The Lyttelton Harbour Board was established on 10 January 1877 to manage

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. The harbour had previously been managed by the Canterbury Provincial Council, but provincial government ceased to exist on 1 January 1877. The harbour board was governed by members elected during

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. Lyttelton Harbour Board was disestablished through the

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, with its functions transferred to the Lyttelton Port Company. The Lyttelton Harbour Board held its first meeting on 18 January 1877. The ten inaugural members were

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, Peter Cunningham, Richard James Strachan Harman, David Craig,

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, and John T. Rouse. Richardson was unanimously elected as the inaugural chairman. The table below shows the original membership of the harbour board: Cunningham resigned in late 1877 and was replaced by Charles Wesley Turner, the deputy chair of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce.

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was elected mayor of Lyttelton in December 1877 and thus replaced Rouse. Both attended their first meeting in December 1877.

List of chairman

The Lyttelton Harbour Board had the following chairmen:

Notes

References

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