Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33 No. 11. 22 July 1970
Plunket medal
Plunket medal
The sixty-fourth Annual Plunket Medal Oratory Contest has been won by Ml H.S. Hancock, a student at Victoria.
The contest was held in the Concert Chambers at the Wellington Town Hall on 10 July.
The Subject of Mr Hancock's oration was Lyndon Johnson. Mr Hancock said that Johnson had been used as a scapegoat by those opposing the Vietnam War. He said that Johnson's critics, in damning him as a war monger, had ignored his social and rights legislation.
Second equal were Mr M. J. Montague and Mr Gerard Curry, who spoke on Martin Luther King and Adolf Hitler respectively.