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 since 2019Nigel Bowen | |
| Style | His/Her Worship |
| Seat | 2 King George Place, Timaru |
| Term length | Three years |
| Inaugural holder | Samuel Hewlings |
| Formation | 1868 |
List of officeholders
editThere 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.
- ^ "The Queen's Birthday Honours List 1996". 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.