Murray McKinnon, Auckland, QSM, for services to athletics
Mr Murray McKinnon has been involved in athletics as a competitor, administrator, official, commentator and reporter for more than 50 years. He competed as a middle distance and cross-country runner in Auckland and nationally. He has served on the Athletics Auckland Centre as Treasurer, and as President, for two terms and in 1997 was made a Life Member. Mr McKinnon served two terms as a board member of Athletics New Zealand and as President. He began reporting on athletics in Auckland in 1969, writing for Wellington newspapers and the New Zealand Herald. He has been an announcer at Mount Smart Stadium for athletic events since 1969. He has also undertaken radio commentaries throughout New Zealand at national championships and at Commonwealth Games, in New Zealand and Australia. Mr McKinnon is an active Justice of the Peace.