Mayor of Kawerau

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Mayor of Kawerau
Incumbent
Faylene Tunui
since 2022
Style His/Her Worship
Seat 2 Ranfurly Court, Kawerau
Term length 3 years
Formation30 November 1959
First holderClive Boyce

The Mayor of Kawerau officiates over the Kawerau District of New Zealand's North Island. There have been six mayors of Kawerau since 1959. The current mayor is Faylene Tunui, who has been in office since 2022. [1]

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History

The area was governed as a borough from 1954 and 1989, and has been administered by a district council since 1989. Between 1954 and 1959, the administration of the borough was headed by a town commissioner, Frank Prideaux, appointed by the governor-general under the terms of the Kawerau and Murupapa Townships Act 1953. [2] Prideaux Park in Kawerau was named in his honour in 1960. He died in 1979. [3]

In 1959, the borough's first mayor, Clive Boyce, was elected. [2] Boyce and his wife, Maisie, had moved to Kawerau from Cambridge in 1954 and opened a general store. [3] Clive Boyce was elected to the Kawerau Advisory Committee in 1955, [2] and served as mayor from 1959 to 1965. [3] The Boyces left Kawerau in 1967. [3] Clive Boyce died in 1991, aged 73. [4] Boyce Park in Kawerau was named after him. [3]

The second mayor, Roy Stoneham, was elected in 1965, and was re-elected unopposed at each election until he died in office in 1983. [3] Stoneham was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community, in the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours. [5] Originally from England, Stoneham worked at the Tasman pulp and paper mill, and was first appointed to the Kawerau Advisory Committee in 1959. [3] Roy Stoneham Park and Stoneham Walk in Kawerau were named to honour Stoneham's long involvement in local government in the area. [3]

Following Stoneham's death, Ron Hardie was appointed mayor, and held the position until retiring at the 1986 local-body elections. [3] He was later appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to local government, in the 1991 New Year Honours. [6] Hardie moved to Kawerau in the 1950s, and worked as a superintendent in the timber yard at the Tasman pulp and paper mill. [3] He died in 1995. [7] Hardie Avenue and the Ron Hardie Recreation Centre in Kawerau have been named in his honour. [3]

Lyn Hartley (née Warbrick) was elected mayor in 1986, having served as deputy mayor for six years, and she retained the position during the transition from borough to district council, stepping down in 2001. [3] [8] A trained nurse, she originally moved to Kawerau to work at the town's maternity hospital. [3] In the 1988 New Year Honours, Hartley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community. [9] She received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, and in 1993 she was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. [10] She died in 2021. [8] Lyn Hartley Reserve in Kawerau is named in her honour. [3]

Malcolm Campbell served as mayor from 2001 to 2022. He ran a butchery in the town for 46 years, until he closed the business in 2021 after it was severely damaged in a ram-raid and fire. [11] In the 2023 New Year Honours, Campbell was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to local government and the community. [12]

List of officeholders

NameTerm of office
1Clive Boyce1959–1965
2Roy Stoneham1965–1983
3Ron Hardie1983–1986
4Lyn Hartley1986–2001
5Malcolm Campbell2001–2022
6Faylene Tunui2022–present

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Council history". Kawerau District Council . Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Kawerau streets named after local identities". Kete Kawerau. Sir James Fletcher Kawerau Museum. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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  5. ↑ "No. 47237". The London Gazette (4th supplement). 11 June 1977. p. 7128.
  6. ↑ "No. 52383". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1990. p. 30.
  7. ↑ "Ronald Fife Hardie". Online Cenotaph. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  8. 1 2 "Former Kawerau mayor 'sadly missed'". Rotorua Daily Post. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "No. 51173". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1987. p. 34.
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  11. ↑ Houpt, Emma (7 October 2021). "Kawerau mayor Malcolm Campbell won't reopen after butchery destroyed". Rotorua Daily Post. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  12. ↑ "New Year honours list 2023". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
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