Mayor of Lower Hutt | |
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Style | His Worship |
Member of | Hutt City Council |
Term length | Three years, renewable |
Inaugural holder | William Fitzherbert |
Formation | 1891 |
Deputy | Tui Lewis |
Salary | $158,000 [1] |
Website | Official website |
The city of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, was first proclaimed a borough on 1 February 1891. Prior to this it had been part of Hutt County, initially as a Roads Board and from 1881 as a Town Board. [2]
Since 2019, the mayor has been Campbell Barry. [3]
The Hutt County Council was established in 1877, covering the region from Wellington's south coast up to Waikanae, excluding Wellington City. The county council was headed by a chairman rather than a mayor. As the region grew, urban parts of the Hutt County became autonomous boroughs with Lower Hutt becoming its own borough in 1891 with a borough council headed by a mayor to be directly elected by ratepayers. William Fitzherbert was elected unopposed with six borough councillors also being elected. [4] From the 1920s on population grew quickly and in 1941 Lower Hutt became a city after reaching the required population of 20,000 for city status. [5] As a result of the 1989 local government reforms Lower Hutt City amalgamated several of the neighbouring authorities including the Petone Borough Council, Eastbourne Borough Council and Hutt County Council (centred on Wainuiomata) as well as land on the waterfront formerly in the possession of the Wellington Harbour Board. [6] The sitting mayor of Lower Hutt City was elected as mayor of the expanded Hutt City Council in 1989, however retaining the title mayor of Lower Hutt despite the "Lower" being dropped from the name of the council. [7]
The longest-serving mayor was Percy Dowse who held office for twenty years, from 1950 to 1970. [8]
Mayors of Lower Hutt have been: [9]
# | Name | Portrait | Term of office | ||
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1 | William Fitzherbert | 1 February 1891 | 18 November 1898 | ||
2 | Walter George Foster | 18 November 1898 | 5 March 1900 | ||
3 | Edmund Percy Bunny | 5 March 1900 | 24 April 1901 | ||
4 | Orton Stevens | 24 April 1901 | 26 April 1905 | ||
5 | Thomas William McDonald | 26 April 1905 | 1 May 1907 | ||
6 | Thomas Peterkin | 1 May 1907 | 6 May 1909 | ||
(3) | Edmund Percy Bunny | 6 May 1909 | 7 May 1914 | ||
7 | Henry Baldwin | 7 May 1914 | 8 April 1918 | ||
8 | Percy Rishworth | 27 April 1918 | 21 December 1921 | ||
9 | Will Strand | 21 December 1921 | 16 May 1929 | ||
10 | Sir Alex Roberts | 16 May 1929 | 13 May 1931 | ||
(9) | Will Strand | 13 May 1931 | 10 May 1933 | ||
11 | Jack Andrews | 10 May 1933 | 9 June 1947 | ||
12 | Ernst Peterson Hay | 9 June 1947 | 20 January 1949 | ||
13 | William Gregory | 14 March 1949 | 18 November 1950 | ||
14 | Percy Dowse | 18 November 1950 | 9 December 1970 | ||
15 | Sir John Kennedy-Good | 21 December 1970 | 24 October 1986 | ||
16 | Glen Evans | 24 October 1986 | 31 October 1995 | ||
17 | John Terris | 31 October 1995 | 10 October 2004 | ||
18 | David Ogden | 10 October 2004 | 9 October 2010 | ||
19 | Ray Wallace | 9 October 2010 | 12 October 2019 | ||
20 | Campbell Barry | 12 October 2019 | present |
Name | Term of office | Mayor | |||
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William Henry Russell | 1908 | 1909 | Peterkin | ||
Vacant | |||||
Henry Baldwin | 1910 | 1911 | Bunny | ||
Vacant | |||||
John Brassell | 1918 | Baldwin | |||
Vacant | |||||
Archibald John Hobbs | 1925 | 1931 | Strand | ||
Roberts | |||||
John Mitchell | 1931 | 1944 | Andrews | ||
Ernst Peterson Hay | 1944 | 1947 | |||
William Gregory | 1947 | 1949 | Hay | ||
Eric Rothwell | 1949 | 1950 | Gregory | ||
Harry Horlor | 1950 | 1956 | Dowse | ||
James McDonald | 1956 | 1959 | |||
George Barker | 1959 | 1962 | |||
Chen Werry | 1962 | 1968 | |||
Dave Hadley | 1968 | 1971 | |||
Kennedy-Good | |||||
John Seddon | 1971 | 1974 | |||
Chen Werry | 1974 | 1977 | |||
Ernie Barry | 1977 | 1980 | |||
Mollie Ngan Kee | 1980 | 1983 | |||
Teri Puketapu | 1983 | 1989 | |||
Evans | |||||
Betty van Gaalen | 1989 | 1995 | |||
Joan Monrad | 1995 | 1998 | Terris | ||
Pat Brosnan | 1998 | 2001 | |||
Ray Wallace | 2001 | 2004 | |||
Roger Styles | 2004 | 2010 | Ogden | ||
David Bassett | 2010 | 2019 | Wallace | ||
Tui Lewis | 2019 | present | Barry |
Lower Hutt is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area.
Sir John Kennedy-Good was a New Zealand politician. He was mayor of Lower Hutt from 1970 to 1986.
Percy Dowse was a New Zealand politician. He was mayor of Lower Hutt from 1950 to 1970.
William Cooper Gregory was a New Zealand politician who was the Mayor of Lower Hutt from 1949 to 1950.
Thomas Glendwr Gardner "Glen" Evans was a New Zealand politician. He served as the mayor of Lower Hutt from 1986 to 1995.
Campbell Nicholas Barry is a New Zealand politician. He has served as Mayor of Lower Hutt since 2019.
John Bryan Seddon was a New Zealand politician and chief executive. He was the deputy mayor of Lower Hutt and later chief executive of Porirua City Council for twenty years from 1980 until 2000.
The Lower Hutt Citizens' Association, was a right-leaning local body electoral ticket in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It was formed in 1945 by merging the selection process of council candidates of several civic interest groups and business lobby groups. Its main ambitions were to continue to control the Lower Hutt City Council, reduce local spending and deny left-leaning Labour Party candidates election.
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Eric Francis Rothwell was a New Zealand lawyer and politician who was Chief Judge of the High Court of Western Samoa from 1957 to 1960.
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