Mayor of New Plymouth

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Mayor of New Plymouth
Incumbent
Neil Holdom
since  2016
Style His/Her Worship
Term length Three years, renewable
Inaugural holderArthur Standish
Formation1876
DeputyDavid Bublitz [1]
Salary$160,757 [2]
Website Official website

The mayor of New Plymouth officiates over the New Plymouth District Council in New Zealand. Since the 2022 local elections, the mayor is elected directly using the single transferable vote electoral system; prior to that, first-past-the-post voting was used. [3] The current mayor is Neil Holdom. [1]

Contents

List of office holders

New Plymouth has had 26 mayors:

NamePortraitTerm
1 Arthur Standish [4] 1876–1878
2 Albert Cracroft Fookes [5] 1878–1879
3 James Davidson [6] 1879–1881
4 William Bayly [7] 1881–1884
5 James Paul [8] 1884–1886
(4) William Bayly [7] 1886–1888
6 John Barton Roy [9] 1888–1889
7 James Bellringer [10] 1889–1893
(6) John Barton Roy [9] 1893–1897
8 Edward Dockrill [11] Edward Dockrill.jpg 1897–1903
9 Richard Cock [12] 1903–1906
(8) Edward Dockrill [11] Edward Dockrill.jpg 1906–1908
10 Gustave Tisch [13] Gustave Tisch (cropped).jpg 1908–1911
11George William Browne1911–1914
12J. E. Wilson1914–1915
13Charles Hayward Burgess1915–1919
14 James Clarke 1919–1920
15Frank Edwin Wilson [14] 1920–1927
16Victor Griffiths1927–1933
17 Everard Gilmour [15] Everard Gilmour.jpg 1933–1953
18 Edward Hill [15] Edward Owen Eustace Hill.jpg 1953–1956
19 Alfred Honnor [15] 1956–1968
20 Denis Sutherland [15] 1968–1980
21 David Lean [15] 1980–1992
22 Claire Stewart [15] 1992–2001
23Peter Tennent [15] 2001–2010
24 Harry Duynhoven [15] [16] Harry Duynhoven.jpg 2010–2013
25 Andrew Judd [1] [15] 2013–2016
26Neil Holdom [1] [15] 2016–2025

List of deputy mayors

NameTermMayor
George Fry1951–1953Gilmour
Alfred Honnor1953–1956 Hill
William Dean1956–1965Honnor
Royden Burkitt1965–1968
Edmund Allen1968–1974Sutherland
Royden Burkitt1974–1980
Ron Barclay 1980–1989Lean
Thomas Watson1989–1992
Thomas Beeby1992–1994Stewart
W David Wilkinson1994–1995
Brian Bellringer1995–1998
Peter Tennent1998–2001
Lynn Bublitz2001–2007Tennent
Alex Matheson2007–2013
Duynhoven
Heather Dodunski2013–2016 Judd
Craig McFarlane2016–2017Holdom
Richard Jordan2017–2022
David Bublitz2022–present

Deaths in office

James Clarke died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash while in office; [17] when the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920. [18] Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening. [19]

Gustave Tisch also died while in office as the result of an illness. [20]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mayor and Councillors". New Plymouth District Council . Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Edmunds, Susan (13 June 2024). "How much your local council gets paid". RNZ. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "Voting". New Plymouth District Council. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Mr. Arthur Standish". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Mr. Albert Cracroft Fookes". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  6. ↑ "Mr. James Davidson". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Mr. William Bayly". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  8. ↑ "Mr. James Paul". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  9. 1 2 "Mr. John Barton Roy". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  10. ↑ "Mr. James Bellringer". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  11. 1 2 Cyclopedia Company Limited (1908). "Mr. Edward Dockrill". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts. Christchurch: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand . Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "Mr. Richard Cock". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  13. ↑ "Gustave Gardener Tisch". Puke Ariki. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  14. ↑ "Robertshawe, Nancy Grace". Puke Ariki. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Past Councillors and Mayors". New Plymouth District Council . Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  16. ↑ Matt Rilkoff (12 October 2013). "Andrew Judd mayor of New Plymouth". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  17. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 65437". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  18. ↑ "First Flight, First Crash: New Plymouth Goes Down in Aviation History". terangiaoaonunui.pukeariki.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  19. ↑ "The passengers". Hawera and Normanby Star . Vol. XLI. 12 November 1920. p. 5. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  20. ↑ "Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 44, 14 August 1911, Page 4". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
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