Surveyor-General of New Zealand is a position created in 1840 when New Zealand became a separate colony.
List of office holders Surveyor general Period in office Notes Felton Mathew February 1840 – December 1841 Appointed 1839 Charles Whybrow Ligar January 1842 – February 1856 From 1852 to 1876 the office of Surveyor-General lapsed. Control of surveys was ceded to the provinces. John Turnbull Thomson May 1876 – October 1879 Surveyor-General was appointed in 1876 as head of the Department of the Surveyor-General. James McKerrow November 1879 – January 1889 Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General Stephenson Percy Smith February 1889 – June 1901 Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General Alexander Barron July 1901 – December 1901 Secretary for Crown Lands and Acting Surveyor-General John William Allman Marchant January 1902 – June 1906 Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General Thomas Humphries July 1906 – June 1909 John Strauchon July 1909 – Mar 1912 James Mackenzie April 1912 – Mar 1914 Ernest Herbert Wilmot April 1914 – Mar 1920 Thomas Noel Brodrick April 1920 – October 1920 Under-Secretary for Lands and Surveyor-General William Thomas Neill October 1920 – December 1928 Maurice Crompton Smith October 1922 – December 1922 Acting John Baird Thompson January 1929 – Mar 1929 Harry Edward Walshe April 1929 – Mar 1946 Russell Gladstone Dick April 1946 – June 1962 Robert Philip Gough June 1962 – June 1970 William Seaton Boyes July 1970 – February 1973 Ian Francis Stirling Mar 1973 – June 1981 Warren Neil Hawkey July 1981 – September 1987 William Alexander Robertson October 1987 – June 1996 also Director-General from April 1988 Anthony John Bevin June 1996 – April 2004 Acting from October 1995 to June 1996 Dr Donald Grant April 2004 – February 2014 Mark DyerLINZ appoints new Surveyor-General | Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Mar 2014 – August 2018 Anselm HaanenLINZ appoints Surveyor-General | Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand August 2018 – present Acting from August 2018 to July 2019
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Lists of British, Australian and New Zealand Surveyors-General, Government Geologists... Retrieved 5 September 2016