LIST OF COLONIAL TREASURERS, ASSESSORS, VALUATORS AND COMMISSIONERS

Year Post Name of Officer
1844 9 May   Colonial Treasurer R. M. MARTIN
1845 7 August - 1846 Acting Colonial Treasurer W. J. MERCER
1847 1 July - 1848 Assessor and Collector of Police Rates G. E. HARRISON and Charles MAY
1849 21 June - 1854 Assessor and Collector of Police Rates D. R. CALDWELL and Charles MAY
1855   Assessor and Collector of Police Rates Charles MAY
1856 28 November   Assessor and Collector of Police and Lighting Rates G. DUDDELL and J. C. POWER
1857 9 May - 1860 Colonial Treasurer Frederick H.A. FORTH
1857 19 July   Collector of Police and Lighting Rates G. DUDDELL
1858 1 January - 1859 Collector of Police and Lighting Rates Alexander GRAND-PRE
1860 - 1863 Assessor and Collector of Police and Lighting Rates (This office was abolished from 30.06.1863 and the duties were modified and transferred to the Colonial Treasury.) Alexander GRAND-PRE
1864 - 1867 Valuator of Property for the Police and Lighting Rates James COLLINS
1868   Valuator of House Property C. H. HORDEN
1869 - 1870 Valuator of Police and Lighting Rates W. PRESTAGE
1871   Valuator of Police and Lighting Rates W. PRESTAGE and R. G. ALFORD
1872   Valuator of Police and Lighting Rates R. G. ALFORD
1873 - 1876 Police Rate Valuator A. R. MADAR and John GERRARD
1877   Police Rate Valuator A. R. MADAR
1878   Police Rate Valuator P. M. ALVES
1879   Police Rate Valuator G. L. TOMLIN
1880 - 1881 Police Rate Valuator P. M. ALVES
1882   Colonial Treasurer The Hon. James RUSSELL
1883 - 1886 Colonial Treasurer The Hon. Alfred LISTER
1887   Assessor of Municipal Rates Augustus Shelton HOOPER
1888   Assessor of Rates Augustus Shelton HOOPER
1889 12 October - 1920 Assessor of Rates Arthur CHAPMAN, V.D. (Retired on 05.10.1920)
1921 - 1931 Assessor of Rates Charles MacIlvaine MESSER, O.B.E. (Retired on 28.06.1931)
1931 28 June - 1937 Assessor of Rates Edwin TAYLOR, C.M.G. (Retired on 18.11.1937)
1938 1 January - 1946 Assessor of Rates Julius RING, F.R.I.C.S., A.M.I. STRU.E., A.M.I. MECH. E.
1947 31 July - 1951 Commissioner of Rating and Valuation Julius RING, F.R.I.C.S., A.M.I. STRU.E., A.M.I. MECH. E.
1951 15 April - 1967 Commissioner of Rating and Valuation Frederick SHANKS, O.B.E., J.P., BSc., F.R.I.C.S.
1967 28 April - 1971 Commissioner of Rating and Valuation Norman COOKE, J.P., F.R.I.C.S., F.R.V.A.
1971 16 September - 1984 Commissioner of Rating and Valuation Raymond Alfred FRY, O.B.E., E.D., J.P., F.R.I.C.S., F.R.V.A.
1984 30 June - 1989 Commissioner of Rating and Valuation Gordon Penrhyn BLENKINSOP, I.S.O., J.P., F.C.A., A.C.I.S.
1989 16 October - Present Commissioner of Rating and Valuation Barry Jonathan Clayton WOODROFFE, I.S.O., J.P., F.R.I.C.S., F.H.K.I.S.