Three receive royal accolades

• Published date: 16 June 2022
• Publication title: Guardian, The

Rod Pelosi has contributed to football at local, national and international level in administrative and advisory roles since 1981

At the regional level Pelosi held leadership roles with Hawke’s Bay Football, Central Regional League and Horowhenua Football Association. He chaired the Central Football Federation from 2006 to 2010. He was a member of the New Zealand Football Coaching Committee from 1983 to 1992. He has contributed significantly to the progress and learning of football referees, assessing and supporting their development from local level up to national and international standards. He has been a New Zealand Football National League referee assessor since 2005 and was a Football Australia A League referee assessor from 2011 to 2017.

He developed key relationships to establish an annual exchange programme for New Zealand Football referees to train alongside Professional Game Match Officials Limited referees in England. He chaired the New Zealand Football Referees Committee from 2001 to 2011 and has been chairman of the appointments panel since 2011. He chaired New Zealand Football Match Officials Incorporated from 2016 to 2021 and for 10 years was a trustee of Sport Manawatū.

Dr Anne Robertson has been contributing to sexual health services in New Zealand for more than 24 years.

She has been supporting the sustainability of sexual health and sexual assault services in New Zealand and improving the sexual health outcomes for people as current president of the New Zealand Sexual Health Society, in Australasia as previous president of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine, and the Asia Pacific region through committee membership of the International Union against STI.

She was the MidCentral District Health Board’s regional co-ordinator for Medical Sexual Assault Clinicians Aotearoa from 1990 to 2014, helping create a 24-hour roster for provision of sexual...