Mayor of Auckland City

The Mayor of Auckland City was the directly elected head of the Auckland City Council, the municipal government of Auckland City, New Zealand. The office existed from 1871 to 2010, when the Auckland City Council and mayor was abolished and replaced with the Auckland Council and the Mayor of Auckland.

History

Auckland obtained its first local government in 1851, when the Borough of Auckland was created, covering an area of 58,000 acres (230 km²). This short-lived entity, which existed for about one year, had only one mayor, Archibald Clark.^[1]

When the City of Auckland was formally incorporated in 1871, it covered a much smaller area of 623 acres (2.52 km²). Its municipal council was led by a chairman, Walter Lee. Soon afterwards the office of Mayor of Auckland was created. At first, the mayor was elected by the councillors. In 1875, Benjamin Tonks was the first mayor elected at large, i.e. by the ratepayers.^[1] There were 39 holders of the position. The longest-serving was Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, who held the post for 18 years, and was the first person to serve non-consecutive terms. There were two female Mayors; Catherine Tizard in 1983 and Christine Fletcher in 1998.

The city council was abolished on 31 October 2010. The area has since been governed by the Auckland Council, which also governs the rest of the Auckland Region.

List of officeholders

Auckland City (1871–2010)

#	Image	Name	Term
1		Philip Philips	1871–1874
2		Henry Isaacs	1874
3		Frederick Prime	1874–1875
4		Benjamin Tonks	1875–1876
5		William Hurst	1876–1877
6		Henry Brett	1877–1878
7		Thomas Peacock	1878–1880
8		James Clark	1880–1883
9		William Waddel	1883–1886
10		Albert Devore	1886–1889
11		John Upton	1889–1891
12		William Crowther	1891–1893
13		James Job Holland	1893–1896
14		Abraham Boardman	1896–1897
15		Peter Dignan	1897–1898
16		David Goldie	1898–1901
17		John Logan Campbell	1901
18		Alfred Kidd	1901–1903
19		Edwin Mitchelson	1903–1905
20		Arthur Myers	1905–1909
21		Charles Grey	1909–1910
22		Lemuel Bagnall	1910–1911
23		James Parr	1911–1915
24		James Gunson	1915–1925
25		George Baildon	1925–1931
26		George Hutchison	1931–1935
27		Ernest Davis	1935–1941
28		John Allum	1941–1952
29		John Luxford	1953–1956
30		Thomas Ashby	1956–1957
31		Keith Buttle	1957–1959
32		D. M. Robinson	1959–1965
33		Roy McElroy	1965–1968
(32)		D. M. Robinson	1968–1980
34		Colin Kay	1980–1983
35		Catherine Tizard	1983–1990
36		Les Mills	1990–1998
37		Christine Fletcher	1998–2001
38		John Banks	2001–2004
39		Dick Hubbard	2004–2007
(38)		John Banks	2007–2010

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mayors of Auckland.

Further reading

• "Auckland mayors". Auckland Libraries. Auckland Council. Retrieved 7 August 2016.