Mayor of Timaru | |
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Incumbent Nigel Bowen since 2019 | |
Style | His/Her Worship |
Seat | 2 King George Place, Timaru |
Term length | Three years |
Inaugural holder | Samuel Hewlings |
Formation | 1868 |
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.
There have been 40 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868. [1] The current mayor is Nigel Bowen, who was first elected in the 2019 local elections.
Name | Term | Notes | |
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1 | Samuel Hewlings | 1868–1870 | |
2 | Henry Cain | 1870–1873 | |
3 | George Cliff | 1873–1875 | |
4 | James Sutter | 1875–1876 | |
(3) | George Cliff | 1876–1879 | second term |
(4) | James Sutter | 1879–1882 | second term |
5 | John Jackson | 1882–1886 | |
6 | Moss Jonas | 1886–1888 | |
7 | David Mitchell Ross | 1888–1891 | [2] |
8 | Andrew Sherratt | 1891–1893 | |
9 | Jacob Hill | 1893–1896 | |
10 | John James Grandi | 1896–1898 | |
11 | James Stephen Keith | 1898–1899 | |
12 | John Hole | 1899–1901 | |
13 | Charles Macintosh | 1901–1902 | |
14 | James Craigie | 1902–1912 | |
15 | Tom Hawkey | 1912–1913 | |
16 | William Angland | 1913–1914 | |
17 | Edwin Rowland Guinness | 1914–1917 | |
18 | James Maling | 1917–1919 | [3] [4] |
19 | William Chute Raymond | 1919–1921 | |
20 | Frank Rolleston | 1921–1923 | |
21 | George John Wallace | 1923–1929 | |
(16) | William Angland | 1929–1931 | second term |
22 | Thomas W. Satterthwaite | 1931–1936 | |
23 | Percy Vinnell | 1936–1938 | died 1938 |
24 | Percy Barnes Foote | 1938 | |
25 | William Glenholme Tweedy | 1938–1942 | |
26 | Stanley Hanan | 1942–1950 | died in office [lower-alpha 1] |
27 | William Leslie Richards | 1950–1953 | [lower-alpha 2] |
28 | Ronald Erle White | 1953–1959 | OBE 1959 [9] |
29 | Muriel Hilton | 1959–1962 | née Venn; MBE 1976 [10] |
30 | Charles Edward Thomson | 1962–1965 | |
31 | Durham Robert Dowell | 1965–1971 | resigned [lower-alpha 3] |
32 | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1971 | MNZM 1996 [13] |
33 | Charles Russell Hervey | 1971–1977 | QSO 1982 [14] |
(32) | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1977–1982 | second term |
34 | Mrs Helene D.L. McIver | 1982–1986 | |
35 | Dave Walker | 1986–1989 | |
36 | Archie Houstoun | 1989–1992 | MBE 1992 [15] |
37 | Wynne Raymond | 1992–2004 | |
38 | Janie Annear | 2004–2013 | ONZM 2014 [16] |
39 | Damon Odey | 2013–2019 | [17] |
40 | Nigel Bowen | 2019–present |
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