Trevor Young
Politician
1925 – 2012
Who was Trevor Young?
Trevor James Young, QSO, was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Young was born in Turua in 1925 and grew up in Cambridge and Blenheim. He did his secondary schooling at Wellington College.
In 1947, Young became a Lower Hutt city councillor at the age of 22. He represented the electorate of Hutt in Parliament from 1968 to 1978, and then the Eastern Hutt electorate from 1978 to 1990, when he was replaced by Paul Swain. In total he gave 43 years of service in local and national politics.
He was associated with the temperance movement.
In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Young was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.
On 13 May 2012, Young died at the age of 86.
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