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FORMER MAYORESS RECEIVED ROYAL HONOUR

John from Hutt Central

Mrs Katie Terris, of Lower Hutt, received a Queens Service Medal in the last New Year's Honours list, for services to the community and the arts
Katie Terris was involved in the Play Centre movement, including as a supervisor. She was an art tutor for adults at the former Hutt Valley Memorial College and Petone College. She was President of the Hutt Art Society, collaborating with Hutt Valley High School to deliver a series of community education art classes and workshops for adults. She is patron of the IHC Hutt Valley Association, supporting disabled people in the community, and ran pottery classes for people with intellectual disabilities. She was office manager at Volunteer Hutt. Mrs Terris is Patron of the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society.
She was Mayoress of Hutt City from 1995 to 2004

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