The Mayor of Grey, often referred to as the Mayor of Greymouth, officiates over the

Grey District Grey District is a district in the West Coast Region of New Zealand that covers Greymouth, Runanga, Blackball, Cobden, and settlements along the Grey River. It has a land area of . The seat of the Grey District Council, the local government au ...

of New Zealand which is administered by the Grey District Council with its seat in

Greymouth Greymouth () (Māori: ''Māwhera'') is the largest town in the West Coast region in the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the Grey District Council. The population of the whole Grey District is , which accounts for % of the West Coas ...

. The current Mayor is Tania Gibson. Two predecessors to this office were the Mayor of Greymouth, officiating over the

Greymouth Borough The Greymouth Borough was the borough council covering the urban part of Greymouth, New Zealand between and , when it became part of Grey District. History The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867 was passed by the New Zealand Parliament, and this al ...

Council from 1868, and from 1877 the chairman of the

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Council.

History

The Greymouth Borough was constituted in 1868 under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1867. This covered the urban area of Greymouth. After

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had been abolished in 1876, counties were formed in the following year. One of those was

that covered an area around Greymouth. The first chairman of Grey County was

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. Greymouth Borough and Grey County were abolished in the

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, when the areas became part of

. Since then, the head of the administration has been the mayor of Grey.

List of mayors and chairmen

Mayors of Greymouth Borough

The first elections were held in Greymouth Borough on 26 August 1868, when nine councillors were elected. Even before the councillors met for the first time, it was discovered that the legislation required for three of them to retire by rotation on 10 September. All three councillors stood for re-election, but one of them was replaced by

Edward Masters Edward Masters (1838 – 27 November 1881) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Westland, New Zealand. Masters was born in Melbourne in 1838. He was Mayor of Greymouth for several terms. He represented the Grey Valley electorate fr ...

. At the first meeting of the council in the following week, Masters was elected the first Mayor of Greymouth by his fellow councillors.

Barry Dallas Barry Mitchell Dallas (1 December 1926 – 21 April 1992) was a New Zealand politician and doctor. He was twice mayor of Greymouth on the West Coast of New Zealand. Biography Dallas was born in Masterton and attended Wairarapa College. He qual ...

was mayor of Greymouth from 1966 to 1968, and from 1980 until the borough's abolition in 1989. He then became the inaugural mayor of the new Grey District.

Chairmen of the Grey County

Mayors of Grey District

References

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