Glen Evans

[1] In the wake of the Great Depression his father, an engineer, had gone to England to find work, and later served in the Colonial Service in Ceylon.

[1] At the 1971 local elections he stood as a candidate for the Lower Hutt City Council on mayor John Kennedy-Good's Combined Team ticket, but was unsuccessful.

He defeated Labour councillor Alister Abernethy with Bond placing a distant third for mayor and lost his council and energy board seat.

[8] His legacy achievements from the beginning of his mayoralty included flood protection schemes along the Hutt River, the replacement of the Ewen Bridge and a new ring-road system.

Evans argued that the plaza would attract people to the south end of High Street and assist smaller retailers compete with Queensgate Mall.

[10] Lower Hutt was the only place in New Zealand to still use polling booths rather than postal voting which Evans thought was a cause of comparatively low turnout.

[11] Financial issues continued mainly due to the escalating cost of the Queen's Drive car-parking plaza and by 1995 council debt was $102 million.

Not all debt issues were due to Evans' decision making such as the $13 million Seaview Marina project which was committed to by the Wellington Harbour Board prior to the 1989 amalgamation.

Despite criticism he continued to invest in improving infrastructure despite existing debt such as a new sewage and trade waste treatment plant in Seaview (estimated to cost $100 million by its completion in 2001).