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Mayor of Hastings, New Zealand

Mayor of Hastings
Te Koromatua o Heretaunga
Coat of arms of Hastings
Incumbent Sandra Hazlehurst since 24 November 2017
Style	His/Her Worship
Seat	Hastings
Term length	3 years, renewable
Formation	1886
First holder	Robert Wellwood
Deputy	Tania Kerr
Salary	$160,955[1]
Website	Official website

The mayor of Hastings is the head of local government in the Hastings District of New Zealand's North Island. The mayor presides over the Hastings District Council. The mayor is directly elected using the first-past-the-post method. The first mayor was Robert Wellwood, and the current mayor is Sandra Hazlehurst, first elected in the 2017 by-election. She is the first woman to be elected to the office.

List of mayors[edit]

Hastings Borough Council (1886–1956)

	Mayor		Term	Deputy	Term
1		Robert Wellwood	1886–1887[2][3]
2		George Ellis	1887–1890[3][4][5]
3		W. F. Burnett	1890–1891[3][5]
(2)		George Ellis	1891–1894[3]
4		Cecil Fitzroy	1894–1899[3][5]
5		William Young Dennett	1899–1904[3][4][5]
6		William Lane[6]	1904–1905[3][5]
(5)		William Young Dennett	1905–1906[3]
7		Thomas John Thompson[7]	1906–1909[3][5]
8		John A. Miller	1909–1911[3]
9		James Garnett	1911–1913[3][4]
10		William Hart	1913–1917[3][4]
11		Horace Simson[4]	1917–1919[3]
12		George Ebbett	1919–1921[3][4]
(10)		William Hart	1921–1922[3]
13		George Maddison	1922–1929[3][4]
14		George Roach	1929–1933[4]
(13)		George Maddison	1933–1941[4]
15		Algernon "Algie" Rainbow	1941–1947[4][8]	Alexander Kirkpatrick	1946–1956[9]
16		Robert Douglas Brown	1947–1953[4]
17		Sir Ed Bate	1953–1956

Hastings District Council (1989–present)

	Mayor		Term	Deputy		Term
20		Jeremy Dwyer	1989–2001[4]
21		Lawrence Yule	2001–2017[11]		Cynthia Bowers	2001–2016[12]
					Sandra Hazlehurst	2016–2017[13]
22		Sandra Hazlehurst	2017–present[14]		Simon Nixon	2017 (Acting)
					Tania Kerr	2017–present[15]

References[edit]

• From Swamp to City: A History of Hastings, New Zealand. Hastings: Heretaunga Intermediate School. 1961. pp. 103–106.