{"id":433150,"date":"2026-05-18T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433150\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:39:09","slug":"ray-chung-resigns-from-wellington-council-subcommittee-chair-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433150\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Chung resigns from Wellington council subcommittee chair role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little previously said he was contacted by Wellington City area commander Inspector Dean Silvester.<\/p>\n

The Herald understands the resignation relates to Chung\u2019s actions around the search for missing Karori man Philip Sutton. Sutton\u2019s body was later found at the mouth of Karori Stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neither Little nor police have publicly detailed the conduct referred to.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I get notified by a senior police officer of the conduct of a councillor, I\u2019ve got to take that seriously. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am and I\u2019m in the process of considering what steps, if any, are taken,\u201d the mayor said three weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\"LittleLittle earlier revealed he was contacted by Inspector Dean Silvester, about Chung. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell <\/p>\n

The Herald understands the concerns included Chung\u2019s interactions with the officer in charge of the search, and his attendance at a search location.<\/p>\n

Chung has only chaired two meetings of the sub-committee since being appointed by Little to lead the group in October last year.<\/p>\n

The outspoken second-term councillor has previously courted controversy for sending a widely condemned<\/a> email, detailing lewd sex and drugs rumours about former mayor Tory Whanau<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Little declined an interview request about the resignation, with a spokesperson saying he had nothing further to add.<\/p>\n

Chung has been contacted for comment, including on whether his resignation was linked to his conduct during the search.<\/p>\n

More to come<\/p>\n

Ethan Manera<\/a> is a Wellington-based journalist covering Wellington issues, local politics and business in the capital. He can be emailed at ethan.manera@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little previously said he was contacted by Wellington City area commander Inspector Dean Silvester. The Herald understands the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37432,63947,2199,5205,38290,71,42,43,22393,18994,17363,205,221805,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-433150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-chair","tag-chung","tag-city","tag-council","tag-councillor","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-ray","tag-resigned","tag-resigns","tag-role","tag-subcommittee","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}