THE HON. W. NASH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1941, Page 2

THE HON. W. NASH

FIRST N.Z. MINISTER TO WASHINGTON

APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED.

MR D. J. WINTON COMING TO DOMINION.

(By Telegraph-Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, announced on Saturday evening that following the formal approval of his Majesty the King and the President, of the United States, the Hou Walter Nash had been appointed New Zealand Minister in Washington, and that Mr David J. Winton had been appointed United States Minister in New Zealand.

Mr David J. Winton comes from Minneapolis. He was born in 1897 and graduated from Princeton University in 1920, and has since been in the lumber business. He is a student of foreign affairs of many years’ standing, and has founded and directed various organisations in that field. He has also served on boards of educational and philanthropic institutions.

New Zealand’s first Minister to Washington, the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, who represents the Hutt electorate in the House of Representatives, was born in Kidderminster, England, in 1882, .and came to New Zealand in 1909. In 1920 he represented the Labour Party at the Inter-

national Labour Conference at Geneva. For some years before 1921 he was a member of the National Executive of the New Zealand Labour Party, and in that, year was elected to the national secretaryship. For many years he has been associated with the Church of England Men’s Society, and was at one time secretary of the society in the Wellington Diocese. He visited Great Britain, the Continent of Europe and America in 1936-37 on b.ehalf of the Government, and was one of the representatives of New Zealand at the Imperial Conference in 1937. Mr Nash visited the United Kingdom on an official mission again in 1939. During the absence abroad this year of the Prime Minister, Mr Nash was Act-ing-Prime Minister. He recently visited Australia to confer with Commonwealth Ministers on defence problems.