The Mayor of Westport officiated over the borough of Westport in on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The office was created in 1873 when Westport was gazetted as a borough by the Nelson Provincial Council, and ceased with the 1989 local government reforms, when Westport Borough, Buller County and Inangahua County merged to form Buller District. The first mayor of Westport was James Wilson Humphrey.
List of mayors The following is a complete list of the mayors of Westport:
NamePortrait Term of office 1 James Wilson Humphrey 1873–1874 2 Robert Whyte 1874–1876 3 John Munro 1876–1878 (2) Robert Whyte (2nd time) 1878 4 William Reeve Haselden 1878–1880 (3) John Munro (2nd time) 1880–1882 (4) William Reeve Haselden (2nd time) 1882–1884 5 John Hughes 1884–1889 6 James Suisted 1889–1890 7 John Marshall 1890–1892 (6) James Suisted (2nd time) 1892–1894 8 Hans Larsen 1894–1898 9 James Colvin 1898–1900 10 James Scanlon 1900–1903 11 Samuel James Riley 1903–1904 12 Fergus Ferguson Munro 1904–1905 13 George Hargreaves Gothard 1905–1908 14 James Horace Greenwood 1908–1913 15 Arthur Leaver 1913–1920 16 John Menzies 1920–1926 17 Charles Greenland 1926 18 James Hamilton Harkness 1927–1933 19 John Kilkenny 1933–1939 20 John Robertson 1939–1953 21 James Hunter 1953–1956 22 John Watson 1956–1968 23 Bill Craddock 1968–1977 24 Jack Dellaca 1977–1983 25 Pat O'Dea 1983–1989
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