Appeal To Youth To Keep Labour Out

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31224, 23 November 1966, Page 22

Appeal To Youth To Keep Labour Out

“It is up to each and every one of us in the 21-44 age group to see that Labour does not become the Government,” the National Party candidate for Lyttelton (Mr G. P. A. de Latour) told an audience of about 60 in the Cashmere Masonic Hall last evening.

The meeting was advertised as “Accent on Youth” and

young people made up a large proportion of the attendance. “You may or may not know that 73 per cent of New Zealanders have yet to celebrate their 44th birthday,” said Mr de Latour, who is 42. “We folk in the 21-44 age group have the power in our hands to run this country simply through sheer weight of numbers when we cast our vote on Saturday.” Citing reasons why he supported the National Government, Mr de Latour said: “I want to see £77m spent on education this year—and I hope you do too, for the sake of our children and the future of our country. “I want a team of sane, farsighted men and women running New Zealand and developing it by sensible borrowing rather than taxing us beyond our capacity and killing our traditional initiative and enterprise.” Mr de Latour outlined the National Government’s record in providing education and housing for young people, and opportunities for suitablyqualified young men to farm. “Typically, Mr Kirk and his associates have been predicting nothing but gloom and sorrow for years as far as commercial fishing is concerned,” he said. “Once again he has been proved wrong by the National Government.” “It is up to you to decide whether you want a Government that oppresses its people with needless restrictions, keeps making erroneous predictions of depression and hardship and is gutlessly and selfishly inward-looking,” Mr de Latour said.