The Minister's Career.

Walter Nash is English by birth and colonial by adoption. He is fifty-four years old, born and educated in Kidderminster. His school and college training was rounded off with a period in a law office, but industrial and commercial interests held stronger attractions than the law, and he was ten years in cycle manufacturing in Birmingham. Twenty-seven years ago he came out to New Zealand, and he represented English manufacturers here. Other business undertakings kept him busy for some years until political activities claimed all his energies, his special knowledge and his strong impulses in the direction of social betterment.