The Mayor of Eastbourne officiated over the Eastbourne Borough of New Zealand, which was administered by the Eastbourne Borough Council. The office existed from 1906 until 1989, when Eastbourne Borough was amalgamated into the Hutt City Council as part of the 1989 local government reforms. There were fourteen holders of the office.
History
editEastbourne was constituted as a borough in 1905 after the passing of the Eastbourne Borough Bill, 1905 which was sponsored by local Member of Parliament Thomas Wilford.[1] At the 1906 elections the first election was held and Fred Bolton was elected Eastbourne's inaugural mayor.[2] Bolton served until 1909 when he instead stood for Mayor of Wellington at that year's election, but was unsuccessful.[3]
Eastbourne's Town Clerk, Cliff Bishop, was elected mayor in 1950. He served a record ten terms consecutively. He was popular, usually winning office unopposed, having only been challenged twice. When he retired in 1980 he was New Zealand's longest serving mayor.[4] After Bishop retired councillor Elaine Jakobsson became the only woman elected mayor.[5] Jakobsson retired after two terms and was succeeded by Charles Bagnall who was opposed to the proposed amalgamation of Eastbourne with Lower Hutt. He later changed his mind on amalgamation, seeing it as inevitable, and resigned after just over a year as mayor on 26 November 1987.[6] The deputy mayor, Joy Baird, acted as mayor until a by-election was held in February 1988 which saw Ross Jamieson elected as mayor, defeating Baird and four other candidates.[7]
As a result of the 1989 local government reforms Eastbourne Borough Council was amalgamated with Lower Hutt City, Petone Borough and Hutt County to form Hutt City Council.[8] At the 1989 local elections Baird was elected to the Hutt City Council for the Harbour ward (which encompassed Eastbourne and Petone) while Jamieson was defeated also standing in the Harbour ward.[9] However Jamieson was elected to the Eastbourne Community Board and was its inaugural chairman.[10] Jamieson stood for Mayor of Lower Hutt several times in 1995 and again in 2007. He was unsuccessful in both attempts.[11][12]
List of mayors
editMayors of Eastbourne were:[13]
| Name | Term | |
|---|---|---|
1
|
Fred Bolton | 1906–1909 |
2
|
John Barr | 1909–1910 |
3
|
Herbert William Shortt | 1910–1913 |
4
|
William John Organ | 1913–1915 |
5
|
James Patrick Kelly | 1915–1917 |
6
|
Phineas Levi | 1917–1919 |
7
|
Francis Henry Mather | 1919–1920 |
| (3) | Herbert William Shortt a | 1920
|
| (7) | Francis Henry Mather | 1920–1924 |
| (3) | Herbert William Shortt | 1924–1925 |
8
|
Henry Morgan Jones | 1925–1931 |
9
|
Sam Fisher | 1931–1933 |
10
|
Wally Wise | 1933–1950 |
11
|
Cliff Bishop | 1950–1980 |
12
|
Elaine Jakobsson | 1980–1986 |
13
|
Charles Bagnall | 1986–1987 |
-
|
Joy Baird a | 1987–1988 |
14
|
Ross Jamieson | 1988–1989 |
a Indicates acting mayor
See also
editCitations
edit- ^ "Eastbourne Borough Bill 1905 (64–5) (Local)". Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Eastbourne Borough – Election of Mayor and Councillors". The Evening Post. Vol. LXXI, no. 134. 7 June 1906. p. 5.
- ^ "Mayoral Elections". The Evening Post. Vol. LXXVII, no. 100. 29 April 1909. p. 8.
- ^ "Capable mayor and administrator". The Evening Post. 15 July 1993. p. 5.
- ^ Sawyers, Teri (22 October 1980). "Eastbourne's mayor no 'radical feminist'". The Evening Post. p. 25.
- ^ Beaglehole & Carew 2001, p. 253.
- ^ "Declaration of Result of Election – Eastbourne Borough Council". The Evening Post. 24 February 1988. p. 39.
- ^ McGill 1991, p. 208.
- ^ "City of Lower Hutt – Declaration of Result of Election – Lower Hutt City Council Harbour Ward". The Evening Post. 23 October 1989. p. 19.
- ^ Beaglehole & Carew 2001, p. 254.
- ^ "City of Lower Hutt – Declaration of Results of Elections". The Evening Post. 21 October 1995. p. 29.
- ^ "How You Voted; Our community leaders for the next three years". The Dominion Post. 15 October 2007. p. A4.
- ^ Carew, Alison; McCallum, Mary (2006). Eastbourne, 100 years : the Borough of Eastbourne, 1906–1989 and beyond. Pencarrow Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780473118112.
References
edit- Beaglehole, Ann; Carew, Alison (2001). Eastbourne : a history of the eastern bays of Wellington Harbour. Historical Society of Eastbourne. ISBN 9780473079666.
- McGill, David (1991). Lower Hutt – The First Garden City. Petone, New Zealand: The Lower Hutt City Council. ISBN 1-86956-003-5.