Four Mile man: a short note on the life of Richard (Dick) Wright Willett.

R. W. (Dick) Willett was director of the New Zealand Geological Survey (NZGS) from 1956 to 1967, when he initiated an ambitious project to publish a new national geological map at a scale of 1:250,000 (the Four Mile project). It was completed within a decade, and subsequently used as a model by overseas geological surveys. In 1967 he was appointed assistant director-general of DSIR and subsequently served as the president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 1970 to 1974. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]