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
| 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
|
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