Dick Dunn (boxer)

Dunn was born in the coal-mining town of Millerton on the South Island's West Coast.

In 1929 he moved his gymnasium from Wellington to the Hutt Valley and eventually set up in Moera’s Railway Workshops, starting off training 100 boys.

The gymnasium was open five nights a week and a local policeman used to bring trouble-making boys there in the hope it would give them an interest and to keep them off the streets.

Dunn still found time to compete in the ring and won the Hutt Valley and Wellington lightweight title in 1933, but retired shortly after.

Dunn was the manager of the New Zealand boxing team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston.