Last updated: Rāmere, 11 Hereturikōkā, 2023 |
Friday, 11 August 2023
Protectorate of Aborigines
| G Clarke (Protector/Chief Protector) |
May 1840 – March 1846 |
Native Department
| H Halse (acting Native Secretary) |
1861 – 1863 |
| E Shortland (Native Secretary) |
1863 – 1864 |
| H Halse (acting Native Secretary) |
1864 – 1865 |
| W Rolleston (Under-Secretary) |
June 1865 – May 1868 |
| G S Cooper |
1868 – 1871 |
| H Halse (acting) |
1871 – 1873 |
| H T Clarke |
1873 – February 1879 |
| T W Lewis |
March 1879 – December 1891 |
| W J Morpeth (acting) |
December 1891 – December 1892 |
Native Department and Department of Māori Affairs
| Judge Edgar (Under-Secretary) |
June 1906 – January 1907 |
| Judge T W Fisher |
February 1907 – October 1916 |
| C B Jordan |
November 1916 – December 1921 |
| Judge R N Jones |
January 1922 – November 1933 |
| P G Peace |
December 1933 – May 1935 |
| O N Campbell |
May 1935 – February 1944 |
| Judge G P Shepherd |
February 1944 – September 1948 |
| *T T Ropiha (Secretary from 1953) |
September 1948 – October 1957 |
| M Sullivan |
October 1957 – January 1960 |
| J K Hunn |
January 1960 – July 1963 |
| B E Souter (acting) |
July 1963 – October 1963 |
| J M McEwen |
October 1963 – February 1975 |
| I W Apperly |
February 1975 – November 1977 |
| *I P Puketapu |
November 1977 – December 1983 |
| *T M Reedy |
December 1983 – September 1989 |
Iwi Transition Agency - Te Tira Ahu Iwi
Ministry of Māori Affairs - Manatū Māori
| *J H Clarke |
July 1989 – December 1991 |
Te Puni Kōkiri - Ministry of Māori Development
| *H T Gardiner |
January 1992 – October 1995 |
| *R H Love |
December 1995 – November 2000 |
| *L Comer |
February 2001 – September 2012 |
| *M Hippolite |
December 2012 – July 2019 |
| *D Samuels |
September 2019 – current |
* Indicates person of Māori descent