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

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Surveyor general Period in office Notes
Felton Mathew February 1840 – December 1841 Appointed 1839
Charles Whybrow Ligar January 1842 – February 1856 From 1852 to 1876 the office of Surveyor-General lapsed. Control of surveys was ceded to the provinces.
John Turnbull Thomson May 1876 – October 1879 Surveyor-General was appointed in 1876 as head of the Department of the Surveyor-General.
James McKerrow November 1879 – January 1889 Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General
Stephenson Percy Smith February 1889 – June 1901 Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General
Alexander Barron July 1901 – December 1901 Secretary for Crown Lands and Acting Surveyor-General
John William Allman Marchant January 1902 – June 1906 Secretary for Crown Lands and Surveyor-General
Thomas Humphries July 1906 – June 1909
John Strauchon July 1909 – Mar 1912
James Mackenzie April 1912 – Mar 1914
Ernest Herbert Wilmot April 1914 – Mar 1920
Thomas Noel Brodrick April 1920 – October 1920 Under-Secretary for Lands and Surveyor-General
William Thomas Neill October 1920 – December 1928
Maurice Crompton Smith October 1922 – December 1922 Acting
John Baird Thompson January 1929 – Mar 1929
Harry Edward Walshe April 1929 – Mar 1946
Russell Gladstone Dick April 1946 – June 1962
Robert Philip Gough June 1962 – June 1970
William Seaton Boyes July 1970 – February 1973
Ian Francis Stirling Mar 1973 – June 1981
Warren Neil Hawkey July 1981 – September 1987
William Alexander Robertson October 1987 – June 1996 also Director-General from April 1988
Anthony John Bevin June 1996 – April 2004 Acting from October 1995 to June 1996
Dr Donald Grant April 2004 – February 2014
Mark Dyer[1] Mar 2014 – August 2018
Anselm Haanen[2] August 2018 – present Acting from August 2018 to July 2019

References

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