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Mayor of Grey

Mayor of Grey District
IncumbentTania Gibsonsince 31 October 2019
Her Worship the Mayor
Greymouth
Three years, renewable
Barry Dallas
1989
Allan Gibson
$116,626
Official website

The Grey District mayor, often referred to as the mayor of Greymouth, officiates over the Grey District of New Zealand which is administered by the Grey District Council, with its seat in Greymouth. The current mayor is Tania Gibson. Two predecessors to this office were the mayor of Greymouth, officiating over the Greymouth Borough Council from 1868, and from 1877 the chairman of the Grey County Council.

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

After provincial government had been abolished in 1876, counties were formed in the following year. One of those was Grey County that covered an area around Greymouth. The first chairman of Grey County was Arthur Guinness.

Greymouth Borough and Grey County were abolished in the 1989 local government reforms, when the areas became part of Grey District. Since then, the head of the administration has been the mayor of Grey.

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. 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 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.

	Name	Term	Notes
1	Edward Masters	1868–1870
2	Joseph Kilgour	1870
3	Edward Wickes	1871–1872
4	George Glen	1873
5	William Simpson Smith	1874
6	George William Moss	1875–1876	First ratepayer election
7	Francis Hamilton	1877–1878
8	Richard Nancarrow	1879–1881
9	James Barkley	1882–1883
10	Fritz Carl Dupre	1884
11	John Griffiths Thomas	1885
(8)	Richard Nancarrow	1886	second period
12	Joseph Petrie	1887–1888	Mayor paid £100 annually;last borough in New Zealand to pay
13	John Mitchell	1889–1890
14	Andrew Matheson	1891–1892
15	William Robert Kettle	1893–1894
16	Frederick Barrington Waters	1894
17	Felix Campbell	1894–1895
18	Jacob Theodore Skoglund	1896–1898
(14)	Andrew Matheson	1899–1903	second period
19	Jesse Steer	1903–1904
20	James Andrew Petrie	1904–1907
(12)	Joseph Petrie	1907–1908	second period
21	Thomas Coates	1908–1910
22	Alfred Charles Russell	1910–1912
23	George Edward Perkins	1912–1917
24	James Daniel Lynch	1917–1923
25	William Henry Parfitt	1923–1927
26	John Webber Greenslade	1927–1935	9 years service
27	William Meldrum	1935–1938
28	Fred Kitchingham	1938–1947	9 years service
29	Fred Boustridge	1947–1950
30	Frederick Lovell Turley	1950–1953
31	Frederick William Baillie	1954–1965	12 years service
32	Barry Dallas	1965–1968
33	Ossie Jackson	1968–1980	12 years service
(32)	Barry Dallas	1980–1989	second period

Grey County chairmen

	Name	Term	Notes
1	Barry Dallas	1989–1991	14 years service of Greymouth and Grey District
2	Ron Hibbs	1991–1998
3	Kevin Brown	1998–2004
4	Tony Kokshoorn	2004–2019	15 years service. Longest-serving mayor of Greymouth and Grey District
5	Tania Gibson	2019–present	Greymouth's first woman mayor

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