[4] Tom Field (1914–1919), MHR (Member of the House of Representatives) for Nelson, was a relative.

[6] He was closely associated with improvement to the railway services to his electorate, one train was known as "Field's Express", and the construction of the Tawa Flat tunnel.

He also led the campaign for the electrification of the Johnsonville service extended to Paekākāriki in 1940[4] and, 70 years later, to his electorate at Waikanae in February 2011.

With Charles Gray of Pukerua Bay he was largely responsible for the Centennial Highway on the narrow coastline south of Paekākāriki.

Field won the Otaki electorate in the Horowhenua District in 1900, but lost it to John Robertson of the Labour Party (who had been nominated by the flax-workers union) by 21 votes on the second ballot in 1911.