Mayor of Hastings, New Zealand

Mayor of Hastings
Incumbent Sandra Hazlehurst since 24 November 2017
Appointer	Elected
Inaugural holder	Robert Wellwood
Formation	1886
Deputy	Tania Kerr
Website	Official website

The mayor of Hastings is the head of the Local Government of Hastings, New Zealand, and presides over the Hastings District Council. The first mayor was Robert Wellwood (1886–1887),^[1] and the current mayor is Sandra Hazlehurst, who is the first woman to be elected to the office.

The mayor is directly elected using a first-past-the-post electoral system.^[2]

List of mayors of Hastings

There have been 22 mayors of Hastings.

	Mayor		Term of office
1		Robert Wellwood	1886–1887[1][3]
2		George Ellis	1887–1890[3][4][5]
3		W. F. Burnett	1890–1891[3][5]
(2)		George Ellis	1891–1894[3]
4		Cecil Fitzroy	1894–1899[3][5]
5		William Young Dennett	1899–1904[3][4][5]
6		W. Lane	1904–1905[3][5]
(5)		William Young Dennett	1905–1906[3]
7		T. J. Thompson	1906–1909[3][5]
8		John A. Miller	1909–1911[3]
9		James Garnett	1911–1913[3][4]
10		William Hart	1913–1917[3][4]
11		Horace Simson[4]	1917–1919[3]
12		George Ebbett	1919–1921[3][4]
(10)		William Hart	1921–1922[3]
13		George Maddison	1922–1929[3][4]
14		George Roach	1929–1933[4]
(13)		George Maddison	1933–1941[4]
15		Algie Rainbow	1941–1947[4][6]
16		R.D. Brown	1947–1953[4]
17		Sir Ed Bate	1953–1959[4][7]
18		Ron Giorgi	1959–1974[4]
19		Jim O'Connor	1974–1986[4]
20		Jeremy Dwyer	1986–2001[4]
21		Lawrence Yule	2001–2017[8]
22		Sandra Hazlehurst	2017–present[9]

References

• From Swamp to City: A History of Hastings, New Zealand. Hastings: Heretaunga Intermediate School. 1961. pp. 103–106.

This page was last edited on 9 March 2024, at 21:56