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The Lyttelton Harbour Board was established on 10 January 1877 to manage
Lyttelton Harbour
Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō is one of two major inlets in Banks Peninsula, on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand; the other is Akaroa Harbour on the southern coast. It enters from the northern coast of the peninsula, heading in a pred ...
. The harbour had previously been managed by the
Canterbury Provincial Council
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History
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, but provincial government ceased to exist on 1 January 1877. The harbour board was governed by members elected during
local elections
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. Lyttelton Harbour Board was disestablished through the
1989 local government reforms
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Backg ...
, with its functions transferred to the
Lyttelton Port Company.
The Lyttelton Harbour Board held its first meeting on 18 January 1877. The ten inaugural members were
Edward Richardson
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,
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Hugh Murray-Aynsley
Hugh Percy Murray–Aynsley (8 October 1828 – 22 February 1917) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Early life
Murray-Aynsley was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1828. His father was John Murray-Aynsley (17 ...
, Peter Cunningham,
Richard James Strachan Harman
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, David Craig,
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Edward George Wright
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,
Henry Sawtell
Henry Sawtell (1832 – 19 June 1913) was Mayor of Christchurch 1871–1872.
Early life
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, and John T. Rouse. Richardson was unanimously elected as the inaugural chairman.
The table below shows the original membership of the harbour board:
Cunningham resigned in late 1877 and was replaced by Charles Wesley Turner, the deputy chair of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce.
Harry Allwright
Harry Allwright (1837 – 18 July 1892) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Canterbury, New Zealand. A painter and glazier by trade, he came out with his parents and siblings in the '' Cressy'' in 1850, one of the First Four Ships. He took ...
was elected mayor of Lyttelton in December 1877 and thus replaced Rouse. Both attended their first meeting in December 1877.
List of chairman
![Hugo Friedlander, ca 1910](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Hugo_Friedlander%2C_ca_1910.jpg)
The Lyttelton Harbour Board had the following chairmen:
Notes
References
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Christchurch
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