Mayor of Timaru

This is a list of mayors of Timaru, New Zealand, and includes the former Timaru Borough and the current Timaru District Council.

List of mayors of Timaru

There have been 39 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868. The current mayor is Damon Odey, who was first elected in the 2013 local elections.

	Name	Term	Notes
1	Samuel Hewlings	1868–1870
2	Henry Cain	1870–1873
3	George Cliff	1873–1875
4	James Sutter	1875–1876
(3)	George Cliff	1876–1879	second term
(4)	James Sutter	1879–1882	second term
5	John Jackson	1882–1886
6	Moss Jonas	1886–1888
7	David Mitchell Ross	1888–1891
8	Andrew Sherratt	1891–1893
9	Jacob Hill	1893–1896
10	John James Grandi	1896–1898
11	James Stephen Keith	1898–1899
12	John Hole	1899–1901
13	Charles Macintosh	1901–1902
14	James Craigie, MLC	1902–1912
15	Tom Hawkey	1912–1913
16	William Angland	1913–1914
17	Edwin Rowland Guinness	1914–1917
18	James Maling	1917–1919
19	William Chute Raymond	1919–1921
20	Frank Rolleston	1921–1923
21	George John Wallace	1923–1929
(16)	William Angland	1929–1931	second term
22	Thomas W. Satterthwaite	1931–1936
23	Percy Vinnell	1936–1938	died 1938
24	Percy Barnes Foote	1938
25	William Glenholme Tweedy	1938–1942
26	Alfred Ernest Stanley Hanan	1942–1950
27	William Leslie Richards	1950–1953
28	R. E. White	1953–1959
29	Muriel Ernesta Hilton (Mrs)	1959–1962	née Venn; MBE 1976
30	Charles Edward Thomson	1962–1965
31	Durham Robert Dowell	1965–1971
32	Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett	1971	MNZM 1996
33	Charles Russell Hervey	1971–1977	QSO 1982
(32)	Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett	1977–1982	second term
34	Mrs Helene D.L. McIver	1982–1986
35	David Arthur John Walker	1986–1989
36	Archibald Campbell "Archie" Houstoun	1989–1992	MBE 1992
37	Wynne Archdall Raymond	1992–2004
38	Jane Mary (Janie) Annear (Mrs)	2004–2013	ONZM 2014
39	Damon Odey	2013–present