Mayor of Timaru

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Mayor of Timaru
Incumbent
Nigel Bowen
since  2019
Style His/Her Worship
Seat 2 King George Place, Timaru
Term length Three years
Inaugural holderSamuel Hewlings
Formation1868
DeputyScott Shannon [1]
Salary$142,005 [2]
Website Official website

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.

Contents

List of officeholders

There have been 40 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868. [3] The current mayor is Nigel Bowen, who was first elected in the 2019 local elections.

NameTermNotes
1Samuel Hewlings1868–1870
2 Henry Cain 1870–1873
3George Cliff1873–1875
4 James Sutter 1875–1876
(3)George Cliff1876–1879second term
(4)James Sutter1879–1882second term
5John Jackson1882–1886
6Moss Jonas1886–1888
7David Mitchell Ross1888–1891 [4]
8Andrew Sherratt1891–1893
9Jacob Hill1893–1896
10John James Grandi1896–1898
11James Stephen Keith1898–1899
12John Hole1899–1901
13 Charles Macintosh 1901–1902
14 James Craigie 1902–1912
15Tom Hawkey1912–1913
16William Angland1913–1914
17Edwin Rowland Guinness1914–1917
18James Maling1917–1919 [5] [6]
19William Chute Raymond1919–1921
20 Frank Rolleston 1921–1923
21George John Wallace1923–1929
(16)William Angland1929–1931second term
22Thomas W. Satterthwaite1931–1936
23 Percy Vinnell 1936–1938died 1938
24Percy Barnes Foote1938
25William Glenholme Tweedy1938–1942
26 Stanley Hanan 1942–1950died in office [a]
27William Leslie Richards1950–1953 [b]
28Ronald Erle White1953–1959OBE 1959 [11]
29Muriel Hilton1959–1962née Venn; MBE 1976 [12]
30Charles Edward Thomson1962–1965
31Durham Robert Dowell1965–1971resigned [c]
32Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett1971MNZM 1996 [15]
33Charles Russell Hervey1971–1977QSO 1982 [16]
(32)Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett1977–1982second term
34Mrs Helene D.L. McIver1982–1986
35Dave Walker1986–1989
36Archie Houstoun1989–1992MBE 1992 [17]
37Wynne Raymond1992–2004
38Janie Annear2004–2013ONZM 2014 [18]
39 Damon Odey 2013–2019 [19]
40Nigel Bowen2019–present

Notes

  1. ↑ Died on 2 August 1950; elder brother of Ralph Hanan [7]
  2. ↑ Richards was deputy mayor to Hanan and councillors elected him mayor in September 1950 following Hanan's death. [8] At the 1950 local elections in November 1950, Richards defeated Jack Satterthwaite, a son of former mayor Thomas W. Satterthwaite. [9] [10]
  3. ↑ Resigned during the first half of 1971 when he moved to Christchurch; [13] elected to Christchurch City Council in the 1971 local election [14]

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