| George Walsh | |
| Constituency Mp: | Tauranga |
| Parliament: | New Zealand |
| Term Start: | 1 September 1951 |
| Term End: | 25 November 1972 |
| Predecessor: | Frederick Doidge |
| Successor: | Keith Allen |
| Birth Date: | 22 November 1899 |
| Birth Place: | Foxton, New Zealand |
| Party: | National |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
George Augustus Walsh (22 November 1899 – 15 May 1979) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
He was the oldest of six children of Gemima Howan and Augustus Walsh, who got married at Foxton around 1894.[1] He was educated at Foxton Primary School, Palmerston North Boys' High School and Wellington Technical College. He then became a farmer in Waikato and became involved with Federated Farmers. He was chairman of the meat and wool section and also on the executive of Federated Farmers from 1941 to 1957.
He joined the National Party and was on the party's dominion council and executive and Waikato divisional chairman from 1946 to 1951 before being selected as a parliamentary candidate. He represented the Tauranga electorate from the to 1972, when he retired.[2] At the 17 October 1962 meeting of the New Zealand Parliament's External Affairs Select Committee, Walsh was elected to chair the committee, on the motion of Defence Minister, Dean Eyre.[3]
In 1953, Walsh was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[4] He was appointed an Officier of the Order of the British Empire, for services to politics, in the 1973 New Year Honours.