Mayor of Timaru


This is a list of mayors of Timaru, New Zealand, and includes the former Timaru Borough and the current Timaru District Council.

List of mayors of Timaru

There have been 39 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868. The current mayor is Damon Odey, who was first elected in the 2013 local elections.
NameTermNotes
1Samuel Hewlings1868–1870
2Henry Cain1870–1873
3George Cliff1873–1875
4James Sutter1875–1876
George Cliff1876–1879second term
James Sutter1879–1882second term
5John Jackson1882–1886
6Moss Jonas1886–1888
7David Mitchell Ross1888–1891
8Andrew Sherratt1891–1893
9Jacob Hill1893–1896
10John James Grandi1896–1898
11James Stephen Keith1898–1899
12John Hole1899–1901
13Charles Macintosh1901–1902
14James Craigie, MLC1902–1912
15Tom Hawkey1912–1913
16William Angland1913–1914
17Edwin Rowland Guinness1914–1917
18James Maling1917–1919
19William Chute Raymond1919–1921
20Frank Rolleston1921–1923
21George John Wallace1923–1929
William Angland1929–1931second term
22Thomas W. Satterthwaite1931–1936
23Percy Vinnell1936–1938died 1938
24Percy Barnes Foote1938
25William Glenholme Tweedy1938–1942
26Alfred Ernest Stanley Hanan1942–1950
27William Leslie Richards1950–1953
28R. E. White1953–1959
29Muriel Ernesta Hilton 1959–1962née Venn; MBE 1976
30Charles Edward Thomson1962–1965
31Durham Robert Dowell1965–1971elected to Christchurch City Council in the 1971 local election
32Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett1971MNZM 1996
33Charles Russell Hervey1971–1977QSO 1982
Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett1977–1982second term
34Mrs Helene D.L. McIver1982–1986
35Dave Walker1986–1989
36Archibald Campbell "Archie" Houstoun1989–1992MBE 1992
37Wynne Archdall Raymond1992–2004
38Jane Mary Annear 2004–2013ONZM 2014
39Damon Odey2013–2019
40Nigel Bowen2019–present