Chen Werry

In 1927 he accepted a position working at the Registrar General's Office while studying at Victoria University before returning to the West Coast after two years and resumed his firewood work before falling ill. After recovering from the illness his godmother's husband got him a job at Smith and Smith's, a hardware retailer in Lower Hutt.

While boarding a room in Petone in the late-1920s he met Marjorie "Peggy" Hastings who was a member of the same tennis club as him who he later married in 1937.

Werry was opposed to the Labour Party leadership's controversial attempts to force the retirement of older age MPs.

He stated at the 1966 party conference that Nash should not be pressured to retire and that Labour was at risk of losing the seat if he were deselected.

[3] He worked with Percy Dowse (later Mayor of Lower Hutt) on the Southern Cross daily newspaper which lasted for five years.

As chairman of the council's waterworks committee he worked hard to convince fellow councillors and a skeptical public of the benefits.

While thinking himself able to fulfil the administrative duties of mayor he was dissuaded at the thought of the social aspect of hosting local functions.

Dick Werry was a company director and had previously been elected a member of the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Board.

Werry claimed McCahon's work was so talentless that he could "knock up something similar" in just his lunchbreak and would go on national television to prove it.

He appeared on TV 1 programme Good Day, dressed in an artist's smock with a beret, he painted his own work in front of art critic Professor John Roberts who stated it "wasn't a bad effort".