Mayor of Petone

The Mayor of Petone officiated over the

. There were seventeen holders of the office.

History

There were two sets of mayors who were related. George Thomas London and his son, George, were both mayors.^[1] Likewise Joseph Mitchell and Lily Annie Huggan were spouses. When Joe died in 1957 his wife won the by-election to replace him as mayor.^[2] In 1968, George Gee, a Chinese-New Zealand greengrocer, was elected the mayor of Petone, the first Asian mayor in New Zealand history.^[3]

Upon amalgamation into the Hutt City Council, Petone's last mayor, Ted Woolf, stood for Mayor of Lower Hutt in 1989. He was unsuccessful but was elected a councillor for the new Harbour Ward.^[4]

List of mayors

Mayors of Petone were:^[5]

Key

Labour

Citizens'

United Petone

†:

	Name	Term
1	William James Kirk	1882–1888
2	Samuel Raymond Johnson	1888–1889
3	Richard Clement Kirk	1889–1891
4	Richard Mothes	1891–1892
(3)	Richard Clement Kirk	1892–1901
(4)	Richard Mothes	1901–1903
5	George Thomas London	1903–1907
6	John William McEwan	1907–1927
7	David McKenzie	1927–1934†
8	Albert Scholefield	1934–1938
9	George London	1938–1944
10	Harold Green	1944–1947
11	Alexander MacFarlane	1947–1950
12	Joe Huggan	1950–1957†
13	Annie Huggan	1957–1965
14	Ralph Love	1965–1967
-	Joe May	1967[nb 1]
(14)	Ralph Love	1967–1968
15	George Gee	1968–1980
16	Ron Marston	1980–1986
17	Ted Woolf	1986–1989

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