Mayor of Westport, New Zealand

The Mayor of Westport officiated over the borough of Westport in on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The office was created in 1873 when Westport was gazetted as a borough by the Nelson Provincial Council, and ceased with the 1989 local government reforms, when Westport Borough, Buller County and Inangahua County merged to form Buller District. The first mayor of Westport was James Wilson Humphrey.^[1]^[2]

List of mayors

The following is a complete list of the mayors of Westport:^[1]^[3]

	Name	Term of office
1	James Wilson Humphrey	1873–1874
2	Robert Whyte	1874–1876
3	John Munro	1876–1878
(2)	Robert Whyte (2nd time)	1878
4	William Reeve Haselden	1878–1880
(3)	John Munro (2nd time)	1880–1882
(4)	William Reeve Haselden (2nd time)	1882–1884
5	John Hughes	1884–1889
6	James Suisted	1889–1890
7	John Marshall	1890–1892
(6)	James Suisted (2nd time)	1892–1894
8	Hans Larsen	1894–1898
9	James Colvin	1898–1900
10	James Scanlon	1900–1903
11	Samuel James Riley	1903–1904
12	Fergus Ferguson Munro	1904–1905
13	George Hargreaves Gothard	1905–1908
14	James Horace Greenwood	1908–1913
15	Arthur Leaver	1913–1920
16	John Menzies	1920–1926
17	Charles Greenland	1926
18	James Hamilton Harkness	1927–1933
19	John Kilkenny	1933–1939
20	John Robertson	1939–1953
21	James Hunter	1953–1956
22	John Watson	1956–1968
23	Bill Craddock	1968–1977
24	Jack Dellaca	1977–1983
25	Pat O'Dea	1983–1989