Votes For Teen-age Soldiers Opposed
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, June 3.
The University of Auckland Students’ Association will publicly oppose the Government’s proposal to extend the franchise to servicemen under the age of 21 on active service overseas.
At a protest meeting at the university yesterday student feeling ran strongly against the proposal. The president of the Auckland Students’ Association (Mr R. G. Wood) said it would be hard to keep the political issue isolated from the emotional issues connected with any war. The Government’s proposal was first and foremost a political one, he said. Mr A. Galbraith, vice-presi-dent of the association, said
that if the Government was allowed to extend the privi lege of the vote to any special categories of people as it chooses, it would be a direct violation of the democratic ideals which were the basis of the political system in New Zealand.
The meeting decided that the student executive would ask members of Parliament to state their attitude towards the proposal and would seek assurance from both parties that all members would vote on the issue.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 3
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