APPENDIX 4

 


INITIAL INTERVALS FOR AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERS 

Prime Minister

Interval Between Initials (a)

Name Most Commonly Used
1901-03 2 Edmund Barton
1903-04
1905-08
1909-10		 2 Alfred Deakin
1904-04 19 Chris Watson
1904-05 10 George Reid
1908-09
1910-13		 4 Andrew Fisher
1913-14 5 Joseph Cook
1915-23 14 William Hughes (Billie Hughes - 5)
1923-29 15 Stanley Bruce
1929-32 8 James Scullin
1932-39 1 Joseph Lyons
1939-39 10 Earle Page
1939-41
1949-66		 4 Robert Menzies
1941-41 4 Arthur Fadden
1941-45 6 John Curtin
1945-49 0 Ben Chifley
1966-67 0 Harold Holt
1967-68 2 John McEwan
1968-71 2 John Gorton
1971-72 9 William McMahon
1972-75 15 Gough Whitlam
1975-83 6 Malcolm Fraser
1983-91 5 Bob Hawke
1991-95 4 Paul Keating
1996-2007 1 John Howard
2007-???? 6 Kevin Rudd

(a) This gives the number of letters in the alphabet between the first letter of the surname and first names.

 


INITIAL INTERVALS FOR NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTERS 

Forename

Surname

 Initial Interval Began End
Henry Sewell 10 7 May 1856 20 May 1856
William Fox 16 20 May 1856 2 June 1856
12 July 1861 6 August 1862
28 June 1869 10 September 1872
3 March 1873 8 April 1873
Edward William Stafford 13 2 June 1856 12 July 1861
16 October 1865 28 June 1869
10 September 1872 11 October 1872
Alfred Domett 2 6 August 1862 30 October 1863
Frederick Whitaker 16 30 October 1863 24 November 1864
21 April 1882 25 September 1883
Frederick Aloysius Weld 16 24 November 1864 16 October 1865
George Marsden Waterhouse 5 11 October 1872 3 March 1873
Julius Vogel 11 8 April 1873 6 July 1875
15 February 1876 1 September 1876
Daniel Pollen 11 6 July 1875 15 February 1876
 POST 1877
Harry Albert Atkinson 6 1 September 1876 13 September 1876
13 September 1876 13 October 1877
25 September 1883 16 August 1884
28 August 1884 3 September 1884
8 October 1887 24 January 1891
Sir George Grey 0 15 October 1877 8 October 1879
John Hall 1 8 October 1879 21 April 1882
Robert Stout 0 16 August 1884 28 August 1884
3 September 1884 8 October 1887
John Balance 7 24 January 1891 27 April 1893
Richard John Seddon 0 1 May 1893 10 June 1906
William Hall-Jones 14 21 June 1906 6 August 1906
Sir Joseph Geo Ward 12 6 August 1906 28 March 1912
10 December 1928 28 May 1930
Thomas Mackenzie 6 28 March 1912 10 July 1912
William Ferguson Massey 9 10 July 1912 12 August 1915
12 August 1915 25 August 1919
25 August 1919 10 May 1925
Sir Francis Henry D. Bell 3 14 May 1925 30 May 1925
Joseph Gordon Coates 6 30 May 1925 10 December 1928
George William Forbes 0 28 May 1930 22 September 1931
22 September 1931 6 December 1935
Michael Joseph Savage 5 6 December 1935 1 April 1940
Peter Fraser 9 1 April 1940 13 December 1949
Sir Sydney Geo. Holland 10 13 December 1949 20 September 1957
Keith Jacka Holyoake 2 20 September 1957 12 December 1957
12 December 1960 7 February 1972
Walter Nash 7 12 December 1957 12 December 1960
John Ross Marshall 2 7 February 1972 8 December 1972
Norman Eric Kirk 2 8 December 1972 31 August 1974
Wallace Edward Rowling 4 6 September 1974 12 December 1975
Sir Rob. David Muldoon 4 12 December 1975 14 July 1984
David Russell Lange 7 14 July 1984 8 August 1989
Geoffrey Palmer 7 8 August 1989 4 September 1990
Michael Moore 0 4 September 1990 2 November 1990
James Bolger 7 2 November 1990 December, 1997
Jennifer Mary Shipley 8 December 1997 November 1999
Helen Clark 4 November 1999 current