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Clutha District Council is the territorial authority for the Clutha District of New Zealand. [1] The council is led by the mayor of Clutha, who is currently Bryan Cadogan. There are also 14 ward councillors. [1]
Clutha District is a local government district of southern New Zealand, with its headquarters in the Otago town of Balclutha. Clutha District has a land area of 6,334.47 km 2 (2,445.75 sq mi) and an estimated population of 19,300 as of June 2024.
Clutha District is a territorial authority in the south of the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. First occupied by the Māori, the region saw settlement by European sealers and whalers in the 1830s. They founded Port Molyneux near the mouth of the Clutha River.
The Mayor of Clutha officiates over the Clutha District of New Zealand which is administered by the Clutha District Council. The current mayor is Bryan Cadogan . [ 2 ]
The Clutha District Council is based in Balclutha. The major service centre for the fertile farming region around the lower reaches of the Clutha River, it is also the nearest large town to the Catlins, a scenic region of native forest, wildlife, and rugged coastline.
By 17 October, the Insurance Council of New Zealand had received over 1,000 flood-related insurance claims in Dunedin and Otago. [26] [27] The Clutha District Council's deputy chief executive Jules Witt estimated that flood damage to the district's transport network could cost over more than NZ$1 million, and could take months to repair.
Clutha County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island. Its first meeting was on 4 January 1877 at the Balclutha courthouse. [ 1 ] The offices on the corner of Clyde and Elizabeth Streets in Balclutha were rebuilt in 1934 [ 2 ] and demolished in 2009.
Bryan Alexander Cadogan (born 1959 or 1960) is a New Zealand politician who has served as the mayor of Clutha since 2010. A retailer and former sheep shearer, he was first elected as a Clutha District Councillor in 1998. His younger brother, Tim Cadogan, was the mayor of Central Otago between 2016 and 2024.