A former Land Titles lawyer in Napier has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services which include chairing a Hastings boys' home board - from Christchurch.
Lee Robinson was the solicitor for the Land Titles office in Napier in 1975-77, but has lived mainly in Canterbury, where he was chairman of the Board of St John of God Health and Disabilities Hospital Board in Halswell, taking an identical role with a new board for the Holy Family Home in Hastings after it was acquired from the Little Sisters of the Poor in the mid-1990s.
He receives an MNZM for services to the community and sport, including significant fundraising and directorship roles in health services and cricket, including the Akaroa Health Hub as it rebuilds after the earthquakes and chairing the Canterbury Cricket Trust which enabled the building of a new pavilion at Hagley Park and the ground's hosting of the opening of cricket's 2015 World Cup.