Margaret Evans (mayor)
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[]
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]
Honours and awards[]
In 1990, Evans received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal,[1] and in 1993 she was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.[3] In the 1995 New Year Honours, Evans was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to local government.[4]
Notes[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 234.
- ^ "The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "No. 53894". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1994. p. 34.
References[]
- 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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