Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 1. 1966.
Nash gives £500 for Race essay
Nash gives £500 for Race essay
Council Reporter
Sir Walter Nash has given £500 to the university to institute an essay prize.
The income from the money will provide a prize for the Victoria University student who submits "the best essay on a topical subject in the improving of relations between the races of the world."
The subject is to be determined by the Vice-Chancellor, or another appropriate person nominated by the University Council from among the university officers.
The donation represents donations to a fund established to recognise Sir Walter's long and devoted service to the Labour movement on the occasion of his retirement as leader of the Parliamentary Labour party. Subscriptions came from friends and supporters.
Sir Walter is the first honorary graduate of Victoria University of Wellington. An honorary doctorate of laws was conferred upon him in 1963.