Brian Robert Jeffares J.P. M.N.Z.M. is an elected member of Taranaki Regional Council and the Taranaki District Health Board, and was Mayor of Stratford, New Zealand

New Zealand

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, from 1998 to 2007. Jeffares has a background in building

Building

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 and real estate

Real estate

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, and also some radio

Radio

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work. Jeffares and his wife Diann have three children. Jeffares is chairman of the Taranaki Electricity Trust, the Stratford Health Trust and a former trustee on the Taranaki Rescue Helicopter Trust.

He is the second child of four. Older sister Susan, Younger brother Greg and Peter.

He was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (M.N.Z.M.) in the January 2008 New Years Honours for services to local body affairs and the community.