24 Nov 2025

Meet the country's youngest ever NZ Funeral Association president 

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 24 November 2025

The average thirty-year-old doesn't spend their working hours thinking about death, but Bradley Shaw is not your average thirty-year-old.

He's just been made President of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand -- its youngest president ever.

Brad joined the funeral industry after leaving school, aged 16, and never left. Day to day, he's working with the dead and their loved ones on our East Coat as the director of Gateway Funeral Services in Whakatane and Kawerau.

He joins Emile Donovan.

Bradley Shaw is the new President of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand

Bradley Shaw is the new President of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand Photo: © 2022 Sarah Alloway, all rights reserved.