Mayor of Gore

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Mayor of Gore
Incumbent
Ben Bell
since  2022
Style His Worship
Term length Three years, renewable
Inaugural holderThomas Green
Formation1885
DeputyKeith Hovell [1]
Salary$112,010 [2]
Website Official website

The mayor of Gore officiates over the Gore District Council. [3] Prior to local government reorganisation in 1989, the mayor of Gore officiated over the Gore Borough.

Contents

The current mayor is Ben Bell. [4]

List of office holders

Gore Borough

NamePortraitTerm of officeNotes
1Thomas Green No image.png 1885–1886 [5]
2John MacGibbon No image.png 1886–1887 [5]
3Ian S. Simson No image.png 1887–1888 [5] [6]
4James Beattie No image.png 1888–1889 [5]
(3)Ian S. Simson No image.png 1889–1890 [5]
5Alfred Dolamore No image.png 1890 [5] [7]
(2)John MacGibbon No image.png 1890–1892 [5]
(3)Ian S. Simson No image.png 1892–1893 [5]
6William Macara No image.png 1893–1894 [5]
7Thomas Brewer No image.png 1894–1895 [5]
8 Dugald Poppelwell No image.png 1895–1896 [5]
(4)James Beattie No image.png 1896–1897 [5]
9James Copland No image.png 1897–1898 [5]
10Duncan McFarlane Duncan McFarlane Junior.png 1898–1899 [5] [8]
11John Ballantine No image.png 1899–1901 [5]
12Archibald MacGibbon No image.png 1901–1902 [5] [9]
(10)Duncan McFarlane Duncan McFarlane Junior.png 1902–1903 [5]
(4)James Beattie No image.png 1903–1904 [5]
(8) Dugald Poppelwell No image.png 1904–1906 [5]
(12)Archibald MacGibbon No image.png 1906–1910 [5]
(8) Dugald Poppelwell No image.png 1910–1913 [5]
13 David McDougall No image.png 1913–1914 [5]
(10)Duncan McFarlane Duncan McFarlane Junior.png 1914–1915 [5]
(13) David McDougall No image.png 1915–1919 [5]
14Andrew Martin No image.png 1919–1921 [5]
(13) David McDougall No image.png 1921–1923 [5]
(8) Dugald Poppelwell No image.png 1923–1927 [5]
(13) David McDougall No image.png 1927–1929 [5]
(8) Dugald Poppelwell No image.png 1929–1931 [5]
15Alexander Newman Alexander Newman.png 1931–1956 [5]
16Wilson C. Campbell No image.png 1956–1959 [10]
17W. G. Mackay No image.png 1959– [11]
Hans Charles Hankey No image.png
J. C. Barron No image.png  ?–1965 [12]
J. C. McLeod No image.png 1965–? [12]
Ivan Elder No image.png –1980 [13] [14]
Hallam Smith No image.png 1980–1986 [15]
Gabriel Farry No image.png 1986–1989 [16]

Gore District

NamePortraitTerm of office
1 Ian Tulloch No image.png 1989–1995 [17]
2 Mary Ogg No image.png 1995–2001 [18]
3Owen O'Connor No image.png 2001–2004 [19]
4Tracy Hicks Tracy Hicks (cropped).jpg 2004–2022 [20]
5 Ben Bell No image.png 2022–present [4]

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  2. ↑ Edmunds, Susan (13 June 2024). "How much your local council gets paid". RNZ. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Your Council". goredc.govt.nz. Gore District Council.
  4. 1 2 "Gore elects youngest mayor in NZ history". Otago Daily Times . 13 October 2022. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "Eastern Southland: municipality of Gore". Otago Daily Times . No. 22616. 6 July 1935. p. 19. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
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  7. ↑ "AN EX-MAYOR". Mataura Ensign. Papers Past. 22 November 1910.
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  12. 1 2 "Two metropolitan mayors defeated". The Press . Vol. 104, no. 30878. 11 October 1965. p. 1. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  13. ↑ "Flood-relief fund expected to reach $1M with subsidy". The Press . Papers Past. 26 October 1978.
  14. ↑ Gerken, Sonia (23 March 2009). "Gore woman 'wears out' at 98". The Southland Times . Stuff.
  15. ↑ "Gore library legacy to Hallam Lloyd Smith". Southland Times . 13 January 1998. p. 3.
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