Trevor Young

Parliament of New Zealand
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

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

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]

In 1947, Young became a Lower Hutt city councillor at the age of 22. He represented the electorate of Hutt (previously occupied by Labour Prime Minister 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. In total he gave 43 years of service in local and national politics.^[3]

He was associated with the temperance (prohibition) movement.

In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Young was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.^[4]

He married Ailsa Hazel Anderson, the daughter of John James Anderson, on 28 August 1925. They had two sons.^[1] On 13 May 2012, Young died at the age of 86.^[2]

References

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. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
4. London Gazette (supplement), No. 51367, 10 June 1988. Retrieved 15 January 2013.