Golden Bay County

{{Short description|Former county of New Zealand}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox Former Subdivision |conventional_long_name = Golden Bay County |common_name = Golden Bay County |subdivision = [[Counties of New Zealand|County]] |nation = [[New Zealand]] |p1 = |s1 = |flag_s1 = |year_start = 1956 |event_end = |year_end = 1989 |date_end = |image_coat = |image_map = |capital = |stat_area1 = |stat_pop1 = |stat_year1 = |category= |today = [[Tasman District]] |footnotes = }} '''Golden Bay County''' was one of the [[counties of New Zealand]] on the [[South Island]].

During the period 1853 to 1876, the area that would become Golden Bay County was administered as part of [[Nelson Province]]. With the [[Provinces of New Zealand#Abolition of Provinces Act 1876|Abolition of Provinces Act 1876]], the areas bordering [[Golden Bay / Mohua|Golden Bay]] (an arm of the [[Tasman Sea]]) were placed under the administration of newly formed [[Collingwood County]], effective 1 January 1877.

In 1903, the [[New Zealand Government]] voted to reduce the size of Collingwood County to just its western Aorere region, with the remaining eastern region being constituted as [[Takaka County]], effective April 1904.<ref name=TakakaCreated>{{cite web |url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_bill/ccb19031431279/ccb19031431279.html |title=Collingwood County Bill 1903 (143–1) (Local) |work=[[New Zealand Government]] |date=1903 |access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref> The two counties were re-amalgamated in 1956 to form Golden Bay County.<ref name=GoldenBayCreated>{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Collingwood County Council |work=National Register of Archives and Manuscripts |publisher=[[Archives New Zealand]] |date=4 August 2006 |url=http://www.nram.govt.nz/record.php?id=12658&parent=nramindexbyvolume&volume=Y |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016215440/http://www.nram.govt.nz/record.php?id=12658&parent=nramindexbyvolume&volume=Y |archivedate=16 October 2008 |access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Ann Lewis in 2025.jpg|thumb|upright|Ann Lewis in 2025]] Golden Bay County existed until the [[1989 New Zealand local government reforms|1989 local government reforms]], when the [[Tasman District]] was formed through the amalgamation of [[Murchison County, New Zealand|Murchison County]], [[Waimea County]] and [[Richmond Borough, New Zealand|Richmond Borough]] administrative areas in circa April 1989.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/interactive/28965/local-government-boundaries |title=Nelson region – Government |first=Carl |last=Walrond |work=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |publisher=[[Ministry for Culture and Heritage|New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage]] |date=3 August 2015 |access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref><ref name=":55">{{Cite journal |date=12 December 1988 |title=Motueka Borough, Richmond Borough and Waimea County Union Order 1988 |url=https://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1988/214/28.pdf |journal=The New Zealand Gazette |issue=28 |pages=5384}}</ref> Golden Bay County joined Tasman District on 1 November 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=1989 Golden Bay County Council Minute Book |url=https://heritage.tasmanlibraries.govt.nz/nodes/view/7212 |publisher=Tasman District Libraries |access-date=24 May 2026 |pages=200}}</ref>

Chairpersons included Rodney Nees<ref>{{cite news |title=Burke gets only S.I. knighthood |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19891230.2.24 |access-date=24 May 2026 |work=[[The Press]] |date=30 December 1989 |page=3}}</ref> and [[Philip Woollaston]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Prebble given S.O.E.s |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19900201.2.7 |access-date=24 May 2026 |work=[[The Press]] |date=1 February 1990 |page=1}}</ref> The last chairperson of Golden Bay County Council was Ann Lewis, who was first elected to the council in the 1980 local elections, and was chair for the final term from 1986 to 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Lewis QSM |url=https://www.theprow.org.nz/people/women-decision-makers-tasman-1944-2018/ann-lewis-qsm/ |publisher=The Prow |access-date=3 September 2025}}</ref>

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[[Category:Counties of New Zealand]] [[Category:Politics of the Tasman District]] [[Category:Golden Bay]] [[Category:1956 establishments in New Zealand]] [[Category:1989 disestablishments in New Zealand]]