Harold Dickie

Harold Galt Dickie OBE (1874 – 15 August 1954) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party and from 1936 of the National Party.

The Honourable
Harold Dickie
OBE
Dickie in 1928
Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
In office
22 June 1950 – 31 December 1950
Personal details
Born
Harold Galt Dickie

1874
Waverley, New Zealand
Died15 August 1954 (aged 80)
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Spouse
Florence Mildred Law
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(m. 1943)​

Biography
New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1925–1928 22nd Patea Reform
1928–1931 23rd Patea Reform
1931–1935 24th Patea Reform
1935–1936 25th Patea Reform
1936–1938 Changed allegiance to: National
1938–1943 26th Patea National

Dickie was born at Waverley, Taranaki in 1874. He attended the local school and farmed in the area until World War I, when he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. After the war, he was instrumental in the development of the bobby calf industry.[1]

He represented the Patea electorate in Parliament from 1925 to 1943, when he retired.[2]

In 1950 he was appointed to the Legislative Council by National, as a member of the so-called suicide squad charged with voting for the abolition of the Council (or Upper House).[1][3]

In 1935, Dickie was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[4] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for public and local government services, in the 1953 New Year Honours.[5] The investiture was held almost a year later, on 29 December 1953, at the Auckland Town Hall and the honour was conferred by the Elizabeth II as part of her (and the Duke's) royal visit to New Zealand in 1953/54.[6]

In July or early August 1943, Dickie married Florence Mildred Law (née Dixon) in Rotorua. At that time, Dickie had already announced his retirement from parliament and at the end of the session later in the year, the couple moved to Rotorua.[7][8][9] His wife's late husband had been a bank manager and they had lived in Waverley for some time from where she knew Dickie.[10] He died in New Plymouth on 15 August 1954 aged 80.[11]

Notes
  1. Gustafson 1986, p. 307.
  2. Wilson 1985, p. 193.
  3. Wilson 1985, p. 152.
  4. "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 105. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  5. London Gazette (supplement), No. 39735, 30 December 1952. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  6. "Investiture held". The Press. Vol. LXXXIX, no. 27235. 30 December 1953. p. 6. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  7. "Untitled". Manawatū Standard. Vol. LXIII, no. 202. 26 July 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  8. "Women's world". Manawatu Standard. Vol. LXIII, no. 209. 3 August 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  9. "Political life". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. 80, no. 24648. 29 July 1943. p. 2. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  10. "Woman's world". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. 80, no. 24651. 2 August 1943. p. 5. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  11. "Obituary". The Press. Vol. XC, no. 27430. 17 August 1954. p. 7. Retrieved 20 January 2022.

References
  • Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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