Trevor Maxwell |
Trevor Maxwell, MNZM
The local community, music, entertainment, arts and culture have all played a large part in Trevor Maxwell’s life.
Deputy Mayor of Rotorua for the past five years, he is the city’s longest serving district councillor with more than 32 years to his credit. Tourism New Zealand appointed Trevor Kaupapa director in 2008, and he is currently chairman of the ‘Opera in the Pa’ organising committee, deputy chairman of Toi Maori (New Zealand Maori Arts Board), and a member of the Rotorua Civic Arts Trust, Lakeside Concert Charitable Trust and the Rotorua Tourism Board. Former leader of award-winning cultural group, Ngati Rangiwewehi, he was also the Te Arawa representative on the Aotearoa Performing Arts Committee.
Born and raised in Rotorua, Trevor became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for his long-standing services to Maori culture, the arts and local government affairs in 2002. Having had the good fortune to have travelled extensively, both in New Zealand and overseas, Trevor still believes Rotorua is the best place on earth to raise children and to care for our older people. Trevor and the late Atareta Maxwell have two children, Inia and Kahurangi.
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