The honours lists are always full of people most of us haven’t heard of. Often, that’s because they’re people whose lives have been spent making it possible for others to shine. Doug Hood, who was made an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the music industry in the King’s Birthday Honours, is such a person. It’s no exaggeration to call him a cultural hero.
Hood, who turns 70 this year, had moved to Dunedin from his hometown of Te Kūiti and was working as a Post Office