The following persons were elected to serve as chairman of the district council for the following terms: • Thomas Willson – the first chairman who served for "many years" between 1888 and his death in 1901. • Charles Danford Willson – served four terms prior to his death in 1936. • Edward Lawrence Bates (1934–36 and 1938–41) • Ephraim Steen Bates (1936–38) • Thomas Owen Willson (1942–43, 1947–48, 1949–50 and 1952–54) • Danford Willson (1943–44) • Frederick Wellington Neave (1944–45) • Walter Reginald Willson
M.M. (1945–46, 1951–52 and 1958–59) • Leonard Paul Trethewey (1946–47, 1960–63 and 1971–77) • Lester Dudley Buick (1950–51 and 1954–55) • John Rowe Trethewey (1955–58 and 1963–67) • Bruce Steen Bates (1959–60) • Albert Victor Willson (1967–68) • Hartley Glen Willson (1968–71) • Harold George Bennett (1977–78) • Andrew Ernest Howard (1978–81) • Harold George Moffatt (1981–83) • Thomas Douglas Maxwell Willson (1983–) ==References==