Rodney County, New Zealand

Rodney County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the North Island, from 1876 until 1989. It came into existence in November 1876, when the provinces were abolished.^[1] In the 1989 local government reforms, it merged with Helensville Borough to create Rodney District.

List of county chairmen

The Rodney County Council was presided over by a chairman. The following is a complete list of officeholders:^[2]^[3]

	Name	Term of office
1	Nathaniel Wilson	1877–1878
2	Henry Palmer	1878–1881
(1)	Nathaniel Wilson	1881–1885
3	Josiah Hill Hudson	1885–1887
4	Edward Browne	1885–1892
5	George Moor	1892
6	John Morison King	1892–1893
7	Thomas Adams Gubb	1893–1899
(1)	Nathaniel Wilson	1899–1905
8	Lewis Philip Becroft	1905–1911
9	George Wyatt Thompson	1911–1917
10	John Alfred Shepherd	1917–1920
11	John Morison	1920–1923
12	Frederick Hodgson	1923–1926
13	William John Schollum	1926–1932
14	Walter Kenneth Becroft	1932–1938
15	William Robinson Grant	1938–1947
(13)	William John Schollum	1947–1953
16	Thomas Oliver Llewellyn Jenkins	1953–1963
17	John James Granville	1963–1973
18	Gordon Mason	1973–1989

Mabbett, H. (1977). The Rock and the Sky: the Story of Rodney County. Auckland: Wilson & Horton. ISBN 0-86864-018-2.
"Rodney's first mayor dies". Stuff. 22 July 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

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