Commissioner of Public Works (South Australia)

Commissioner of Public Works
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Cabinet
Reports to	Parliament
Appointer	Governor of South Australia
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Formation	24 October 1856
First holder	Arthur Freeling
Final holder	Kym Mayes
Abolished	1 October 1992

The Commissioner of Public Works was a member of Cabinet of the Government of South Australia.

Originally created for the Finniss Ministry on 24 October 1856, there were 63 holders of the public works portfolio. It was known as Commissioner for Public Works for most of its existence, however since the Playford Government in the 1960s, it was known as Minister for Works or Public Works.

The longest holder was Malcolm McIntosh, a member of the Liberal Federation/Liberal and Country League and a minister in the Butler and Playford governments, who held the portfolio on two separate occasions for a total of 23 years and 45 days. The last holder was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Lynn Arnold's government. The title was abolished on 1 October 1992 and superseded by portfolio's for Infrastructure and Transport.

List of Commissioner of Public Works of South Australia

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

References

• Former Members of the Parliament of South Australia (Parliament of South Australia)