{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2014}} '''Alister Murray Linton''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE}} (12 March 1904 – 15 August 1980) was a New Zealand surveyor, local politician, land officer, community leader, horticulturist and broadcaster.

==Biography== He was born in Halcombe, Manawatu/Horowhenua, New Zealand on 12 March 1904.<ref name="DNZB Linton">{{DNZB|last=Rorke|first=Jinty|id=5l11|title=Alister Murray Linton|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref>

He was a resident of Rotorua, where he was a councillor for six years, then Mayor for 18 years from 1953 to 1971. He stood in the {{NZ election link year|1957}} general election in the {{NZ electorate link|Rotorua}} electorate for the National Party, but was defeated by Labour's Ray Boord.

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1965 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=43531 |date=29 December 1964 |page=44 |supp=y }}</ref>

Linton died in Rotorua in 1980,<ref name="DNZB Linton"/> and was buried at Kauae Cemetery in Ngongotahā.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geo.rdc.govt.nz/Geocortex/Essentials/External/REST/TempFiles/CemeteryPlot.pdf?guid=4a2dfe06-f7f3-4ba3-9ea9-c57b0204701e&contentType=application%2Fpdf |title=Cemetery database report |date= |website= |publisher=Rotorua District Council |accessdate=17 January 2015}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef | before=Alexander Moncur}} {{s-ttl | title=Mayor of Rotorua|years= 1953–1971}} {{s-aft | after = Ray Boord}} {{end}} {{Authority control}}

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