John Hargraves has been named as a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to organ restoration.
 "ALL FOGSOs congratulate John on getting the Queen to acknowledge your efforts!!! It's just less than 24 hours since Joseph Nolan's magic concert on our wee Sandford organ in Kaikoura. There were two high profile JS Bach works never before attempted, at least in my time on our organ. His Passacaglia in C minor was (I thought) to much too ask our organ. I have several (recorded) versions of it but still cannot beleive that was the loveliest performance of I ever heard on any organ. Joseph really made the organ sing! He described the way the stops 'blended' and made us very proud of it. He expressed his approval of the way the organ had been restored. We're pretty chuffed. You should be too. I'm still rather stunned......Cheers and blessings Murray and the FOGSO.' Murray Davidson chairman of the Friends of the George Sandford Organ (FOGSO) Kaikoura.