, is a further recipent of the Queen’s Service Medal for public service. Miss Langridge is on call 24 hours a day and is the only staff member who lives-in. The Queen’s Fire Service! Medal for distinguished ser-< vice has been awarded to Mr! A. W. J. Plummer, of Sum-1 ner. Mr Plummer retired this year after 34 years’ service with the Sumner Volunteer Fire Brigade. In 1963, he was chairman of the Canterbury Fire Brigades’ Association. For 20 years Mr Plummer was an active crew member of the Sumner Lifeboat Institution.