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

Biography

Dickie was born at

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in 1874. He attended the local school and farmed in the area until World War I, when he joined the

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. After the war, he was instrumental in the development of the bobby

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industry. He represented the

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electorate in

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from

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, when he retired. In 1950 he was appointed to the Legislative Council by

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, as a member of the so-called

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charged with voting for the abolition of the Council (or Upper House). In 1935, Dickie was awarded the

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. He was appointed an

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, for public and local government services, in the

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. The investiture was held almost a year later, on 29 December 1953, at the

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and the honour was conferred by the

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as part of her (and the

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's) royal visit to New Zealand in 1953/54. In July or early August 1943, Dickie married Florence Mildred Law () in

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. 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. His wife's late husband had been a bank manager and they had lived in Waverley for some time from where she knew Dickie. He died in

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on 15 August 1954 aged 80.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dickie, Harold 1874 births 1954 deaths Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council New Zealand National Party MPs Reform Party (New Zealand) MPs New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire New Zealand National Party MLCs New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives