Former MP, councillor. Died aged 55.
Former Gisborne MP and city councillor Wayne Kimber has died in Waikato Hospital. He was 55.
Mr Kimber, who had been ill for a brief time, held the Gisborne seat for National from 1990 to 1993.
He contested the seat unsuccessfully for National in 1996.
Mr Kimber was town planner for the Gisborne City Council and was elected to the council, serving a three-year term from 1986 to 1989.
During Cyclone Bola he was part of the cyclone headquarters staff.
He did the research work that led to the establishment of the Greater East Cape Tourism Council, which later became the Eastland Tourism Council, then Tourism Eastland.
In 1997, he moved to Waipawa, where he took a senior executive position with the Central Hawkes Bay District Council, becoming acting chief executive.
After moving to Taranaki he was appointed chief executive of the Stratford District Council in 2001.
In 1985, he married Mandy Shaw in Gisborne and is survived by his wife, three children and two granddaughters.
- NZPA
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