title: Mayor of Westport, New Zealand
text: # Mayor of Westport, New Zealand
  
  The Mayor of Westport officiated over the borough of Westport in on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The office was created in 1873 when Westport was gazetted as a borough by the Nelson Provincial Council, and ceased with the 1989 local government reforms, when Westport Borough, Buller County and Inangahua County merged to form Buller District. The first mayor of Westport was James Wilson Humphrey.
  
  ## List of mayors
  
  The following is a complete list of the mayors of Westport:
  
  | | Name | Term of office |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1 | James Wilson Humphrey | 1873–1874 |
  | 2 | Robert Whyte | 1874–1876 |
  | 3 | John Munro | 1876–1878 |
  | (2) | Robert Whyte (2nd time) | 1878 |
  | 4 | William Reeve Haselden | 1878–1880 |
  | (3) | John Munro (2nd time) | 1880–1882 |
  | (4) | William Reeve Haselden (2nd time) | 1882–1884 |
  | 5 | John Hughes | 1884–1889 |
  | 6 | James Suisted | 1889–1890 |
  | 7 | John Marshall | 1890–1892 |
  | (6) | James Suisted (2nd time) | 1892–1894 |
  | 8 | Hans Larsen | 1894–1898 |
  | 9 | James Colvin | 1898–1900 |
  | 10 | James Scanlon | 1900–1903 |
  | 11 | Samuel James Riley | 1903–1904 |
  | 12 | Fergus Ferguson Munro | 1904–1905 |
  | 13 | George Hargreaves Gothard | 1905–1908 |
  | 14 | James Horace Greenwood | 1908–1913 |
  | 15 | Arthur Leaver | 1913–1920 |
  | 16 | John Menzies | 1920–1926 |
  | 17 | Charles Greenland | 1926 |
  | 18 | James Hamilton Harkness | 1927–1933 |
  | 19 | John Kilkenny | 1933–1939 |
  | 20 | John Robertson | 1939–1953 |
  | 21 | James Hunter | 1953–1956 |
  | 22 | John Watson | 1956–1968 |
  | 23 | Bill Craddock | 1968–1977 |
  | 24 | Jack Dellaca | 1977–1983 |
  | 25 | Pat O'Dea | 1983–1989 |
  