Christmas/New Year shutdown period
Our offices close at 12pm on 24 December and reopen 12 January 2026. Emails are not being monitored during this time.
For urgent issues, please phone 0800 746 467.
Christmas/New Year shutdown period - 25 December to 11 January
Over the Christmas and New Year period, most of our venues will be closed or have limited availability. We won't be monitoring bookings or emails during this time. Any enquiries recieved will be responded to after we reopen on 12 January 2026.
Thank you for your patience - we look forward to being in touch in the new year.
Contact the Mayor
Post
Office of the Mayor
Matamata-Piako District Council
PO Box 266
Te Aroha 3342
Phone
Please contact Debbie Burge (Mayor Ash Tanner's assistant) on 07 884 0060.
Email Mayor Ash Tanner
Please use the form below to email Mayor Ash. If you want to make a general enquiry about Council services, please use the contact us form, or if you want to make a complaint please use the complaints form.
If you are inviting the Mayor to an event, please include the date, time, location and an idea of who will be attending. It would also be helpful if you include the duration of the event, how long you wish the Mayor to attend, and what you would like from the Mayor (for example, just his attendance, or a speech, or other formalities such as a ribbon-cutting).
Addressing the Mayor
For official introductions, please use ‘Mayor Ash Tanner’ or 'Mayor of the Matamata-Piako District, Ash Tanner'. After the official introduction, he should be referred to as Mayor Ash.
Mayor Ash prefers not to use the honorific 'His Worship'.
