Margaret Evans (mayor)

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Evans in 1997

Margaret Anne Evans CBE JP (born 31 August 1944) is a New Zealand local-body politician. She was the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand from 1989 to 1998, succeeding Ross Jansen.

Biography[edit]

Evans was born in Feilding on 31 August 1944, and was educated at New Plymouth Girls' High School.[1] She studied at the University of Waikato in 1964.[1]

First elected to the Hamilton City Council in 1974, Evans was a city councillor until 1989, including a period as deputy mayor from 1983 to 1988.[1] She was elected mayor of Hamilton in 1989.[1] She was also a member of the Auckland Harbour Board between 1986 and 1989, and the Waikato Regional Council from 1989 until 1992.[1] Evans also served on the Waikato Electricity Authority and the Council of the University of Waikato.[1]

Evans was a member of the New Zealand Party, founded by businessman Bob Jones, and she stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in the Hamilton East electorate in the 1984 election.[2]

In 2003 Evans completed a master's thesis at the University of Waikato, on the role of mayor in New Zealand.[3]

Honours and awards[edit]

In 1990, Evans received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal,[1] and in 1993 she was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.[4] In the 1995 New Year Honours, Evans was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to local government.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 135. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
  2. ^ Norton 1988, p. 234.
  3. ^ Evans, Margaret (2003). The role of the mayor in New Zealand (Masters thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/8242.
  4. ^ "The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  5. ^ "No. 53894". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1994. p. 34.

Sources[edit]

  • Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.

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