Mr James Morris, of Hikurangi, ONZM for services to table tennis
James Morris is the immediate past Chair of Northland Table Tennis. In the 1980s he travelled New Zealand to raise funds for Northland Table Tennis to build a stadium in Whangarei. He was Coaching Director and High Performance Director of Table Tennis New Zealand. He coached the New Zealand Table Tennis Team for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He was a Board member of Sport Northland and helped to establish the Kauri Club. He was President of Oceania Table Tennis and a table tennis jury member at the 2016 Olympic Games. He was Vice President on the Executive Council of the International Table Tennis Federation. Mr Morris was co-tournament manager of the World Veteran Table Tennis Championships in Auckland in 2014, the largest table tennis event held in New Zealand.