Minister of Forestry of New Zealand
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Incumbent Todd McClay since 27 November 2023
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Cabinet of New Zealand Executive Council
Reports to	Prime Minister of New Zealand
Appointer	Governor-General of New Zealand
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	1 May 1893
First holder	John McKenzie
Salary	$288,900[1]
Website	www.beehive.govt.nz

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The Minister of Forestry is a minister in the New Zealand Government. The portfolio was created in 1893 as Commissioner of Forests, being renamed Commissioner of State Forests in 1922 before finally having the title altered from Commissioner to Minister in 1949.

The present Minister is Todd McClay.^[2]

List of ministers

The following ministers held the office of Minister of Forestry.^[3]

Key

  Liberal   Reform   United   Labour   National   Progressive   NZ First

No.		Name	Portrait	Term of office		Prime Minister
	1	John McKenzie		1 May 1893	27 June 1900		Seddon
	2	Thomas Young Duncan		2 July 1900	21 June 1906
No separate appointments
	3	Thomas Mackenzie		6 January 1909	10 July 1912		Ward
							Mackenzie
	4	Francis Bell		10 July 1912	21 February 1922		Massey
	5	Heaton Rhodes		21 February 1922	18 January 1926
							Bell
							Coates
	6	Oswald Hawken		18 January 1926	26 November 1928
	7	Kenneth Williams		28 November 1928	10 December 1928
	8	William Taverner		19 December 1928	28 May 1930		Ward
	9	Alfred Ransom		28 May 1930	6 December 1935		Forbes
	10	Frank Langstone		6 December 1935	21 December 1942		Savage
							Fraser
	11	Jim Barclay		7 July 1943	18 October 1943
	12	Jerry Skinner		12 April 1944	13 December 1949
	13	Ernest Corbett		13 December 1949	26 November 1954		Holland
	14	Sidney Walter Smith		26 November 1954	26 September 1957
							Holyoake
	15	Geoff Gerard		26 September 1957	12 December 1957
	16	Eruera Tirikatene		12 December 1957	12 December 1960		Nash
	(15)	Geoff Gerard		12 December 1960	12 December 1966		Holyoake
	17	Duncan MacIntyre		12 December 1966	8 December 1972
							Marshall
	18	Colin Moyle		8 December 1972	12 December 1975		Kirk
							Rowling
	19	Venn Young		12 December 1975	11 December 1981		Muldoon
	20	Jonathan Elworthy		11 December 1981	26 July 1984
	21	Koro Wētere		26 July 1984	24 July 1987		Lange
	22	Peter Tapsell		24 July 1987	9 February 1990
							Palmer
	23	Jim Sutton		9 February 1990	2 November 1990
							Moore
	24	John Falloon		2 November 1990	16 December 1996		Bolger
	25	Lockwood Smith		16 December 1996	31 August 1998
							Shipley
	26	John Luxton		31 August 1998	10 December 1999
	27	Pete Hodgson		10 December 1999	15 August 2002		Clark
	(23)	Jim Sutton		15 August 2002	21 December 2004
	28	Jim Anderton		21 December 2004	19 November 2008
	29	David Carter		19 November 2008	14 December 2011		Key
2011–2017: No separate appointments
	30	Shane Jones		26 October 2017	6 November 2020		Ardern
	31	Stuart Nash		6 November 2020	28 March 2023
							Hipkins
	–	Megan Woods		28 March 2023	12 April 2023
	32	Peeni Henare		12 April 2023	27 November 2023
	33	Todd McClay		27 November 2023	present		Luxon