Background
Dick was born in 1915 at Dunedin.
Dick was born in 1915 at Dunedin.
He received his education at Otago Boys" High School. After school, he farmed at North Otago, Kurow and then Lilybank Station at the head of Lake Tekapo in the McKenzie Country. He bought Lilybank in 1937.
Thomas Hayman, who had been an Member of Parliament from 1949.
He was one of six candidates for the National nomination in this largely rural and safe National seat. He represented the Waitaki electorate to 1969, and then the Oamaru electorate from 1969 to 1972, when he was defeated.
Dick held various positions outside parliament. Foreign a time, he chaired the Tekapo Town Planning Committee, and he was a chairman of the Waitaki Lakes Committee.
He was chairman of the Mackenzie branch of Federated Farmers.
