Bob Owens (businessman)

Sir Bob Owens
22rd Mayor of Tauranga
In office
29 October 1968 – 25 October 1977
Preceded byDavid Mitchell
Succeeded byEric Faulkner
Mayor of Mount Maunganui
In office
1971–1974
Preceded byArthur Harris
Succeeded byKelvin O'Hara
Personal details
Born
Eric Lees Faulkner

(1921-08-26)26 August 1921
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died5 September 1999(1999-09-05) (aged 78)
Spouse(s)
Constance Joy Walker
(m. 1950, divorced)

Ximena Owens
Children4
RelativesMahé Drysdale (grandson)
Rose Keddell (granddaughter)
EducationManchester Grammar School
Liverpool Technical College
OccupationBusinessman

Sir Robert Arthur Owens KNZM CBE (26 August 1921 – 5 September 1999) was a New Zealand businessman and local politician. He served as mayor of both Tauranga and the nearby Mount Maunganui in the Bay of Plenty. He later moved from Mount Maunganui (which has the Port of Tauranga) to Auckland.[1][2] He was knighted in 1997.

Biography

Owens was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Liverpool Technical College. He was in the British merchant service from 1937 to 1946 when he arrived in New Zealand. He was chief officer holding a Master Mariner's Certificate and on Royal Navy transport tankers in the Mediterranean from 1942 to 1944.

He started his own shipping and stevedoring business in Tauranga in 1953. The Owens Group expanded into travel and insurance, covered 38 companies, and represented the Mitsui OSK Lines in New Zealand. The Owens Group was taken over by Mainfreight in 1993.

Owens was a Tauranga city councillor from 1962 to 1968, mayor of Tauranga from 1968 to 1977, and mayor of Mount Maunganui Borough from 1971 to 1974 (when he was defeated on the issue of amalgamation with Tauranga, which he favoured). He was on the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board from 1962 to 1988, director of the Port of Tauranga in 1988 and chairman of Air New Zealand from 1981 to 1984.[3]

Personal life

Owens married Constance Joy Walker in Auckland in 1950, and they went on to have four children.[4][5] Their grandchildren include rower Mahé Drysdale and field hockey player Rose Keddell.[4] The couple later divorced and Owens married Ximena. He died in Auckland on 5 September 1999.[6]

In the 2007 New Year Honours, Owens' first wife, Joy Owens, was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service.[7] She died in 2016.[4]

Honours

In the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours, Owens was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to transport industry, local government and community.[8] In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business and the community.[9] In 1996, he was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.[10]

References

  1. ^ Lambert, Max (1991) [1908]. Who's Who in New Zealand (12 ed.). Wellington: Reed. p. 483. ISBN 0790001306.
  2. ^ Jackson, Desney (1979). Notable New Zealanders: the Pictorial Who's Who. Auckland: Paul Hamlyn. ISBN 0-86832-020-X.
  3. ^ Alister Taylor (2001). "New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001 Edition". New Zealand Who's Who, Aotearoa. Alister Taylor Publishers: 1018. ISSN 1172-9813.
  4. ^ a b c Cousins, John (16 May 2016). "Former wife of Sir Bob Owens passes away, aged 91". Bay of Plenty Times. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  5. ^ Traue, J. E., ed. (1978). Who's Who in New Zealand (11th ed.). Wellington: Reed. p. 213. ISBN 0-589-01113-8.
  6. ^ MacBrayne, Rosaleen (7 September 1999). "Tauranga recalls knight with the common touch". New Zealand Herald.
  7. ^ "New Year honours list 2007". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 2006. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  8. ^ "No. 52564". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 15 June 1991. p. 30.
  9. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 1997". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 1997. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Past laureates". Business Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Tauranga
1968–1977
Succeeded by

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