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Harry Dudfield (12 May 1912 – 19 July 1987) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

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New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1951–1954 30th Gisborne National

Dudfield was born in Gisborne in 1912. He worked for A. and T. Burt until World War II, when he became a soldier and served in the Middle East, Italy and the Pacific. After the war, he worked for the Department of Health, first in Auckland and then in Tokomaru Bay. As a New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to contest the 1951 snap election for the Gisborne electorate.[1]

He won the Gisborne electorate from Labour's Reginald Keeling in the 1951 election, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954.[2] He told Parliament in 1952 that he doubted Communist claims that United Nations forces were using germ warfare in Korea.[3] In 1953, Dudfield was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[4]

After his time in Parliament, he worked as a health inspector in Rotorua and then in Tawa.[5] In 1955, he married Mona Lindsay at the Presbyterian Church in St Albans, Christchurch.[6] At the 1980 local-body elections Dudfield stood for the newly created Wellington Regional Council in the Tawa ward. He was defeated by Mervyn Kemp, the sitting Mayor of Tawa, by a large margin.[7] At the 1983 and 1986 elections he stood as a candidate for the Tawa Borough Council, but was unsuccessful on both occasions. On his first attempt he was the highest polling unsuccessful candidate. In his second attempt he polled less votes than any other candidate.[8][9]

Dudfield died on 19 July 1987 in Tawa,[10] and his wife died on 14 November 2010.[11]

References

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  1. ↑ "Harry Dudfield". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  2. ↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 194, 209.
  3. ↑ Dominion, 10 July 1952
  4. ↑ Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 412. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
  5. ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 308.
  6. ↑ "Untitled". Gisborne Photo News. 30 June 1955. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  7. ↑ "Winners and Losers". The Evening Post. 13 October 1980. p. 13.
  8. ↑ "Winners and Losers". The Evening Post. 10 October 1983. p. 8.
  9. ↑ "Local Body Polls 1986". The Evening Post. 13 October 1986. p. 6.
  10. ↑ "Cremation Details". Porirua City Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  11. ↑ "Mona Dudfield". Tributes Online Ltd. Retrieved 19 November 2012.

Further reading

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


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