Trevor Young

Trevor James Young QSO (28 August 1925 – 13 May 2012) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Trevor Young

QSO
Young in 1968
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Hutt
In office
3 August 1968 – 25 November 1978
Preceded byWalter Nash
Succeeded byseat abolished
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Eastern Hutt
In office
25 November 1978 – 15 August 1987
Preceded bynew constituency
Succeeded byPaul Swain
Personal details
Born(1925-08-28)28 August 1925
Turua, New Zealand
Died13 May 2012(2012-05-13) (aged 86)
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)
Ailsa Hazel Anderson
(
m. 1952)
Children2

Biography

Early life

Young was born in 1925 in Turua on the Hauraki Plains.[1] The son of Leslie Robert Young, he grew up in Cambridge and Blenheim,[2] and attended Wellington College.[1] He married Ailsa Hazel Anderson, the daughter of John James Anderson, in 1952. They had two sons.[1]

Young and his family settled in Naenae and he gained employment with the Public Trust. He had other jobs with the New Zealand Forest Service and Ministry of Defence before becoming the general superintendent of the New Zealand Alliance, an organisation opposed to the sale of alcoholic beverages.[3] He studied law studies part-time at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating in 1958 with an LLB.[2]

Political career
New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1968–1969 35th Hutt Labour
1969–1972 36th Hutt Labour
1972–1975 37th Hutt Labour
1975–1978 38th Hutt Labour
1978–1981 39th Eastern Hutt Labour
1981–1984 40th Eastern Hutt Labour
1984–1987 41st Eastern Hutt Labour
1987–1990 42nd Eastern Hutt Labour

Young joined the Labour Party and in 1947, Young became a Lower Hutt city councillor at the age of 22. He remained a member of the city council until 1968 when he resigned upon his election to Parliament.[2]

He represented the electorate of Hutt (previously occupied by Labour Prime Minister Sir Walter Nash) in Parliament from 1968 to 1978, and then the Eastern Hutt electorate from 1978 to 1990, when he was replaced by Paul Swain.[4] In total he gave 43 years of service in local and national politics. He was the chair of the New Zealand branch of Parliamentarians for Global Action.[3]

From 1974 until 1978 he was the Labour Party's junior whip.[5] He was Shadow Minister of Energy (1976–79), Shadow Minister of Tourism (1979–80) and Shadow Minister of Police (1983–84). From 1984 to 1990 he was the deputy Chairman of Committees.[3] According to Western Hutt MP John Terris Young was never afraid to speak his mind and his forthright manner and Christian values probably cost him political advancement.[2]

He was also associated with the temperance (prohibition) movement. He was likewise a member of Amnesty International and patron of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards from 1987 to 1995.[3]

Later life and death

Young studied to learn Swedish and became a director of Ansvar Insurance.[3] In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Young was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.[6]

He remained politically active and even at the age of 80 was delivering leaflets and canvassing votes at the 2011 election for Rimutaka Labour MP Chris Hipkins.[2]

On 13 May 2012, Young died at the age of 86.[2]

Notes
  1. Traue, James Edward (1978). Who's Who in New Zealand, 1978 (11th ed.). Wellington: Reed Publishing. p. 296.
  2. McLennan, Rosemary (18 May 2012). "Hundreds farewell Hutt MP Trevor Young". The Hutt News. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  3. Who' Who 1987, p. 103.
  4. Wilson 1985.
  5. Wilson 1985, pp. 281.
  6. London Gazette (supplement), No. 51367, 10 June 1988. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
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References
  • Who's Who in the New Zealand Parliament 1987. Wellington: Parliamentary Service. 1987.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Walter Nash		 Member of Parliament for Hutt
1968–1978		 Constituency abolished
Constituency established Member of Parliament for Eastern Hutt
1978–1990		 Succeeded by
Paul Swain
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