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Waipā District Council (Māori: Te Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Waipa) [citation needed] is the territorial authority for the Waipā District of New Zealand. [ 1 ] The council consists of 14 elected members: the mayor of Waipā , Susan O'Regan , and 13 ward councillors.
The district is south and south-east of the city of Hamilton. It has five wards: Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Pirongia, Maungatautari and Kakepuku. Although the official name remains Waipa District, [3] the council sought in 2020 a simpler means of changing to Waipā District, which is the orthographic form it uses. [4]
The referendums were spurred by the ruling National-led coalition government's passing of the Local Government (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Act 2024, reinstating the requirement that councils must hold referendums before establishing Māori wards that the previous Labour government had removed.
It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it. Te Awamutu is located some 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Hamilton on State Highway 3, one of the two main routes south from Auckland and Hamilton.
Bruce Berquist was elected the first mayor of Waipā District in 1989, defeating chief executive of Hamilton Airport, Barry O'Connor. [1] Berquist stood down at the 1995 local-body elections, when the mayoralty was contested by Te Miro farmer John Hewitt and the National Party MP Katherine O'Regan. Most pundits considered that O'Regan would win ...
Territorial authorities in Waikato region before 2010. The Waikato (/ ˈ w aɪ k ɑː t ɔː /) is a region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato District, Waipa District, Matamata-Piako District, South Waikato District and Hamilton City, as well as Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the northern King Country, much of the Taupō District, and parts of the Rotorua Lakes ...
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O'Regan was born and raised in Rukuhia.Her mother was Katherine O'Regan, a National MP who represented Waipa.She boarded at Waikato Diocesan School in Hamilton [1] and King's College in Auckland, and later graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts.