Surveyor-General of New Zealand

Surveyor-General of New Zealand is a position created in 1840 when New Zealand became a separate colony.

List of Surveyors General of New Zealand

Surveyor General	Period in office	Notes
Felton Mathew	Feb 1840 – Dec 1841	Appointed 1839
Charles Whybrow Ligar	Jan 1842 – Feb 1856	From 1852 to 1876 the office of Surveyor-General lapsed. Control of surveys was ceded to the provinces.
John Turnbull Thomson	May 1876 – Oct 1879	Surveyor-General was appointed in 1876 as head of the Department of the Surveyor-General.
James McKerrow	Nov 1879 – Jan 1889	Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General
Stephenson Percy Smith	Feb 1889 – Jun 1901	Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General
Alexander Barron	Jul 1901 – Dec 1901	Secretary for Crown Lands and Acting Surveyor-General
John William Allman Marchant	Jan 1902 – Jun 1906	Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General
Thomas Humphries	Jul 1906 – Jun 1909
John Strauchon	Jul 1909 – Mar 1912
James Mackenzie	Apr 1912 – Mar 1914
Ernest Herbert Wilmot	Apr 1914 – Mar 1920
Thomas Noel Brodrick	Apr 1920 – Oct 1920	Under–Secretary for Lands and Surveyor-General
William Thomas Neill	Oct 1920 – Dec 1928
Maurice Crompton Smith	Oct 1922 – Dec 1922	Acting
John Baird Thompson	Jan 1929 – Mar 1929
Harry Edward Walshe	Apr 1929 – Mar 1946
Russell Gladstone Dick	Apr 1946 – Jun 1962
Robert Philip Gough	Jun 1962 – Jun 1970
William Seaton Boyes	Jul 1970 – Feb 1973
Ian Francis Stirling	Mar 1973 – Jun 1981
Warren Neil Hawkey	Jul 1981 – Sep 1987
William Alexander Robertson	Oct 1987 – Jun 1996	also Director General from Apr 1988
Anthony John Bevin	Jun 1996 – Apr 2004	Acting from Oct 1995 to Jun 1996
Dr Donald Grant	Apr 2004 – Feb 2014
Mark Dyer	Mar 2014 – present

References

• Lists of British, Australian and New Zealand Surveyors-General, Government Geologists... Retrieved 5 September 2016