Mayor of Westport, New Zealand


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:
NamePortraitTerm of office
1James Wilson Humphrey1873–1874
2Robert Whyte1874–1876
3John Munro1876–1878
Robert Whyte 1878
4William Reeve Haselden1878–1880
John Munro 1880–1882
William Reeve Haselden 1882–1884
5John Hughes1884–1889
6James Suisted1889–1890
7John Marshall1890–1892
James Suisted 1892–1894
8Hans Larsen1894–1898
9James Colvin1898–1900
10James Scanlon1900–1903
11Samuel James Riley1903–1904
12Fergus Ferguson Munro1904–1905
13George Hargreaves Gothard1905–1908
14James Horace Greenwood1908–1913
15Arthur Leaver1913–1920
16John Menzies1920–1926
17Charles Greenland1926
18James Hamilton Harkness1927–1933
19John Kilkenny1933–1939
20John Robertson1939–1953
21James Hunter1953–1956
22John Watson1956–1968
23Bill Craddock1968–1977
24Jack Dellaca1977–1983
25Pat O'Dea1983–1989