Mayor of Lower Hutt

Now known as Hutt City, the borough and, subsequently, city of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, was first proclaimed a borough on 1 February 1891. Prior to this it had been part of Hutt County, initially as a Roads Board and from 1881 as a Town Board.^[1] Since 2010, the mayor has been Ray Wallace.^[2]

List of mayors

	Name	Term	National affiliation	Notes
1	William Fitzherbert	1891–1898		[3][4]
2	Walter George Foster	1898–1900		[3]
3	Edmund Percy Bunny	1900–1901		[3]
4	Orton Stevens	1901–1905		[3]
5	Col. Thomas William McDonald	1905–1907	Liberal	[3][5]
6	Thomas Alexander Peterkin	1907–1909		[3]
3	Edmund Percy Bunny	1909–1914		2nd period[3]
7	Henry Baldwin	1914–1918		[3]
8	Edward Percival (Percy) Rishworth	1918–1921		[3]
9	William Thomas Strand	1921–1929		[3]
10	Sir Alexander Fowler Roberts	1929–1931		[3]
9	William Thomas Strand	1931–1933		2nd period[3]
11	John William Andrews	1933–1947	National	[3]
12	Ernst Peterson Hay	1947–1949		[3]
13	William Gregory	1949–1950		[3]
14	Percy Dowse	1950–1970	Labour	[3]
15	Sir John Kennedy-Good	1970–1986	National	[3]
16	Glen Evans	1986–1995		[6]
17	John Terris	1995–2004	Labour
18	David Ogden	2004–2010
19	Ray Wallace	2010–present	National

References

1. McGill, David (1991). Lower Hutt - The First Garden City. Petone, New Zealand: The Lower Hutt City Council. pp. 119–120. ISBN 1-86956-003-5.
2. "Ray Wallace". Hutt City Council. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
3. McGill, David (1991). Lower Hutt - The First Garden City. Petone, New Zealand: The Lower Hutt City Council. p. 212. ISBN 1-86956-003-5.
4. Cyclopedia Company Limited (1897). "General". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Wellington Provincial District. Wellington: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
5. "A Clash of The Clans". NZ Truth (1204). 27 December 1928. p. 4. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
6. "Your Regional Councillors" (PDF). Greater Wellington Regional Council. 2002. p. 11. Retrieved 2 May 2012.