Ashburton Borough Centenary/And Those Who Served

Thomas Bullock 1878-9, Hugo Friedlander 1879-81, 1890-2, 1898-01, Donald Williamson 1881-4, Rudolph Friedlander 1884-6, Thomas Sealy 1886-7, Alfred Harrison 1887-8, David Thomas 1888-90, Richard Bird 1892-3, John Orr 1893-4, Joseph Sealy 1894-7, Charles Reid 1897-8, William H. Collins 1901-3, Henry Davis 1903-15, Robert Galbraith 1915-31, Robert Kerr 1931, William H. Woods 1931-8, George Inglis Miller 1938-40, John Connor 1940-4, Ernest Cook Bathurst 1944-56, Archibald A. McDonald 1956-9, John Davidson 1959-68. George Glassey 1968-71, Darcy O. Digby 1971-77, Geoffrey J. Geering 1977 to present.

Thomas Bullock 1880, James Campbell 1878-9, Rudolph Friedlander 1878, 1886-8, 1889, Joseph Ivess 1878-9, 1880-3, Andrew Orr 1878-80, 1882-5, George Parkin 1878-82, Edward Saunders 1878-80, Robert William Shearman 1878-9, Donald Williamson 1878, 1885-91, G. W. St. Hill 1879-84, Weymouth Roberts 1878-83, 1885-7, George M. Robinson 1879-81, Alfred Harrison 1880-7, Hugo Friedlander 1881-2, 1887-90, 1903-5, 1907-8, John Orr 1881-5, 1891-3, 1895-9, Richard Bird 1882-7, 1888-92, 1894-8, S. B. Nelson 1882-5, William Leggett 1883-5, Thomas Sealy 1883-6, 1887-90, G. W. Jameson 1884-5, David Thomas 1884-8, 1891-1900, 1903-5, 1907-8, Alexander Craighead 1885-7, Thomas Quill 1885-6, Charles Reid 1885-8, 1895-7, 1901-7. Joshua Tucker 1885, 1886-9, John Allot Caygill 1886, Albert Roberts 1887-8, George Francis Scott 1887-90, William Sparrow 1887, James Keir 1888-91, Daniel McFarlane 1888-90, C. M. Brooke 1889-91, 1894-7, R. M. Cuthbertson 1889-97, H. G. Flower 1890-4, E. J. Paul 1890-3, 1894-9, 1899-1901, Joseph Sealy 1890-4, 1898-1901, Henry Maxwell Jones 1891-4, 1899-1903, John Moore Tweed 1891-2, 1894-5, William Anderson 1892-4, James Charles Duncan 1892-3, W. H. Collins 1893-9, H. H. Stephens 1893-4, W. H. Rule 1894-5, J. W. Baker, 1895-8. Henry Davis 1897-1903, E. W. Hanmer 1897-9. J. H. Maynard 1898-1900, J. H. Pauling 1898-1900, John Davison 1899–1915, William Jolliffe 1899-1900, George W. Andrews 1900-3, 1905-7, 1915-7, Robert Clark 1900-11, J. W. Timmins 1900-6, Henry Willis 1900-3, Robert Alcorn 1901-3, H. A. MacKay 1903-5, George Wallace 1903-5, Albert Whitaker 1903-4, John Wilson 1903, Albert Crum 1904-5, F. Z. D. Ferriman 1905-7, 1910–34, A. A. Orr 1905-10, W. J. Silcock 1905-7, Peter Stewart 1905-12, 1913-4, T. Rollitt 1906-7, T. F. Gibson 1907-11, C. W. Nicoll 1907-13, D. Wood 1907-13, M. J. Burgess 1908-11, W. G. Hillier 1908-13, 1917-27, G. H. D. Hefford 1911-7, William McRae 1911-3, M. Priest 1911-5, H. A. Lloyd 1912-7, G .H. Buchanan 1913-9, J. B. Christian 1913-7., P. L. Orr 1913-7, H. R. C. McElrea 1914-25, 1931-7, Robert Kerr 1915-31, 1931-3, 1934-9, A. J. Grigg 1917-21, John Watson 1917-21, 1923-33, H. A. Vesty 1917-21, Frederick Watt 1917-23, W. C. J. Osman 1919-21, J. W. Bowden 1921-7, Ernest Childs 1921-3, Robert M. Dunlop 1921-7, William Page 1921-3, William Henry Robinson 1921-3, 1925-37, W. H. Woods Thompson 1923-4, 1927-38, 1941-4, David Fergusson Keir 1924-5, James Donn 1925-7, Fred N. Seldon 1925-33, John McElhinney 1927-31, 1937-8, William Hocken Rundle 1927-35, F. J. E. Smallbone 1927-36. Eric Hamilton Orr 1929-38, Elias Buchanan 1933-41, John Connor 1933-40, Alfred Lexington Jones 1933-5, John Thomas Pratley 1933-8, Samuel Mitchell 1935-41, 1947-50, Joseph Shaw 1935-41, George Inglis Miller 1937-8, Harold William Sherratt 1937-46, Alfred Henry Finn 1938-44, Archibald A. McDonald 1938-56, Sidney Osborne 1938-41, Harold W. Smallbone 1938-45, Ernest Cook Bathurst 1939-44, William Henry Amos 1941-7, Herbert Gordon Ferrier 1941-50, William Stewart Kerr 1941-5, William Henry Sarney 1941-7, Archibald Hutton Todd 1941-4, Sidney William Gower 1944-7, Johnson Keal Mather 1944-7, Joseph Henry Browne 1944-6, Keith David MclIlraith 1945-7, 1959-65, C. H. F. Maynard 1945-53, Albert Charles Wilson 1945-7, Frederick Arthur Coldicott 1946-55, James Russell Richardson 1946-56, Keith Lewis Anderson 1947-56, Thomas Lionel Crooks 1947-50, John Bathgate 1947-50, Howard Francis McElrea 1947-53, Thomas Phillips 1947-53, William Brown Elwood 1950-9, Lawrence Edward Kerr 1950-65, ​Archibald Andrew Todd 1950-3, William King Waters 1950-6, Eric Arthur Cockroft 1953-6, William Cyril Burton 1953-62, Darcy Octavius Digby 1953-9, 1962-8, Alan Douglas Lowe 1953-6, Andrew Irwin Miller 1953-9, George Glassey 1955-9, 1962-7, Eric Warren Wilkinson 1956-65, Edmund Gavin Catherwood 1959-62, 1974-77, Cuthbert Denham 1956-9, Thomas Arthur Lane 1956-71, Leonard Roderick McNally 1956-65, 1967-77, Vernon George Rule 1956-65, John Joseph McBrearty 1959-62, Harold Gordon Patterson 1959-62, Sidney Dennes Porter 1959–62, Edith Jessie Childs 1962-4, Bruce William Smallbone 1962-74, Leslie Allan Todd 1962-8, Maurice George Wall 1962 to present, Norman Lindsay 1965-74, Robert Macklan 1965-7, David Todd Mitchell 1965-71, Ronald Hulme 1965-7, Clifford Raynor Horrell 1965-71, Ronald Douglas Bryant 1967-77, John Notley Millar 1968-71, Ivan James Nicolson 1968 to present, Edwin James von Tunzelmann 1968-77, Ernest Richard Cochrane 1971-78, Geoffrey John Geering 1971-74, Alan Leslie McIntosh 1971 to present, Donald Stuart McKenzie 1971 to present, Beatrice Josephine Oakley 1971-75, 1977 to present, William Russell Anstiss 1974 to present, Arti Toro Iwi Kau Keepa 1974 to present, Joy Myrtle Harris 1977 to present, John Henry Millichamp 1977 to present, Bevan Thomas Stroud 1977 to present, Edward Joseph Wood 1977 to present.

Sterling Service:

From when Mr I. S. Watson left for his new appointment the Acting Town Clerk, Mr John Collins, has continued his sound and efficient services to the Borough, for which ample credit is due to him.

Scotter says that as late as 1871 a newspaper account dismissed the township as “a flourishing place with an hotel, a store and a lock-up.” At that time the New Inn (Thomas and John Turton) was the only hotel; William Turton had opened a store; and Turton’s old hotel had been converted into a combined Post and Telegraph Office, Magistrate’s Court and Police Headquarters. (How long was it really before Ashburton became a place to go to rather than just to go through?)