[1] Smith remarried on 25 February 1915, to Catherine (Kate) Bint, again at St Mary's Church.

[1] Kate Bint was born in July 1892 at Tarata in Taranaki, some 18 kilometres (11 mi) by road west of Inglewood.

[4] He had a further three children from his second marriage: Raymond Sydney (1916–1944), Harry Allman (1918–1998), and Lorna Hazel (b.

[2] Smith successfully contested the Taranaki electorate in a by-election in 1918 (following the death of Henry Okey) as an Independent Labour candidate.

He was successful in 1928 and returned to Parliament for the United Party until he was defeated at the 1938 election by Labour candidate Fred Frost.

[12] Smith, who was known as Sid to his friends, died on 21 May 1943 at New Plymouth,[2] and was buried at Te Henui Cemetery.

All three of his sons were at the time serving overseas in World War II.