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Mayor of Timaru
The mayor of Timaru is the directly elected head of the Timaru District Council, the local government authority for the Timaru District in New Zealand, which it controls as a territorial authority.
| Mayor of Timaru | |
|---|---|
Incumbent Nigel Bowen since 2019 | |
| Style | His/Her Worship |
| Seat | 2 King George Place, Timaru |
| Term length | Three years |
| Inaugural holder | Samuel Hewlings |
| Formation | 1868 |
List of officeholders edit
There have been 40 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868.[1] The current mayor is Nigel Bowen, who was first elected in the 2019 local elections.
| Name | Term | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samuel Hewlings | 1868–1870 | |
| 2 | Henry Cain | 1870–1873 | |
| 3 | George Cliff | 1873–1875 | |
| 4 | James Sutter | 1875–1876 | |
| (3) | George Cliff | 1876–1879 | second term |
| (4) | James Sutter | 1879–1882 | second term |
| 5 | John Jackson | 1882–1886 | |
| 6 | Moss Jonas | 1886–1888 | |
| 7 | David Mitchell Ross | 1888–1891 | [2] |
| 8 | Andrew Sherratt | 1891–1893 | |
| 9 | Jacob Hill | 1893–1896 | |
| 10 | John James Grandi | 1896–1898 | |
| 11 | James Stephen Keith | 1898–1899 | |
| 12 | John Hole | 1899–1901 | |
| 13 | Charles Macintosh | 1901–1902 | |
| 14 | James Craigie | 1902–1912 | |
| 15 | Tom Hawkey | 1912–1913 | |
| 16 | William Angland | 1913–1914 | |
| 17 | Edwin Rowland Guinness | 1914–1917 | |
| 18 | James Maling | 1917–1919 | [3][4] |
| 19 | William Chute Raymond | 1919–1921 | |
| 20 | Frank Rolleston | 1921–1923 | |
| 21 | George John Wallace | 1923–1929 | |
| (16) | William Angland | 1929–1931 | second term |
| 22 | Thomas W. Satterthwaite | 1931–1936 | |
| 23 | Percy Vinnell | 1936–1938 | died 1938 |
| 24 | Percy Barnes Foote | 1938 | |
| 25 | William Glenholme Tweedy | 1938–1942 | |
| 26 | Stanley Hanan | 1942–1950 | died in office[a] |
| 27 | William Leslie Richards | 1950–1953 | [b] |
| 28 | Ronald Erle White | 1953–1959 | OBE 1959[9] |
| 29 | Muriel Hilton | 1959–1962 | née Venn; MBE 1976[10] |
| 30 | Charles Edward Thomson | 1962–1965 | |
| 31 | Durham Robert Dowell | 1965–1971 | resigned[c] |
| 32 | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1971 | MNZM 1996[13] |
| 33 | Charles Russell Hervey | 1971–1977 | QSO 1982[14] |
| (32) | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1977–1982 | second term |
| 34 | Mrs Helene D.L. McIver | 1982–1986 | |
| 35 | Dave Walker | 1986–1989 | |
| 36 | Archie Houstoun | 1989–1992 | MBE 1992[15] |
| 37 | Wynne Raymond | 1992–2004 | |
| 38 | Janie Annear | 2004–2013 | ONZM 2014[16] |
| 39 | Damon Odey | 2013–2019 | [17] |
| 40 | Nigel Bowen | 2019–present |
Notes edit
- ^ Died on 2 August 1950; elder brother of Ralph Hanan[5]
- ^ Richards was deputy mayor to Hanan and councillors elected him mayor in September 1950 following Hanan's death.[6] At the 1950 local elections in November 1950, Richards defeated Jack Satterthwaite, a son of former mayor Thomas W. Satterthwaite.[7][8]
- ^ Resigned during the first half of 1971 when he moved to Christchurch;[11] elected to Christchurch City Council in the 1971 local election[12]
References edit
- ^ "Timaru". Rootsweb. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Mayoral Elections". The Timaru Herald. Vol. XLVII, no. 4395. 20 November 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Timaru". The Timaru Herald. Vol. CVI, no. 16253. 26 April 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Timaru Items". The Press. Vol. LVIII, no. 17446. 5 May 1922. p. 10. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Obituary". The Press. Vol. LXXXVI, no. 26181. 3 August 1950. p. 6. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "The new mayor of Timaru". The Press. Vol. LXXXVI, no. 26221. 19 September 1950. p. 8. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Mayoralty of Timaru". The Press. Vol. LXXXVI, no. 26246. 18 October 1950. p. 8. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Timaru City Council". The Press. Vol. LXXXVI, no. 26274. 20 November 1950. p. 8. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "No. 41729". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1959. p. 3740.
- ^ "No. 46921". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1976. p. 8056.
- ^ "Local bodies president". The Press. Vol. CXI, no. 32647. 1 July 1971. p. 5. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Christchurch City Council". The Press. 21 October 1971. p. 25.
- ^ . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 3 June 1996. Archived from the original on 19 July 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "No. 48839". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1981. p. 40.
- ^ "No. 52953". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1992. p. 30.
- ^ "New Year honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ Bailey, Emma (12 October 2013). "Damon Odey wins Timaru mayoralty". The Timaru Herald. Retrieved 17 August 2015.