Career
He competed for New Zealand at the 1952 Winter Olympics at Oslo. He came 77th in the Giant Slalom, despite a severely broken thumb. He had gone as a travelling reserve, and replaced the team captain Roy McKenzie, who withdrew because of injury.
The family said that it was a lifetime source of satisfaction to him that he beat all the Australians.
He also took part in tennis, yachting, game shooting and gliding. He played the violin then viola, and was a stalwart of the Oamaru operatic and concert orchestras.
He was educated at Oamaru South School, Waitaki Boys" High School and Lincoln College where he got a diploma.
