Commissioner of Public Works (South Australia)
List of Commissioner of Public Works of South Australia

Commissioner of Public Works (South Australia)

Section Title: List of Commissioner of Public Works of South Australia
Table Section Text: None

Order	Minister	Party	Premier	Title	Term start	Term end	Term in office

1	Arthur Freeling	No Party	Finniss	Commissioner of Public Works	24 October 1856	20 March 1857	147 days

2	Samuel Davenport	20 March 1857	21 August 1857	154 days

3	Arthur Blyth	Baker	21 August 1857	1 September 1857	11 days

n/a	Samuel Davenport	Torrens	1 September 1857	30 September 1857	29 days

4	Thomas Reynolds	Hanson	30 September 1857	12 June 1858	255 days

n/a	Arthur Blyth	12 June 1858	9 May 1860	1 year, 332 days

5	Alexander Hay	Reynolds	9 May 1860	8 October 1861	1 year, 152 days

6	Philip Santo	Waterhouse	8 October 1861	17 October 1861	9 days

7	John Lindsay	17 October 1861	19 February 1862	125 days

8	William Milne	19 February 1862	4 July 1863	1 year, 135 days

9	William Townsend	Dutton	4 July 1863	15 July 1863	11 days

n/a	Philip Santo	Ayers	15 July 1863	4 August 1864	1 year, 20 days

n/a	William Milne	Blyth	4 August 1864	22 March 1865	230 days

10	Francis Dutton	Dutton	22 March 1865	20 September 1865	182 days

n/a	Philip Santo	Ayers	20 September 1865	23 October 1865	33 days

11	Thomas English	Hart	23 October 1865	28 March 1866	1 year, 192 days

Boucaut	28 March 1866	3 May 1867

n/a	Philip Santo	Ayers	3 May 1867	24 September 1868	1 year, 144 days

12	William Everard	Hart	24 September 1868	12 October 1868	18 days

n/a	Philip Santo	Ayers	13 October 1868	3 November 1868	21 days

13	John Colton	Strangways	3 November 1868	12 May 1870	1 year, 190 days

14	Friedrich Krichauff	12 May 1870	30 May 1870	18 days

15	John Carr	Hart	30 May 1870	10 November 1871	1 year, 237 days

Blyth	10 November 1871	22 January 1872

16	James Ramsay	Ayers	22 January 1872	4 March 1872	42 days

17	Wentworth Cavenagh	4 March 1872	22 July 1873	1 year, 140 days

18	Henry Bright	Blyth	22 July 1873	3 June 1875	1 year, 316 days

19	William West-Erskine	Boucaut	3 June 1875	2 February 1876	244 days

20	James Boucaut	2 February 1876	6 June 1876	125 days

21	John Colton	Colton	6 June 1876	26 October 1877	1 year, 142 days

22	George Hawker	Boucaut	26 October 1877	27 September 1878	3 years, 241 days

Morgan	27 September 1878	24 June 1881

n/a	James Ramsay	Bray	24 June 1881	23 April 1884	2 years, 304 days

23	David Bower	23 April 1884	16 June 1884	54 days

24	Thomas Playford II	Colton	16 June 1884	4 February 1885	233 days

25	Jenkin Coles	4 February 1885	16 June 1885	132 days

26	John Darling	Downer	16 June 1885	14 October 1885	120 days

27	John Spence	14 October 1885	8 June 1886	237 days

28	Luke Furner	8 June 1886	11 June 1887	1 year, 3 days

29	Alfred Catt	Playford II	11 June 1887	27 June 1889	2 years, 16 days

30	James Howe	Cockburn	27 June 1889	2 May 1890	309 days

31	Thomas Burgoyne	2 May 1890	19 August 1890	109 days

32	William Rounsevell	Playford II	19 August 1890	6 January 1892	1 year, 140 days

33	John Jenkins	6 January 1892	21 June 1892	167 days

34	Andrew Handyside	Holder	21 June 1892	15 October 1892	116 days

35	Lawrence Grayson	Downer	15 October 1892	12 May 1893	209 days

No Holder	12 May 1893	16 June 1893	35 days

36	Frederick Holder	Liberalism	Kingston	16 June 1893	17 April 1894	305 days

37	John Jenkins	17 April 1894	1 December 1899	5 years, 228 days

n/a	Andrew Handyside	No Party	Solomon	1 December 1899	8 December 1899	7 days

38	Richard Foster	Holder	8 December 1899	15 May 1901	4 years, 209 days

Jenkins	15 May 1901	4 July 1904

No Holder	4 July 1904	1 March 1905	240 days

n/a	Richard Foster	No Party	Butler	1 March 1905	26 July 1905	147 days

39	Thomas Price	Labor	Price	26 July 1905	5 June 1909	3 years, 314 days

40	Laurence O'Loughlin	Farmers & Producers Union	Peake	5 June 1909	3 June 1910	363 days

41	John Verran	Labor	Verran	3 June 1910	17 February 1912	1 year, 259 days

42	Richard Butler	Liberal Union	Peake	17 February 1912	19 November 1914	2 years, 275 days

43	George Ritchie	19 November 1914	3 April 1915	135 days

44	Harry Jackson	Labor	Vaughan	3 April 1915	14 July 1917	2 years, 102 days

45	John Bice	Liberal Union	Peake	14 July 1917	15 May 1919	1 year, 305 days

46	George Ritchie	15 May 1919	8 April 1920	329 days

47	William Hague	Barwell	8 April 1920	3 November 1922	2 years, 209 days

48	Thomas Pascoe	3 November 1922	16 October 1923	1 year, 11 days

Liberal Federation	16 October 1923	14 November 1923

49	George Jenkins	14 November 1923	16 April 1924	154 days

50	Lionel Hill	Labor	Gunn	16 April 1924	28 August 1926	2 years, 134 days

51	John McInnes	Hill	28 August 1926	8 April 1927	223 days

52	Malcolm McIntosh	Liberal Federation	Butler	8 April 1927	17 April 1930	3 years, 9 days

n/a	John McInnes	Labor	Hill	17 April 1930	13 February 1933	3 years, 1 day

Richards	13 February 1933	18 April 1933	64 days

53	Herbert Hudd	Liberal & Country League	Butler	18 April 1933	8 April 1938	4 years, 355 days

n/a	Malcolm McIntosh	Playford	8 April 1938	14 December 1944	20 years, 36 days

Minister for Works	14 December 1944	14 May 1958

54	Colin Rowe	14 May 1958	25 June 1958	42 days

55	Glen Pearson	25 June 1958	10 March 1965	6 years, 258 days

56	Cyril Hutchens	Labor	Walsh	10 March 1965	1 June 1967	3 years, 38 days

Dunstan	1 June 1967	17 April 1968

57	John Coumbe	Liberal & Country League	Hall	17 April 1968	2 March 1970	1 year, 319 days

58	Allan Rodda	2 March 1970	2 June 1970	92 days

59	Des Corcoran	Labor	Dunstan	2 June 1970	15 February 1979	8 years, 286 days

Corcoran	15 February 1979	15 March 1979

60	John Wright	Minister for Public Works	15 March 1979	18 September 1979	187 days

61	Dean Brown	Liberal	Tonkin	18 September 1979	10 November 1982	3 years, 53 days

n/a	John Wright	Labor	Bannon	10 November 1982	19 February 1984	1 year, 101 days

62	Terry Hemmings	19 February 1984	14 December 1989	5 years, 298 days

63	Kym Mayes	14 December 1989	4 September 1992	2 years, 292 days

Arnold	4 September 1992	1 October 1992

Sentence(s)

The last holder of Commissioner of Public Works was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Arnold's government.
The last holder of Commissioner of Public Works was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Arnold's government.
The last holder was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Arnold.

final_sentence: The last holder of Commissioner of Public Works was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Arnold's government.
final_sentence: The last holder of Commissioner of Public Works was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Arnold's government.
final_sentence: The last holder was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Arnold.