Mayor of Lower Hutt

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]

Mayor of Lower Hutt
Coat of arms of Lower Hutt
Incumbent
Campbell Barry
since 2019
StyleHis Worship
Member ofHutt City Council
Term lengthThree years, renewable
Inaugural holderWilliam Fitzherbert
Formation1891
DeputyTui Lewis
Salary$158,000[1]
WebsiteOfficial website

Since 2019, the mayor has been Campbell Barry.[3]

History

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 neighboring 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]

List of mayors

Mayors of Lower Hutt have been:[9]

Key

  Independent   Citizens'   Labour

# Name Portrait Term of office
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 William Thomas Strand 21 December 1921 16 May 1929
10 Sir Alex Roberts 16 May 1929 13 May 1931
(9) William Thomas 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 11 October 1986
16 Glen Evans 11 October 1986 14 October 1995
17 John Terris 14 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

List of deputy mayors
Key

  Independent   Citizens'   Labour

Name Term of office Mayor
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

Notes
  1. Fuller, Piers (10 November 2019). "Are our mayors earning their pay rises?". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  2. McGill 1991, pp. 119–20.
  3. Long, Jessica; Tso, Matthew (13 October 2019). "Lower Hutt elects New Zealand's youngest ever mayor, Campbell Barry". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  4. McGill 1991, p. 120.
  5. McGill 1991, pp. 152–3.
  6. McGill 1991, p. 208.
  7. Ewan, Audrey; Elphick, Michael (16 October 1989). "Lower Hutt embraces Evans-led team". The Evening Post. p. 5.
  8. "Mr Percy Dowse, Lower Hutt's Mayor for 20 Years, Dies in Hospital at 72". The Evening Post. 9 December 1970. p. 6.
  9. McGill 1991, p. 212.

References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mayors of Lower Hutt.
  • McGill, David (1991). Lower Hutt – The First Garden City. Petone, New Zealand: The Lower Hutt City Council. ISBN 1-86956-003-5.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.